Register of the Avenir Gennadievich Efimov papers
Finding aid prepared by Anatol Shmelev
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Title: Avenir Gennadievich Efimov papers
Date (inclusive): 1920-1971
Collection Number: 2000C21
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
3 microfilm reels
(0.45 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, orders, and photographs relating to the Russian Civil War. Includes correspondence with B. B. Filimonov.
Creator:
Efimov, Avenir Gennadievich
Creator:
Filimonov, B. B. (Boris Borisovich)
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000.
[Identification of item], Avenir Gennadievich Efimov papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library &
Archives.
Avenir Gennadievich Efimov was a colonel in the Russian army, the last commander of the remnants of the Izhevsk and Votkinsk
divisions of the White army in Siberia. These units were composed of workers of the factories of Izhevsk and Votkinsk in the
Ural mountains, who rose against the Soviets in 1918 and joined the White army.
Born on 19 October 1888, Efimov was educated in the Simbirsk Cadet School and graduated from the Nikolaevskoe inzhenernoe
uchilishche in 1910, receiving his commission as an officer in the 16th Sapper Battalion quartered in Kazan'.
During the First World War, he completed a course of studies at the General Staff Academy, following which he served at the
front in various staff posts until his demobilization on 25 February 1918. Back in Kazan' at the time of the anti-Soviet uprising
in the summer of 1918, he joined the People's Army (Narodnaia armiia), in which he served through its unification with the
Siberian Army. In February 1919 he was appointed chief of staff of the Izhevsk Rifle Brigade, and when the latter was upgraded
to a division, he received command of its cavalry regiment. He was appointed commander of the Izhevsk division in 1920, and
presided over its fusion with the fellow votkintsy to form the Izhevsk-Votkinsk brigade, which he commanded until its demobilization.
First in China, and then in San Francisco, California, where he settled, Efimov spent many years collecting documents for
a history of the izhevtsy and votkintsy, finally published posthumously as
Izhevtsy i votkintsy (Concord, CA, 1975) and now a bibliographic rarity. Efimov died on 25 April 1972 in San Francisco.
This collection contains the correspondence of Colonel A. G. Efimov with Boris Borisovich Filimonov, a participant and author
of several books on the Russian Civil War in Siberia and the Far East, 1918-1922.
The only writings in the collection are notes and drafts and the printed copy of Efimov's Izhevtsy i votkintsy, a history
of these two White army units.
Of particular importance are the documents of the period, which include governmental and army orders (Priamur government and
Zemskaia rat') service records, notes and related matter, found in the subject file.
Photographs (Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2:6, consisting of an album entitled "Khabarovskaia ekspeditsiia, 1921-1922,"
with depictions of the Civil War in the Far East), were not filmed and are not available at the Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
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 Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials and copyright to
them (with some exceptions) are the property of the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco. A transfer table indicating
corresponding box and reel numbers is available at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
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
Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920). Armii͡a
reel 1
reel 1
Primorskaia oblast', Russia. Vremennoe Priamurskoe pravitel'stvo. Orders
reel 3
Russia (Territory under White Armies) 1918-1920
Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 2 : 4-5. Armiia--Officers. Documents relating to the Civil War in the Maritime District,
consisting mainly of service records and questionnaires of individual participants, with some correspondence, recommendations,
orders, and related matter.