Bogatyr battalion
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The Bogatyr battalion (Russian: Батальон богатырей; Persian: گردان بهادران Gordān e Bahādorān) was a battalion made up of deserters from the Russian army formed in 19th-century Iran, primarily during and for a time after the era of the Russo-Iranian Wars.
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- Cronin, Stephanie. "ARMY iv a. Qajar Period". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- Батальон богатырей // Б (Blanc) порох — Бомба. — СПб. ; [М.] : Тип. т-ва Ivan Sytin, 1911. — С. 412. — (Военная энциклопедия : [в 18 т.] / Под ред. В. Ф. Новицкого [и др.] ; т. 4).
- Cronin, Stephanie, ed. (2013). Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions Since 1800. Routledge. pp. 149–150. ISBN 978-0415624336.
- Kibovskii, Aleksandr. BAGADERAN" - RUSSIAN DESERTERS IN THE PERSIAN ARMY, 1802-1839. (From Tseikhgauz, No. 5, 1996.)
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