The Gold of Kolchak: Siberia's Lost White Treasure

In 1918, Admiral Alexander Kolchak seized half of Russia's gold reserves in Kazan, a staggering 500 tons of bullion. This episode tracks that treasure's epic journey across Siberia as Kolchak's White Army collapsed under Red pressure. We follow the gold from Kazan to Omsk, then east along the Trans-Siberian Railway, guarded by Czech legionnaires and White officers. As Kolchak lost ground, the gold became a burden: slow, heavy, impossible to hide. When he was betrayed to the Bolsheviks in Irkutsk in 1920, only a fraction of the gold remained. The rest vanished into Siberian legend — some buried, some stolen, some lost in Lake Baikal. This story of a dying regime's last asset reveals how material resources shaped the Russian Civil War's chaotic end, and why rumors of hidden tsarist gold still haunt Siberia today.

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