Socio-demographic portrait of the officers of the 7th Kamyshlovsky (27th Kamyshlovsko-Orovaysky) mountain rifles regiment

Abstract

The paper analyzes the socio-demographic characteristics of the officers of the anti-Bolshevik formation in the Urals during the Civil War – the 7th Kamyshlovsky (27th Kamyshlovsko–Orovaysky) mountain rifles regiment. The research is based on unpublished sources from the collections of the Russian State Military Archive and the Russian State Military Historical Archive. Aspects such as age, combat experience, service life, education, marital status and religious affiliation of officers have been studied in detail. These data are compared with all-Russian trends, which made it possible to identify both common and specific features of the command staff of the considered formation of the white army. In the final part of the work, the collective portrait of a White Guard officer is recreated on the example considered, and the prospects for research in this direction are outlined.