Alexander V. Golubintzev | |
Native Name: | Александр Васильевич Голубинцев |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Birth Date: | 28 February 1882 |
Birth Place: | Don Host Oblast |
Death Place: | Cleveland, Ohio |
Allegiance: | Russian |
Branch: | Army |
Rank: | Major General |
Commands: | 3rd Don Cavalry Regiment |
Battles: | Russo-Japanese War |
Alexander Vassilievich Golubintzev (Russian: Александр Васильевич Голубинцев; February 28, 1882 – April 19, 1963) was member of the Imperial Russian Army. He joined the army during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. He was a colonel in the army when the Russian Revolution of 1917 broke out in 1917. He became a Major General in the Don Army and the Armed Forces of South Russia and one of the leaders of the counterrevolutionary White movement.
At the start of World War I he was a colonel and commander of the 3rd Don Cavalry Regiment. as well a military commander and organizer of the 4st Cossack Volunteer Cavalry Regiment at the stanitsa Ust-Khoperskaya. He joined the March on Moscow of General Konstantin Mamontov as a commander of the 5th Don Cavalry Division and later fled in exile to Bulgaria, Germany, and the United States. He died on April 19, 1963, in Cleveland, Ohio.