Southern Front of the Russian Civil War information
Military theatre of the Russian Civil War
Southern Front
Part of the Russian Civil War
Date
7 November 1917 - April 1921
Location
Crimea, Ukraine, Don, Kuban, Caucasus
Result
Bolshevik victory
Belligerents
South Russia Don Republic Crimea Kuban Republic
Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR Red Estonia[1]
Makhnovshchina
Ankara Government
Ukraine Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan
Commanders and leaders
Lavr Kornilov Anton Denikin Pyotr Wrangel Mikhail Alexeyev Peter Krasnov Andrei Shkuro Konstantin Mamontov
Mikhail Tukhachevsky Semyon Budyonny Mikhail Frunze Kliment Voroshilov Joseph Stalin
Nestor Makhno
Kâzım Karabekir
Pavlo Skoropadsky Symon Petliura Noe Zhordania Parmen Chichinadze Alexander Khatisian Drastamat Kanayan Nasib bey Yusifbeyli Samad bey Mehmandarov
Units involved
Volunteer Army
Don Army
Caucasus Army
Wrangel's Forces
Red Army
Estonian Red Army[1]
Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine
Turkish Land Forces
Ukrainian People's Army Georgian People's Guard Armenian National Corps National Army of the Azerbaijani DR
Strength
Volunteer Army 8,000-40,000 Armed Forces of South Russia 150,000
100,000-260,000
Ukrainian People's Army
100,000 (at its peak in 1918)
Georgian People's Guard
27,000 (active) 87.000 (potential conscripts)
Armenian National Corps
40,000 (1920)
National Army of the ADR
40,000 (1920)
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Theaters of the Russian Civil War
October Revolution
Left-wing uprisings
Allied intervention
Central Powers intervention
Northern
Finland
North Russia
Heimosodat
Eastern Karelia
Western
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Petrograd
Poland
Southern
Ukraine
Ukrainian-Soviet War
Western Ukraine
South Russia
Bessarabia
South Caucasus
Ossetia
Georgia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Tambov
Eastern
Czechoslovak Legionary Revolt
Siberia
1st Kazan
2nd Kazan
1st Perm
Spring 1919 offensive of the White Army
Spring 1919 counteroffensive of the Red Army
Great Siberian Ice March
Chita
Mongolia
Yakut revolt
Central Asian
Bukhara
Khiva
Basmachi
The Southern Front was a military theatre of the Russian Civil War.
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Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
1917
1st Kharkiv
1918
Mughan
Shamkhor
Donbas-Don
1st Kiev
Ice March
Steppe March
Iași–Don
March Days
1st Crimea
Transcaucasia
Kuban
Goychay
Sochi
Tsaritsyn
Kurdamir
Livny
Baku
Dibrivka
Allied intervention
1919
Voronezh–Povorino
Katerynoslav March
Northern Caucasus
Ukraine
2nd Kiev
Khotyn Uprising
1st Donbas
Hryhoriv Uprising
Binagadi
Chapan rebellion
Vyoshenskaya Uprising
Alexandrovsky Fort
Bender Uprising
Odesa
2nd Kharkiv
Mamontov Raid
Southern Front counteroffensive
3rd Kiev
Perehonivka
Advance on Moscow
Nizhyn–Poltava
Orel–Kursk
Voronezh–Kastornoye
Khopyor–Don
Pavlohrad–Katerynoslav
3rd Kharkiv
4th Kiev
2nd Donbas
1920
Rostov–Novocherkassk
Odesa
North Caucasus
Novorossiysk
Azerbaijan
Yalama
Sarvan
Ochakov
Anzali
Lankaran
Ulagay's Landing
Obytichnyi Spit
Armenia
Northern Taurida
Dagestan uprising
Tambov Rebellion
Perekop–Chonhar
2nd Crimea
Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict
1921
Anapa
Georgia
^ abThomas & Boltowsky (2019), p. 8.
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