near Kruty, Ukraine 51°4′46.32″N32°9′33.48″E / 51.0795333°N 32.1593000°E / 51.0795333; 32.1593000
Result
Strategic Ukrainian victory
Capture of Kyiv by Soviet forces delayed
Conclusion of the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Massacre of students who defended the station from the bolshevik offensive[3]
Belligerents
Ukrainian People's Republic
Soviet Russia
Commanders and leaders
Averkiy Honcharenko [uk]
Mikhail Muravyov Pavel Yegorov[2] Reingold Berzin[2]
Units involved
The Kyiv Cadet auxiliary kurin and the company size element of Free Cossacks
Group of forces in battle with the counterrevolution in the South of Russia
Strength
Total: 600 soldiers
500 students 2 armored trains[2] ~100 cossacks
Total: 6,000 soldiers
1,000 men (strike force)[2] 2,000+ men (reserves)[2] 2 armored trains[2] artillery battery
Casualties and losses
less than 260[2] prisoners 36[2] (later 28 executed[2])
Heavy, about 300[4]
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The Battle of Kruty (Ukrainian: Бій під Крутами, Biy pid Krutamy) took place on January 29[1] or 30,[2] 1918, [2] near Kruty railway station (today the village of Pamiatne, Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast), about 130 kilometres (81 mi) northeast of Kyiv, Ukraine, which at the time was part of Nezhinsky Uyezd of Chernigov Governorate.
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^Михайло Михайлик: День 29 січня 1918 року. — Львів, 1932 (Ukrainian)
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