Volunteer Army

Volunteer Army
Добровольческая армия
(pre-1918 Russian) Добровольческая армія
Volunteer Army ; Добровольческая армия ; (pre-1918 Russian) Добровольческая армія
	Insignia
Active	November 1917 – March 1920
Allegiance	VSYuR
Branch	Armed Forces of South Russia (from 8 January 1919)
Size	3,000 (December 1917); 3,348 (February 1918); 8,500–9,000 (June 1918); 40,000 (June 1919); 5,000 (March 1920)
Nickname(s)	White Guard
Engagements	Russian Civil War Southern Front Ice March; Battle of Tsaritsyn; ; Ukrainian War of Independence First Battle of Kiev; Battle of Peregonovka; Third Battle of Kiev; ;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Mikhail Drozdovsky †; Anton Denikin; Pyotr Vrangel; Mikhail Alekseyev; Lavr Kornilov †; Vladimir May-Mayevsky; Alexander Kutepov

The Volunteer Army (Russian: Добровольческая армия, romanized: Dobrovolcheskaya armiya; pre-1918 Russian: Добровольческая армія), abbreviated to Добрармия, Dobrarmiya (pre-1918 Russian: Добрармія), also known as the Southern White Army was a White Army active in South Russia during the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1920. The Volunteer Army fought against Bolsheviks and the Makhnovists on the Southern Front and the Ukrainian War of Independence. On 8 January 1919, it was made part of the Armed Forces of South Russia, becoming the largest force of the White movement until it was merged with the Army of Wrangel in March 1920.