Dakhov detachment

The Dakhov detachment was created with the aim of finally conquering the territory of the Western Caucasus and cleansing the territory of the local population of the Circassians. The Dakhov detachment was one of several large units of the Russian army that completed the conquest of the Western Caucasus. Parts of the detachment took an active part in the hostilities against the Circassians. villages in the foothills and mountains, destroyed crops, gardens, food supplies, fodder, stole cattle, cut logs, etc.

The Dakhov detachment got its name in the summer of 1862, after occupying the valley of the Dakho society, which was the key to the conquest of the most difficult part of the Western Caucasus - the most elevated and severe space on both sides of the watershed ridge, from the headwaters of the upper Pshish River to the east. The detachment retained this name at the special request of the chief until his dissolution. In the period from the occupation of Dakho to the advance on the southern slopes of the Caucasus Range, the detachment was engaged in cleaning up part of the mentioned space on the northern side of the watershed ridge, acting mainly against the upper Abadzekhs.

• Chief of Unit - Major General Gaiman
• Quartermaster of the detachment of the General Staff Captain Dukhovskaya
• duty staff officer captain Timofeev

The detachment consisted of 11 1/2 battalions and had 6 mountain guns.

• 3rd company of the Caucasian combat engineer number 2 of the 2nd battalion ^[1] - staff captain Biryukov
• 1st battalion of the Sevastopol regiment and with it the 5th rifle company - commander Lt. Col. Dove
• 2nd Battalion of the Sevastopol Regiment - Commander Major Kalinin
• 3rd battalion of the Sevastopol regiment - commander Lt. Col. Lutokhin
• 1st Battalion of the Kuban Regiment - Commander Major Elsner
• 21st Rifle Battalion - Commander Captain Prigar
• Combined-linear infantry No. 3rd battalion - commander Lt. Col. Kluki-von-Klugenau
• 1st battalion of the Black Sea Regiment ^[2] - commander Major Kremenetsky
• 2nd Battalion of the Black Sea Regiment - Commander Major Popov-Azotov
• 1st Battalion of the Taman Regiment - Commander of the Staff Captain Aristov
• 2nd Battalion of the Taman Regiment - Commander Major Podrez. Both battalions of the Taman regiment were under the command of the regiment commander Colonel Gabayev.
• 1st Battalion of the Baku Regiment - Commander Captain Merkulev
• 6 guns of the mountain battery of the 19th artillery brigade - battery commander Colonel Kazikov.

• Dah (river)
• Dakhovskaya

• Dukhovskoy Sergius. Materials for describing the war in the Western Caucasus. Dakhovsky detachment on the southern slope of the Caucasus Mountains in 1864. - SPb .: Type. Department of appanages, 1864. The text is reproduced from the publication: // Military collection . No. 12. 1864.