Donbas-Don operation

Donbas-Don operation
Part of the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
Rudolf Sivers and a Red Guards detachment
Date 8 January – 25 February 1918 (1918-01-08 – 1918-02-25) Location Donbas and Don Host Oblast, southern Russia Result Soviet victory Bolsheviks consolidate power over European Russia Volunteer Army undertake a retreat to Yekaterinodar Don Cossacks undertake a retreat towards the Sal Don Soviet Republic proclaimed in Rostov
Belligerents
Russian Republic Don Host	Russian Soviet Republic Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets
Commanders and leaders
Lavr Kornilov Mikhail Alekseyev Anton Denikin Alexander Kutepov Alexey Kaledin † Vasily Chernetsov † Anatoli Nazarov [ru]  Pyotr Popov [ru]	Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko Yuriy Sablin Rudolf Sivers Mikhail Petrov Fyodor Podtiolkov [ru] Mikhail Krivoshlykov [ru]
Units involved
Volunteer Army Don Cossacks	Southern Revolutionary Front Red Cossacks

The Donbas-Don operation was a military campaign of the Russian Civil War that lasted from January to February 1918, by forces of the Southern Revolutionary Front under the command of Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, against the Cossack troops of Alexey Kaledin and Volunteer detachments on the territory of the Donbas and the Don Cossack region. It was the decisive operation in the complete conquest of Russia by the Bolsheviks following the October Revolution.^[1]