Main strike force of opponents of Soviet power became revolt of the Czechoslovak Corps POW, which occurred in May 1918. The revolt was provoked by the imperialists of the Entente. Rebels seized several towns in Siberia, Ural and Middle Volga — Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, Tomsk and Omsk. May 31 counterrevolutionaries captured Petropavlovsk in June — Akmola, Atbasar, Kostanay, Pavlodar, Semipalatinsk. As a result, the Urals, Akmola, Semipalatinsk and most Turgay region were in the hands of the white guards. In Siberia, was established the power of Siberian Provisional Government, headed by the Admiral Alexander Kolchak. By the spring of 1919 under his command at the front turned 130 thousand soldiers and officers.
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