Great Siberian Ice March

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Great Siberian Ice March
Part of the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War
Retreat of the White Army (Nov. 1919 - March 1920).
Date 14 November 1919 - March 1920 Location East Central Siberia Result Red Army victory. Retreat of the White Army to Chita with heavy losses. Failure of the Red Army to encircle General Kappel’s Army.
Belligerents
Russian SFSR	Russian State
Commanders and leaders
Sergey Kamenev Vladimir Olderogge Genrich Eiche	Alexander Kolchak  Vladimir Kappel † Sergey Voytsekhovsky

The Great Siberian Ice March (Russian: Великий Сибирский Ледяной поход, romanized: Velikiy Sibirskiy Ledyanoy pokhod) was the name given to the 2000-kilometer winter retreat of Admiral Kolchak's Siberian Army from Omsk to Chita, in the course of the Russian Civil War between 14 November 1919 and March 1920.

General Vladimir Kappel, who was appointed to this position in mid-December 1919, led the retreat. After his death from pneumonia on 26 January 1920, General Sergey Voytsekhovsky took command of the troops. Admiral Kolchak travelled ahead by train to Irkutsk but was halted by Czechoslovak troops in December and handed over to Left SR troops in Irkutsk on 14 January, who executed him on 7 February 1920.