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Topic: Voisko


In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

  
  Cossacks - LoveToKnow 1911
The primary unit of this organization is the stanitsa, or village, which holds its land as a commune, and may allow persons who are not Cossacks (excepting Jews) to settle on this land for payment of a certain rent.
The central administration, at the Ministry of War, is composed of representatives of each voisko, who discuss the proposals of all new laws affecting the Cossacks.
In time of war the ten Cossack voiskos are bound to supply 890 mounted sotnias or squadrons (of 125 men each), 108 infantry sotnias or companies (same number), and 236 guns, representing 4267 officers and 177,100 men, with 170,695 horses.
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 taganrogcity.com | Taganrog City Council (Duma)
Alexander III put a final point on the mayorship of the city of Taganrog after his visit to Novocherkassk in 1887.
By the highest Decree of January 1, 1888 both Rostov and Taganrog were included into Don Voisko Province (Don Cossack Host).
After inclusion of Taganrog into Don Voisko Province, all solutions of Duma needed approval by the Don Cossack Host’s ataman.
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The officers are supplied in the usual way by the military schools, in which all Cossack voiskos have their own vacancies, or are non-commissioned Cossack officers, with officers' grades.
The income which the Cossack voiskos receive from the lands which they rent to different persons, also from various sources (trade patents, rents of shops, fisheries, permits of gold-digging, andc.), as also from the subsidiesthey receive from the government (about £712,500 in' 1893), is used to cover all the expenses of state and local administration.
In time of war the ten Cossack voiskos are bound to supply 890 mounted sotnias or squadrons (of 125 men each), zo8 infantry sotnias or companies (same number), and 236 guns, representing 4267 officers and 177,100 men, with 170,695 horses.
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 Cossack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
They constituted ten separate voiskos, settled along the frontiers: Don, Kuban, Terek, Astrakhan, Ural, Orenburg, Siberian, Semiryechensk, Amur, and Ussuri voiskos.
The officers were supplied by the military schools, in which all Cossack voiskos have their own vacancies, or are non-commissioned Cossack officers, with officers' grades.
In time of war the ten Cossack voiskos are bound to supply 890 mounted sotnias or squadrons (of 125 men each), 108 infantry sotnias or companies (same number), and 236 guns, representing 4267 officers and 177,100 men, with 170,695 horses.
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 The Napoleonic Association
The constant efforts of the Don Voisko was the main reason for the extermination of the enemy depriving him of his cavalry and artillery horses so consequently his cannon." The Cossacks captured during the Patriotic War 500 guns and 50,000 enemy soldiers.
The Cossack Voisko (hosts) was organised into 500 man Polks (cavalry regiments.) The Don Cossacks named their Polks after their commanders, whereas the others named them according to their nationality or district.
In 1788, the foot and mounted Cossacks of the Zaporogian Voisko (host) joined the Army of Prince Potemkin under the title of "the troops of the devoted Cossacks of the Black Sea." The Black Sea Leib-Garde Sotnia was created in May 1811.
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 FAQs about Russian Cossacks from Kuban - Krasnodar Region
In the Russian Empire the Cossacks constituted ten separate voiskos, settled along the frontiers: the Don, Kuban, Terek, Astrakhan, Ural, Orenburg, Siberian, Semiryechensk, Amur, and Ussuri voiskos.
The officers came from the military schools, in which all Cossack voiskos had their own vacancies, or were non-commissioned Cossack officers, with officers' grades.
The income which the Cossack voiskos received from the lands (which they rented to different persons), also from various sources (trade patents, rents of shops, fisheries, permits for gold-digging, etc.), as also from the subsidies they received from the government (about Ј712,500 in 1893), went to cover all the expenses of state and local administration.
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 Russian Touring, Russian Travel, Russian Women
The primary unit of this organization was the stanitsa, or village, which holds its land as a commune, and may allow persons who are not Cossacks to settle on this land for payment of a certain rent.
The officers were supplied by the military schools, in which all Cossack voiskos have their own vacancies, or are non-commissioned Cossack officers, with officers' grades.
This land was divided between the stanitsas, at the rate of 81 acres per each soul, with special grants to officers (personal to some of them, in lieu of pensions), and leaving about one-third of the land as a reserve for the future.
www.cossackconnection.com /cossack.htm   (834 words)

  
 Footnotes to History- K and L
The Voisko's offer was too little, too late; the workers declared for the Bolsheviks, and the Kuban government was encircled and trapped at Ekaterinodar.
Heavily outnumbered, the Voisko withdrew in March of 1918.
Tensions between the Voisko and Denikin's putative Russian government ran high, aggravated by a Cossack attempt to reform an independent army in early 1919.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Anything is apparently considered good enough to beat Japan, and the cavalry is composed almost entirely of Cossacks of the Eastern voiskos, who have no serious experience of war or campaigning.
To form General Simonoff's independent division of Siberian Cossacks, which has disappeared since its mobilisation, there were only 18 squadrons existing in the Siberian military district last February, and these have expanded into six regiments, the deficiency in officers being made good by volunteers from the Russian dragoons.
The greater part of the rest of the Cossacks comes from the Trans-Baikal voisko, which possessed 24 squadrons, or four regiments, before the war.
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 Russian Patch
Don Cossack Voisko (Don Cossack Host) is the name of a frontier military organisation of Don Cossacks (cossack host) in Imperial Russia since the end of the 16th century.
It occupied the territory known as Don Voisko Province.
It was disbanded on Russian soil in 1918, after the Russian Revolution, but the Don cossacks in the White Army and those who emigrated abroad continued to preserve traditions of their host...
www.russianpatches.com /military_patche_moreinfo.php?gid=310   (122 words)

  
 Footnotes to History- D to F
Don Voisko- The Don Voisko (or Host) took control of the Don region after the collapse of the Don Soviet Republic.
The Voisko government was dominated by conservative Cossack elements.
On September 28, the Krug adopted a constitution; the constitution contained the declaration of the Voisko's independence.
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 Kuban Cossacks Association, Inc., Library & Museum
Many Cossacks of The Voisko, and those who have rediscovered their heritage, had and have family members who were and still are active participants of the organization.
Also, many senior members of the Voisko remember the days when the Assoociation was located in New York and are eager to pass down first hand historical information to future generations.
Sources of funds for the Association; for maintaining the library and museum, are obtained through fund raising events; such as the annual picnic, and individual member donations.
www.kubancossackvoisko.com   (541 words)

  
 Pakistan encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Pakistan politics and officials, Pakistan History. Travel to ...
The Kuban Cossack Host (Kuban Cossack Voisko, Кубанское казачье войско) was formed in 1860 from Black Sea Cossack Host and part of Caucasus Line Cossack Host (Кавказское линейное казачье войско).
The Cossacks traditions were kept alive even though officially the postwar USSR refused to recognise their existence.
The Cossacks have actively participated in some of the more abrupt political developments following the dissolution of the Soviet Union: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Crimea, Kosovo and Transdnestr are just some of the places that Cossacks have been seen.
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 The Cossack Era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 1553–1554, Dmytro Vyshnevetsky nicknamed “Baida” unite some groups of Cossacks together and built a fort on the island of Mala Khortytsia below the Dnipro rapids which laid to the foundation of the Zaporozhian Sich, the base of Ukrainian Cossackdom.
Together they organized very strong military army called- Voisko Zaporuzhshoe that was led by the hetman or the ataman, and neither Turkish nor Polish (their constant enemies) could subjugate them.
Zaporozhskaya Sich represented the symbol of protest against any oppression and for many decades was not only military but also administrative, economic and political centre.
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 Don Cossacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By the end of the century they were granted certain privileges in exchange for frontier military service as the Don Cossack Voisko.
Since 1786 the territory was officially called Don Voisko Lands, and was renamed Don Voisko Province (Russian: Oblast’ Voyska Donskogo) in 1870.
This page was last modified 14:23, 1 July 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Cossacks   (106 words)

  
 Date: 11/7/97
In his generous spirit, the Monarch graciously conceded to the Crimeans’ zeal in their letter of 8 February, and he ordered Duke De Richelieu to form a local force [zemskoe voisko] in Taurica Province, separate from the other militia.
In accordance with their heartfelt desire a special mounted force was established, which by an ukase of 24 January, 1808, was sent to serve on the Prussian border to maintain cordon lines along with Don cossack regiments.
This force [voisko] consisted of four horse regiments: the Simferopol, Perekop, Yevpatoria, and Theodosia.
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 The Tyrkova-Williams Collection
Russia, Civil War Governments: 1917-1922: Vsevelikoe voisko Donskoe Bol'shoi Voiskovoi Krug.
Russia, Civil War Governments: 1917-1922: Vsevelikoe voisko Donskoe Voiskovoi krug Komissiia zakonodatel'nykh predpolozhenii.
Russia, Civil War Governments: 1917-1922: Armiia Vsevelikoe Voisko Donskoe Voiskovoi Krug.
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 Voisko joku ostaa mun puolesta sen seriaalin ?
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 ALEKSANDR VASILEVICH VISKOVATOV organization 19 1825-55 russian army
One must also mention the Neplyuevskoe Voennoe Uchilishche [Neplyuev Military School] and the Gvardeiskaya Bereitorskaya Shkola [Guards Riding School].
10 i 11; Stavropolskoe-Kalmytskoe voisko [Stavropol Kalmuck Host]; Meshcheryanskoe voisko [Meshcheryak Host]; 1-i i 2-i Teptyarskie polki [1st and 2nd Teptyar Regiments]; Sibirskoe Lineinoe voisko [Siberian Line Host], with Konno-Artilleriiskiya roty N
In conclusion there were also the Quartermaster Section [Kvartirmeisterskaya chast'], the Corps of Topographers [Korpus Topografov], the Feldjäger Corps [Feldyegerskii Korpus], the Composite Infantry Battalion [Svodnyi Pekhotnyi batalion], and the Composite Artillery Company [Svodnaya Artilleriiskaya rota].
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1918
September 11 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship, their last World Series win until 2004.
September 28 - Don Voisko adopts a constitution including declaration of independence.
September 29 - Bulgaria requests an armistice in World War I. October
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