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| Battle of Zerabulak | |||||||
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| Part of Russian conquest of Central Asia | |||||||
 Nikolay Karazin. Battle on Zerabulak Heights | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Russia |
 Bukhara | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Konstantin Kaufmann | Emir Muzaffar | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 2,020 soldiers, including 320 Cossacks; 14 guns, 6 rocket launchers[1] | 30,000; unknown number of artillery[1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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63 wounded and killed in battle[2] | from 3,500[5] to 10,000[2] killed and wounded in battle[a] | ||||||
The battle on the Zerabulak heights is the decisive battle of the Russian army under the command of General Kaufman with the army of the Bukhara emir Muzaffar, which took place in June 1868, on the slopes of the Zera-tau mountain range, between Samarkand and Bukhara. It ended with the defeat of the Bukhara army, and the transition of the Bukhara Emirate to vassal dependence on the Russian Empire. Zerabulak battle is the first test of Carle's needle rifles [ru].[2]
- ^ a b c d Velichko et al. 1912.
- ^ a b c Kersnovsky 1993, p. 289.
- ^ Pierce 1960, p. 26.
- ^ Marvin 1881, p. 401.
- ^ Terentyev 1903, p. 449.
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