Battles for Dushanbe (1922)

Battles for Dushanbe
Part of the Russian Civil War, Basmachi Movement and Enver Pasha's Rebellion

Picture of Bolshevik officers in Turkestan in 1922
DateDecember 1921 – 4 August 1922
Location
Result

Bolshevik victory

Territorial
changes
Dushanbe and multiple villages around the city captured by the Red Army
Belligerents
Russian SFSR
Soviet Bukhara
Basmachi Movement
Commanders and leaders
Yakov Melkumov Enver Pasha 

The Battles for Dushanbe (1921–1922) were a series of battles around the Capital city of Tajikistan from late 1921 (when it was besieged by Enver Pasha)[1] until August 4, 1922 (when Enver was killed in combat)[2]

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  2. ^ "History of Dushanbe - Lonely Planet Travel Information". 2016-06-10. Archived from the original on 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2024-06-02.