Southern Front of the Russian Civil War

Southern Front
Part of the Russian Civil War
Date7 November 1917 - April 1921
Location
Result Bolshevik victory
Belligerents
 South Russia
Don Republic Don Republic
Kuban Republic
Ukrainian State Ukrainian State
Crimea

 Russian SFSR
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Ukrainian SSR
Red Estonia[1]


Makhnovshchina Makhnovshchina


Ankara Government
Ukrainian People's Republic Ukraine
Democratic Republic of Georgia Georgia
First Republic of Armenia Armenia
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Azerbaijan
Commanders and leaders
South Russia (1919–1920) Lavr Kornilov
South Russia (1919–1920) Anton Denikin
Pyotr Wrangel
South Russia (1919–1920) Mikhail Alexeyev
South Russia (1919–1920)Don Republic Peter Krasnov
Andrei Shkuro
Don Republic Konstantin Mamontov
Ukrainian State Pavlo Skoropadsky

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Semyon Budyonny
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Mikhail Frunze
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Kliment Voroshilov
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Joseph Stalin


Nestor Makhno


Kâzım Karabekir

Ukrainian People's Republic Symon Petliura
Democratic Republic of Georgia Noe Zhordania
Democratic Republic of Georgia Parmen Chichinadze
First Republic of Armenia Alexander Khatisian
First Republic of Armenia Drastamat Kanayan
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Nasib bey Yusifbeyli
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Samad bey Mehmandarov


Units involved

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Red Army


Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine


Turkish Land Forces
Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainian People's Army
Democratic Republic of Georgia Georgian People's Guard
First Republic of Armenia Armenian National Corps
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic 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)
The ethnic-Romanian Revolutionary Battalion in Odessa, 1918

The Southern Front was a military theater of the Russian Civil War.


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