Vasily Akimovich Kharlamov (January 1, 1875 – March 13, 1957) was a Russia

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n politician involved in the revolution

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 and civil war

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Kharlamov, of the Don Cossacks

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, was a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party

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 and was elected to all four State Dumas of the Russian Empire

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. After the 1917 February Revolution

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, the Russian Provisional Government

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 made him a chair of the ephemeral Special Transcaucasian Committee

Special Transcaucasian Committee

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 (Ozakom) in 1917. Later, Kharlamov headed the Government of the Union of South-Eastern Cossack troops, Caucasus Mountaineers and Free Peoples of the Steppe. During the Russian Civil War, he emerged as one of the leaders of the Don White movement

White movement

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. After the Bolshevik

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 victory in the war, Kharlamov fled abroad. He died in Buenos-Aires, Argentina

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, leaving a memoirs of the civil war years.