The use of Czech sources in the study of the events of the Civil War in Siberia (on the example of the punitive action of the White Czechs in the Altai village of Koshelevo on August 17, 1919)
The article is devoted to one of the episodes of the Civil War in Siberia during the reign of Kolchak power in the region, namely, the punitive action of the Czech-Polish military unit against the local partisans of the village of Koshelevo, Borovlyanskaya volost, Barnaul district on August 17, 1919. The facts of the events are based on the materials of Czech sources - memoirs of former legionnaires, articles by Czech military historians, data from the Central Military Archive of the Czech Republic. Based on the results of the study, a list of Czech officers was compiled, directly involved in the deaths of 12 residents of the village of Koshelevo. The article discusses the possible reasons for the punitive raid, the course of the operation, the features of the partisan struggle, the fate of the deceased priest. There is also a list of the dead koshelevs, whose names in 2019 were immortalized on the monument erected in Koshelevo with the participation of the authors.