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Exactly one hundred years ago, on October 25, 1922, Vladivostok, the capital of the last Russian state, fellRussia was overrun by a communist sect. A year of fighting between the last units of the Russian army and the army of the USSR was still ahead, but the Russians no longer had their own, fully independent state and do not have it to this day.The peculiarity of the moment was that Russian nationalists were at the head of the perished state - the Priamursky state formation (Priamursky Zemsky Krai).It's accepted to consider the beginning of existence of the Priamursk state formation on May 26, 1921, when in Vladivostok the white rebels overthrew the local Bolshevik agents. Power was transferred to the Congress of Non-Socialist Organizations of the Far East. It elected the Provisional Priamurskoe Government, most of whose members were Russian nationalists (later its key participants were directly involved in the creation and financing of Russian national-fascist organizations in exile). Primorye continued the armed resistance to the Bolshevik hordes that had been going on in the country since October 1917. In the summer of 1922 the state was consolidated under the leadership of General Mikhail Konstantinovich Dieterikhs of the Russian Army, who reorganized the white armed forces into the Zemsky Riot for a final decisive confrontation with the advancing Bolsheviks.By September 1922 zemsky forces included: the Volga group of General V. M. Molchanov, the Siberian group of General I. S. Smolin, the Siberian Cossack Group of General Borodin, the Far Eastern Cossack Group of General F. L. Glebov, technical units and reserves. All in all the Zemsky Rat had 6,228 bayonets, 1,684 swords, 81 machine guns, 24 guns and 4 armored trains. These units were located along the Ussuriysk railroad in large settlements. The bulk of the troops were units of the former Far Eastern Army, which had previously been part of the armies of General V. O. Kappel and Ataman G. M. Semenov. In addition, the Russian Navy was commanded by Admiral Stark.The offensive operation against the Communist forces stationed in northern Primorye was launched on September 1, 1922, when the Volga Group began advancing northward along the Ussuri railroad. However, despite initial successes and the capture of several railroad stations, by September 16 the Russian forces were forced to retreat to their original positions and take up defenses. On October 4, because of the successful advance of the Communist armies the Zemsky Otto troops were forced to withdraw. On October 9 they left Spassky fortified area, after which the most combat-ready Volga group ceased to exist. During the subsequent fighting by October 16, Zemsky Rat suffered a military defeat in conditions of overwhelming superiority of the Communists in manpower and weapons. Russian troops withdrew to the border with Korea or sailed through the port of Vladivostok, where the Communist army entered on October 25, 1922. The original plan to create a new hearth of Russian statehood in Kamchatka, which Admiral Stark was preparing, failed due to the premature evacuation of the White garrison from the peninsula. The Russian army and some of the Communist opponents ended up in exile. Fighting itself against the armed forces of the USSR continued until the late fall of 1923 - an expeditionary detachment of the Russian army of 750 soldiers, shortly before the fall of Vladivostok, sailed with the task to begin the liberation of Yakutia from the Communists. The last organized armed Russian formations in the Far East remained in Chinese Shanghai (in the zone of international control) in the form of the Shanghai Russian regiment until 1943 (in the last two years - existed as the Russian auxiliary detachment of the Shanghai municipal police) and in the army of Manchuo until the fall of 1945.Always remember our heroes of the past! And the best memory of those will be the continuation of the Russian cause by us, the new generation of Russian nationalists. And, if Heaven will be favorable to us, and if we are worthy of the memory of our ancestors by our deeds, the day will come when Russians will be able to restore their state.