Vladimir Sidorin  Vladimir Ilyich Sidorin (February 3, 1882 -1943) was an officer in the Russian Imperial Army and Commander of the Don Army between February 1919 and April 1920 during the Russian Civil War. He was born in the village of Esaulovskaya in the 2nd Don district of the Don Cossack Region. His father was Ilya Sidorin, an officer of the Don Army and his uncle was General Leonty Sidorin, shot by the Bolsheviks in February 1918. Vladimir Sidorin participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. From November 26, 1912 to 1914 he was senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 3rd Caucasus Army Corps. During the First World War, he first served as an officer at the headquarters of the 21st Infantry Division. In 1915 he became Chief of staff of the 2nd militia division and from July 12 of the 102nd Infantry Division. He was Deputy Chief of Staff of the Second Army from March 1916 to March 1917 and Chief of Staff of the 3rd Caucasus Army Corps from April to June 1917, when he was put at the disposal of the Chief of Staff of the Western Front. After the October revolution, he returned to the Don and took part in the White movement. First he joined the Cossack detachment of Novocherkassk and participated in the battle for Rostov in November-December 1917. Then he became Chief of Staff of the Don Cossack Army, under command of General Anatoly Nazarov. Later he was also Chief of Staff under General Pyotr Popov (April 25-May 18, 1918), when he took part in the Steppe March. From May 12, 1918 to February 2, 1919, he was in the reserve of the Don Army. On February 15, 1919 he succeeded General Svyatoslav Denisov as Commander of the Don Army. He held the post until March 27, 1920, when the Don Army was renamed the Don Corps, of which he also became commander. After conducting many battles against the Red Army, he participated in the disastrous Evacuation of Novorossiysk. On April 18, 1920, shortly after his arrival from Novorossiysk to Evpatoria in the Crimea, he was brought to trial along with Lieutenant-General Kelchevsky, chief of staff of the Don Army. He was charged for separatist speeches, his support for the striving of the Don Cossacks to separate the Don from Russia and the spontaneous withdrawal of the Don Corps to Novorossiysk in the winter of 1919-1920.