Mikhail Chernyayev, having reached the rank of …
Years: 1864 - 1864
Mikhail Chernyayev, having reached the rank of Major-General, makes his famous march with one thousand men across the steppes of Turkestan to Chimkent (Shymkent) in the Khanate of Kokand in 1864, to meet another Russian column from Semipalatinsk (Semey), in Siberia, in conjunction with which he successfully storms Chimkent, then ...
