Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War Powers to withdraw from North Russia and Siberia in 1920, though Japanese forces occupied parts of Siberia until 1922 and the northern half of Sakhalin until 1925. In 1917, Russia was in a state of political strife, and public support for World War I and the Tsar was dwindling. The country was on the brink of revolution. The February Revolution changed the course of the war; under intense political pressure, the Tsar abdicated and the Russian Provisional Government was formed, led initially by Georgy Lvov and later by Alexander Kerensky. The Provisional Government pledged to continue fighting the Germans on
14th Railway Facilities Protection Division NKVD 14th Railway Facilities Protection Division NKVD The 14th Division of the NKVD of the USSR for the Protection of railway facilities (Russian: 14-я дивизия войск НКВД СССР по охране железнодорожных сооружений) was a military formation of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War. It was a component of the NKVD Internal Troops. It was formed in accordance with the order of the NKVD number 00922 of 3 August 1944. From 1944 to 1946 it was placed under the Headquarters, Internal Troops, NKVD-MVD, Baltic Military District (Управление ВВ НКВД-МВД Прибалтийского округа). Alongside the division in the Baltic MD VV forces at