Chita Operations

Chita Operations
Part of the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War
The Chita White Cossack Regiment.
Date 10 April - 31 October 1920 Location East Transbaikal Result Far Eastern Republic victory
Belligerents
Far Eastern Republic People's Revolutionary Army	Eastern Okraina Far Eastern Army  Japan
Commanders and leaders
Genrich Eiche	Grigory Semyonov Yui Mitsue
Strength
17,600 soldiers 107 machine guns 31 artillery pieces 4 armored trains 4 tanks	14,600 soldiers 369 machine guns 100 artillery pieces 18 armored trains

The Chita Operations (Russian: Читинские Операции) were a series of military engagements fought in the Russian Civil War. On 10 April 1920, the army of the Far Eastern Republic (FER) launched the first operation, aiming at destroying the White Movement's Chita holdup in east Transbaikal which prevented it from connecting with its allies in Primorsky Krai. The first operation ended three days later, a second offensive (25 April–5 May) likewise failed to achieve its final objectives. Fighting continued, however neither side could boast significant territorial gains. On 15 July, the FER signed the Gongota Agreement of 1920 with Japan, the latter's withdrawal from Transbaikal severely weakened the Whites. The FER army was restructured and reinforced by its new commander Genrich Eiche, while morale under Grigory Semyonov's White units plummeted. On 1 October, Eiche launched the final Chita operation, by the end of the month the area of the Chita holdup had been subjugated.