Glass slide photograph of 1919 Russian Campaign in Murmansk area. On 17 September, 1918 Colonel J.E. Leckie and 92 volunteer officers and men left Leith, Scotland and arrived in Murmansk, Russia on 26 September, 1918. The North Russia Intervention, also known as the Northern Russian Expedition and the Murman Deployment, was part of the Allied Intervention in Russia after the October Revolution. The intervention brought about the involvement of foreign troops in the Russian Civil War on the side of the White movement. The northern campaign lasted from the final months of World War I in 1918 through to September1919.