A year has passed since the death of the first military chieftain of the Orenburg Cossack army (1991-1993) by the Cossack colonel Vladimir Ivanovich Kosyanov.Vladimir Ivanovich was born on September 17, 1953 in a hereditary family of Cossacks, grew up in the village of Krasnokholmsky Orenburg region. He graduated from the Orenburg State Pedagogical Institute. After defending his dissertation, he was awarded the title of candidate of pedagogical sciences. He worked as a director of a secondary school, senior teacher, head of the department of scientific foundations of school management.
Vladimir Ivanovich was one of the organizers of the revival movement of the Orenburg Cossack army: since 1990 he was the chief of military duty (staff), since 1991 the chieftain of the regional army community. He participated in the preparation of the legislative framework for the rehabilitation of the Cossacks of Russia and legislative acts to give the Cossacks state status.From December 7 to December 8, 1991 at the tourist base of the village of Nezhinka (formerly the village of Nezhinskaya), which is 20 km away. from Orenburg the First big circle (congress) of the Orenburg Cossack army took place.
The congress was attended by over 400 delegates from Cossack communities and communities of the Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Sverdlovsk regions and Bashkiria. Cossack brothers came from the Kuibyshev and Kurgan regions, Kalmykia, Kuban, Don and other cities and regions of the former USSR.
The large military circle proclaimed the fact of the reconstruction of the Orenburg Cossack army within its historical limits, and also declared its succession right to the entire historical heritage of the Orenburg Cossacks. According to the results of the congress, the ataman of the First Division of the OKW, Vladimir Ivanovich Kosyanov, was elected ataman of the Orenburg Cossack Army. Duties of the military chieftain performed from 1991 to 1993.
Source: Official site of the Orenburg Separate Cossack Society "First Division of OKV"
