Allied Intervention in The Russian Civil War - Foreign Forces Throughout Russia

Foreign Forces Throughout Russia

Numbers of foreign soldiers who occupied the indicated regions of Russia:

  • 50,000 Czechoslovaks (along the Trans-Siberian railway)
  • 28,000 Japanese, later increased to 70,000 (in the Vladivostok region and north)
  • 40,000 British (in the Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok regions)
  • 17,000 Poles - mostly 5th Rifle Division (almost 12,000 men) in Siberia and 4th Rifle Division (ca. 4000 men) in "Southern Russia", also a single 400-men-strong battalion in Murmansk within the Anglo-Slavic Legion
  • 13,000 Americans (in the Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok regions)
  • 12,000 French and French colonial (mostly in the Arkhangelsk and Odessa regions)
  • 11,500 Estonians in northwestern Russia
  • 4,192 Canadians (in the Vladivostok region)
  • 1,100 Canadians (in the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions)
  • 41 Canadians (in the Baku Region)
  • 4,000 Serbs (in the Arkhangelsk region)
  • 4,000 Romanians (in the Arkhangelsk region)
  • 2,500 Italians (in the Arkhangelsk region and Siberia)
  • 2,300 Chinese (in the Vladivostok region)
  • 23,351 Greeks (part of I Army Corps under Maj. Gen. Konstantinos Nider, comprising 2nd and 13th Infantry Divisions, in the Crimea, and around Odessa and Kherson)
  • 150 Australians (mostly in the Arkhangelsk regions)

These numbers make a total of 255,503 foreign troops stationed in Russia during the civil war.

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