Register of the Anton Antonovich Dobkevich papers
Finding aid prepared by Anatol Shmelev
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Title: Anton Antonovich Dobkevich papers
Date (inclusive): 1898-1923
Collection Number: 2000C64
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
1 microfilm reel
(0.15 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, military documents, and photographs, relating to Russian military activities in World War I, the Russian Civil
War, and the Chinese Eastern Railway.
Creator:
Dobkevich, Anton Antonovich, 1892-
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Acquired.
[Identification of item], Anton Antonovich Dobkevich papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library &
Archives.
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
1892 January 18 (O. S.) | Born, Dubno, Volynskaia guberniia, Russia |
1910 | Graduated, Pervyi Moskovskii kadetskii korpus |
1912 | Sub-Lieutenant, 3-ii Zaamurskii pogranichnyi pekhotnyi polk |
Graduated, Kievskoe voennoe uchilishche | |
1915 | Transferred to 74 -yi Sibirskii oboznyi batalion |
Wounded and awarded St. George cross | |
Transferred, 6-oi Zaamurskii pogranichnyi pekhotnyi polk | |
1916 | Lieutenant, 2-ia Zaamurskaia zheleznodorozhnaia brigada |
1918 | Enlisted, Chinese Eastern Railway security forces |
Discharged from Russian army | |
1919 May-August | Chief of staff, 1-aia partizanskaia kavaleriiskaia brigada |
1919 August-1920 January | Senior adjutant, Otdel'naia Amurskaia kazach'ia brigada |
1920 July-1921 May | Agent, Chinese Eastern Railway internal security |
1922 | Arrived in the United States |
A. A. Dobkevich was born on 18 January 1894 (1892 according to other records) in the city of Dubno. Commissioned as an officer
upon graduation from the Kiev Military School in 1913 (1912) in the 3rd Zaamurskii pogranichnyi pekhotnyi polk, he transferred
to the 6th Zaamurskii pogranichnyi pekhotnyi polk upon its departure for the front in February 1915. On the Southwestern (Russian)
front of the First World War, he commanded the machine-gun detachment of an armored train and was appointed commander of the
armored car "Zaamurets" in June 1916. Following this, Dobkevich served with the 1st Zaamurskii Zheleznodorozhnyi polk until
his demobilization in 1918.
In April 1918, he was appointed deputy commander of the engineering section of the Russian forces of the extraterritorial
zone of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and thereafter served in various capacities, including commander of an armored train,
along the Chinese Eastern Railway until 1920. He emigrated to the United States in 1922, and died in California in January
1973.
The papers of A. A. Dobkevich relate primarily to his service in the First World War and Russian Civil War (in Ataman B. V.
Annenkov's unit, on an armored train, and in the security forces of the Chinese Eastern Railway). The collection also includes
a few family photographs, and his father's (Lt. Colonel A. F. Dobkevich) military service record (1914).
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and the Museum of Russian Culture. The grant
also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the
Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco, as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers
is available at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia
Russia. Armii͡a
Chinese Eastern Railway
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE 1898-1923
Family file
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CORRESPONDENCE 1915-1923
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MISCELLANY [1910s]
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PHOTOGRAPHS 1910s-1922
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