Bashkir Military Council

In December 1917, the 3rd All-Bashkir Constituent Assembly approved a resolution on the organization of the police and the armed forces. The main task of the latter was to protect the autonomous Bashkurdistan . For the control of the armed forces it was assumed the creation of the Central Military Council and the General Headquarters of the Bashkir troops.

The Bashkir Military Council was created by Farman (order) of the Bashkir government on June 12, 1918 in the city of Chelyabinsk to control the Bashkir army .

According to the farmans (orders) of the Bashkir Military Council, the following divisions emerged as part of the headquarters of the troops: front-line, information, artillery, engineering, mobilization, economic, quartermaster, sanitary, military training and a special division of volunteer detachments. Military medical and military investigation commissions were created.

From mid-July 1918, the council served as the headquarters of the Bashkir army. To avoid complete subordination to the Provisional Siberian Government and to receive weapons, uniforms, money and food from an additional source, the Bashkir Military Council obtained from the Committee of the members of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly the inclusion of the Bashkir separate corps into the People's Army . From Komuch the Bashkir army were allocated 10 machine guns, 1 thousand rifles and 5 thousand sets of uniforms.

Since August 1918, the location of the Bashkir Military Council is the city of Orenburg . On July 13, 1918, by order of the council, a Commission was created to develop a uniform uniform for the Bashkir units ^[1] . On August 28, the Bashkir Military Council introduced insignia, and on September 10, 1918, a uniform uniform for the servicemen of the Bashkir army.

On October 11, 1918, the Government of Bashkurdistan signed a decree on the creation of the Bashkir troop administration. The administration was engaged in the organization and organization of the Bashkir Army. To him also transferred the officers and financial resources of the army. It consisted of the administrative, judicial, mobilization and economic departments. The headquarters of a separate Bashkir corps was established, and the Bashkir Military Council was left as an advisory body to the government of the republic ^[2] . At the end of February 1919, the Council dissolved itself.

Manual

The chairman of the Bashkir Military Council and the head of the Military Directorate was a member of the Government of Bashkurdistan, the head of the military department.

At the beginning A.Gabitov was the chairman of the council, G. Tagan was his deputy, and U. Teregulov was the secretary of the council ^[3] . Later, Ahmed-Zaki Validi was elected chairman, lieutenant A. Gabitov became his deputy for the military council, A. Irkabayev , T. Gismati, warrant officers G. Mukhamedyarov and G. Tagan became members of the council, ensign H. Teregulov ^{[4 ]} . In July 1918, Ildarkhan Mutin became Deputy Chairman of the Bashkir Military Council, and in August he was appointed Acting Chairman of the Bashkir Military Council.

Military Commissariat of Bashkortostan

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