The Amur Cossack Host a Cossack host

Cossack host

A Cossack host or Cossack viysko was an administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia...

 created in the Amur

Amur

The Amur or Heilong Jiang is the world's tenth longest river, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China .-Course:...

 region and Primorye

Primorsky Krai

Primorsky Krai , informally known as Primorye , is a federal subject of Russia . Primorsky means "maritime" in Russian, hence the region is sometimes referred to as Maritime Province or Maritime Territory. Its administrative center is in the city of Vladivostok...

 in the 1850s on the basis of the Cossacks relocated from the Transbaikal

Transbaikal

Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia , or Dauria is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" Lake Baikal in Russia. The alternative name, Dauria, is derived from the ethnonym of the Daur people. It stretches for almost 1000 km from north to south from the Patomskoye Plateau and North...

 region and freed miners of Nerchinsk

Nerchinsk

Nerchinsk is a town and the administrative center of Nerchinsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located east of Lake Baikal, east of Chita, and about west of the Chinese border on the left bank of the Nercha River, above its confluence with the Shilka River, which flows into the Amur...

 region.
Their resettlement began in 1854. The first Cossack stanitsa

Stanitsa

Stanitsa is a village inside a Cossack host . Stanitsas were the primary unit of Cossack hosts.Historically, the stanitsa was a unit of economic and political organisation of the Cossack peoples primarily in the southern regions of the Russian Empire.Much of the land was held in common by the...

(Khabarovskaya) was created in 1858. A decree

Decree

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 on the creation of the Amur Cossack Host was issued in 1860. Initially, it subordinated to the military governor of the Amur Oblast

Oblast

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 and Primorye

Primorsky Krai

Primorsky Krai , informally known as Primorye , is a federal subject of Russia . Primorsky means "maritime" in Russian, hence the region is sometimes referred to as Maritime Province or Maritime Territory. Its administrative center is in the city of Vladivostok...

 (from 1879 and on, it would only subordinate to the governor

Governor

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 of the Amur Oblast). Then, the Amur Cossack army subordinated to the Governor-General

Governor-General

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 of the Amur region and commander

Commander

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 of the armies of the military district

Military district

Military districts are formations of a state's armed forces which are responsible for a certain area of territory. They are often more responsible for administrative than operational matters, and in countries with conscript forces, often handle parts of the conscription cycle.Navies have also used...

 of the Amur region (the latter was also the ataman

Ataman

Ataman was a commander title of the Ukrainian People's Army, Cossack, and haidamak leaders, who were in essence the Cossacks...

 of the Amur and Ussuri Cossack Hosts). The headquarters

Headquarters

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 of the Amur Cossack Host was located in Blagoveshchensk

Blagoveshchensk

Blagoveshchensk is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: -Early history of the region:The early residents of both sides of the Amur in the region of today's Blagoveshchensk were the Daurs and Duchers...

.

The Amur Cossack Host patrolled the borders along the Amur River and Ussuri River

Ussuri River

The Usuri ula is a river in the south of the Outer Manchuria and east of Inner Manchuria . It rises in the Sikhote-Alin range, flowing north, forming part of the Sino-Russian border based on the Sino-Russian Convention of Peking in 1860, until it joins the Amur River at Khabarovsk . It is...

 (In 1889, a separate Ussuri Cossack Host was created for patrolling the Ussuri.) It also staffed the Amur-Ussuri flotilla, created in 1897. The Amur Cossacks possessed 5,8 million desyatinas of land (64,000 km²). The Cossack population (120 settlements

Town

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) numbered 49,200 people. In times of peace, the Amur Cossack Host supplied 1 cavalry regiment (4 sotnyas) and 1 platoon

Platoon

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 of guards, in times of war - 2 cavalry regiments, 1 platoon of guards, 5 special and 1 reserve sotnyas and 1 battalion

Battalion

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 (the total of 3,600 men). In 1911 their parade uniform comprised a dark green chekmen (frock coat), high fleece hat and grey blue breeches. Trouser stripes, hat top and epaulettes were yellow.
The Amur Cossack Host took part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion

Boxer Rebellion

The Boxer Rebellion, also called the Boxer Uprising by some historians or the Righteous Harmony Society Movement in northern China, was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" , or "Righteous Fists of Harmony" or "Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists" , in China between...

 in China

China

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, Russo-Japanese War

Russo-Japanese War

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 of 1904-1905 and World War I

World War I

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. During the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

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, a significant number of the Amur Cossacks fought on the side of the Soviets.