Ural Cossacks

Their main livelihood was fishery and the taxation on it was a major source of friction between the Cossacks and the state.

Traubenberg headed a commission which was to investigate and settle Cossack complaints and grievances, but his behaviour only antagonized them further.

During winter 1920, Ural Cossacks and their families, totaling about 15,000 people, headed south along the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea towards Fort Alexandrovsk.

[5] The distinguishing colour of the Ural Host was crimson/red; worn on the cap bands, epaulettes and wide trouser stripes of a dark blue uniform of the loose-fitting cut common to the Steppe Cossacks.

After 1907 a khaki-grey jacket was adopted for field uniform, worn with blue-grey breeches.

[7] The astrakhan hats and broad crimson/red trouser stripes of the peacetime uniform were however retained during World War I.