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Bashkur Regiments
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The Bashkur Regiments are Imperial Guard Regiments. These are recruited from the Governor's palace guard on Ogul-37.[1]
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The name Bashkur might be inspired by the Bashkirs, a Turkic ethnic group, indigenous to Bashkortostan (today a republic in Russia in the area of the Ural mountains and during the Russian Civil War also called Bashkurdistan). As subjects of Imperial Russia there were Bashkir regiments fighting for Russia during the Napoleonic Wars who even went on to form part of the coalition forces that later occupied France. During the Russian Civil War Bashkirs fought on both the White and Red side and in World War II Bashkir soldiers also served in the Soviet Union's Red Army.