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Name: Red Army invasion of Georgia and Armenia

Type: Event

Start: 1920 AD

End: 1921 AD

Parent: Pro-independence and White movements in the Caucasus during the Russian Civil War

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Was a military campaign by the Russian Red Army against secessionist states in the Caucasus.

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  • February 1921: By 17 February, Soviet infantry and cavalry divisions supported by aircraft were less than 15 kilometers northeast of Tbilisi.
  • March 1921: In 1921, New Athos was taken over by the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic on 3 March.
  • December 1920: The Soviets took control of Armenia, which ceased to exist as an independent state. The regions given to Armenia by the treaty of Sevres remained to Turkey.
  • March 1921: On 10 March Soviet forces entered Kutaisi.
  • March 1921: In 1921, during the Red Army invasion of Georgia, Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze ordered the advance eastward to occupy Zugdidi, a key town in western Georgia.
  • December 1920: Capture of Yerevan and Echmiadzin by Bolshevik forces.
  • February 1921: The triumphant Red Army entered Tbilisi.
  • March 1921: Sukhumi conquered by russia.
  • March 1921: Surami conquered by russia.
  • February 1921: On the night of 11-12 February 1921, at Ordzhonikidze's instigation, Bolsheviks attacked local Georgian military posts in the predominantly ethnic Armenian district of Lori and the nearby village of Shulaveri.
  • March 1921: Poti conquered by russia.
  • March 1921: Soviet forces joined by Abkhaz peasant militias, the Kyaraz, succeeded in taking Gagra.

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