Armed Forces of South Russia
The Armed Forces of South Russia (AFSR or SRAF) (Russian: Вооружённые силы Юга России, romanized: Vooruzhyonniye sily Yuga Rossii, VSYuR) were the unified military forces of the White movement in southern Russia between 1919 and 1920.
Volunteer Army recruitment poster saying "Why are you not in the army?"
Volunteer Army soldiers and officers next to a train in January 1918
Volunteer Army Mark V tank named "General Drozdovsky" in 1919
Volunteer Army armoured train "United Russia" on its way towards Tsaritsyn, June 1919
The White movement, also known as the Whites, was a loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks, also known as the Reds, in the Russian Civil War (1917–1923) and that to a lesser extent continued operating as militarized associations of rebels both outside and within Russian borders in Siberia until roughly World War II (1939–1945). The movement's military arm was the White Army, also known as the White Guard or White Guardsmen.
Female White officers in late 1917.
"Why aren't you in the army?", Volunteer Army recruiting poster during the Russian Civil War
Kornilov's Shock Detachment (8th Army), later became the Volunteer Army's elite Shock Regiment
In the summer of 1919, Denikin's troops captured Kharkiv