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Name: South Russia 1919 campaign

Type: Event

Start: 1918 AD

End: 1920 AD

Parent: Russian Civil War

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Was a military offensive by pro-White South Russia during the Russian Civil War.

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  • June 1919: Russian general Denikin's troops took the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod.
  • June 1919: White troops under Wrangel's command took Tsaritsyn.
  • August 1919: The Red Army, stretched thin by fighting on all fronts, was forced out of Kiev.
  • September 1919: Kursk and Orel were taken by White forces, on 20 September and 14 October, respectively.
  • December 1919: The Red Army recaptured Kiev on 17 December.
  • February 1920: The Red Army took Krasnovodsk, south of Fort Alexandrovsk.
  • October 1919: Kursk and Orel were taken by White forces, on 20 September and 14 October, respectively.
  • December 1919: The Soviets captured the city of Tajpak.
  • March 1920: By the end of March 1920, Denikin's troops were retreating in the Caucasus and Port Petrovsk was abandoned to the advancing Red Army.
  • November 1919: Kursk was retaken by the Reds.

  • 1. Battle for the Donbass


    Was a military campaign of the Russian Civil War in which White forces repulsed attacks of the Red Army on the Don Host Oblast and occupied the Donbass region.

  • November 1918: The Whites entered Lugansk and took controle of the Lugansk and Slovianoserbsk districts.
  • December 1918: The Cossacks entered Debaltsevo, Donetsk and Mariupol.
  • January 1919: The Lozovaya-Sinelnikovo line was taken by the communists.
  • January 1919: Bolshevik units led by Kozhevnikov units occupied Kostiantynivka and Bakhmut.
  • March 1919: On March 20, the Red Army captured Donesk.
  • March 1919: Andrei Shkuro's White troops broke through the front of the Reds at Krindachyovka and took Debaltsevo.
  • May 1919: Shkuro's cavalry captured Donetsk (Yuzovka) and Avdeevka and the Kornilov division took Debaltsevo.
  • May 1919: Lugansk occupied by the Whites on 27 May.
  • April 1919: The Red 1st Zadneprovskaya division of Pavel Dybenko seized Melitopol, cutting the White Azov Front in two.
  • March 1919: Units of the 13th Red Army attacked from the Northwest and forced the depleted Volunteer battalions to retreat from Debaltsevo.
  • May 1919: The Bolsheviks launched the offensive on May 14, and on the next day retook Lugansk.
  • March 1919: Communist and Anarchis detachments seized Volnovakha.
  • March 1919: Mariupol conquered by russia.
  • February 1919: The Makhno brigade recaptured Polohy.
  • March 1919: They Bolsheviks pushed the enemy towards the south and west of the Donetsk basin.
  • May 1919: Lugansk conquered by South Russia (Whites).
  • January 1919: On January 16 the Reds took Bilovodsk.
  • May 1919: The Whites reached the Millerovo station.
  • March 1919: Makhno (Communists) seized Berdyansk on March 15.
  • June 1919: The Bolshevik 13th Army retreated in disorder to the North, stopping only a month later in the area of Novy Oskol.
  • January 1919: By January 14 the Reds occupied Starobilsk and entered the Northern Donbass, having seized the stations Logvinovo, Popasnaya, Kramatorskaya, Slavyansk.
  • May 1919: The Whites took Yenakiyevo.

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