Turkestan Military Organization

Turkestan Military Organization
Turkestan Military Organization
Foundation	February 1918
Dissolved	January 1919
Active regions	Syrdarya, Fergana and Samarkand Oblasts of the Turkestan Territory of the Russian Empire
Ideology	Anti–Bolshevism
Battles and wars	Russian Civil War:; Osipov Revolt

The Turkestan Military Organization was an anti–Bolshevik military underground organization created in February 1918 in the Turkestan Territory of the Russian Empire, with its center in the city of Tashkent, a group of former officers of the Tsarist Army^[1] and a number of representatives of the Russian intelligentsia and officials of the former administration of the Territory with the aim of overthrowing Soviet Power in the province.

By the beginning of August 1918, the organization was renamed the Turkestan Union for the Struggle Against Bolshevism.

^ The first significant clash of officers of the Russian Army in Turkestan with the Soviets took place in February 1918, when a detachment of Colonel Ivan Zaitsev returning from Iran on February 14, 1918, collided with the Bolsheviks at Rostovtsevo Station. Ironically, it was in these battles that the successes of the armed detachments of the Bolsheviks under the command of former warrant officer Konstantin Osipov contributed to his further career, soon after which he became military commissar of the Autonomous Turkestan Republic.

[1] The first significant clash of officers of the Russian Army in Turkestan with the Soviets took place in February 1918, when a detachment of Colonel Ivan Zaitsev returning from Iran on February 14, 1918, collided with the Bolsheviks at Rostovtsevo Station. Ironically, it was in these battles that the successes of the armed detachments of the Bolsheviks under the command of former warrant officer Konstantin Osipov contributed to his further career, soon after which he became military commissar of the Autonomous Turkestan Republic.

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