Alexander Filimonov (Cossack)

{{Infobox military person

| name = Aleksandr Filimonov

| native_name = Александр Филимонов

| birth_date = {{birth date|1866|9|14|df=yes}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|8|4|1866|9|14|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Grigoropolisskaya stanitsa, Kuban oblast, Russian Empire

| death_place = Osijek, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)

| image = Aleksandr Petrovich Filimonov.jpg

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| allegiance = {{flag|Russian Empire}}
{{flagicon|Kuban}} Kuban People's Republic
{{flagicon|Russian Empire}} White movement

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| serviceyears = 1884–1919

| rank = Colonel (Imperial Russian Army)
Ataman (Kuban Host)
Lieutenant general (White movement)

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Aleksandr Petrovich Filimonov ({{langx|ru|Александр Петрович Филимонов}}; {{OldStyleDate|14 September|1866|2 September}} – 4 August 1948) was the first Ataman of the anti-Bolshevik Kuban People's Republic from 1917 to 1919.{{cite book|author= Jonathan D. Smele|title= Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QwquCgAAQBAJ&q=Alexandre+Filimonov+ataman&pg=PA399|page=399|year=2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-442-25281-3}}{{cite book |last1=Kenez |first1=Peter |title=Red Attack, White Resistance; Civil War in South Russia 1918 |date=2004 |publisher=New Academia Publishing |location=Washington, DC |isbn=9780974493442 |pages=104-106,246,269}}

On 25 October 1917, he was elected Ataman. In December, in an effort to counter Bolshevism in the Kuban, Filimonov supported the formation of two volunteer units, one under Galaev and another under Viktor Pokrovsky.

He and his Kuban Cossacks joined the White Army during the Russian Civil War, but after disagreements with Anton Denikin, he stepped down as Ataman in December 1919, and emigrated to Yugoslavia.