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Kolchak, Kolçak or Kolčák is a surname from Turkish kolçak. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Kolchak (1874–1920), Russian naval commander, head of anti-Bolshevik White forces; Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Turkish actor, director and former footballer; Eşref Kolçak (1927–2019), Turkish actor
Admiral Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (Russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Колча́к; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1874 – 7 February 1920) was a Russian navy officer and polar explorer who led the White movement in the Russian Civil War.
The character originated in The Kolchak Papers, an unpublished novel written by Jeff Rice. [9] Here, a Las Vegas newspaper reporter named Carl Kolchak tracks down and defeats a serial killer who turns out to be the vampire Janos Skorzeny. [10] The novel gave Kolchak's birth name as "Karel", although he uses the anglicized version "Carl".
On television, McGavin portrayed the title character in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958–1959), and starred in Riverboat (1959–1961) and Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975). For his recurring role on the sitcom Murphy Brown, he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.
The Russian Government [1] (Government of the Russian State, Omsk government, Kolchak government) was the highest executive body in White-controlled parts of Russia during the Russian Civil War, formed as a result of the coup of 18 November 1918 in Omsk headed by Alexander Kolchak.
Kolchak did not personally participate in the coup, but was informed by the conspirators. [8] The next morning, the Council of Ministers met after the arrest of the Social Revolutionaries, the ministers decided on the need to assume full supreme power and then transfer it to an elected person who would lead on the principles of unity of command.
After Kolchak was handed over to Bolsheviks, Timiryova approached them and declared: "Arrest me. I cannot live without him." As a result, she was imprisoned in Irkutsk but was released after Kolchak's execution in February 1920. This, however, was only the beginning of a long string of her arrests, prison and labour camp sentences, and years of ...
The Russian Army (Russian: Русская армия, romanized: Russkaya armiya) [a] was the armed forces of the White movement, united on an all-Russian scale in 1919 under the sole formal command of Alexander Kolchak, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of all the armed forces of the Russian State.