Donbas-Don operation

Donbas-Don operation
Part of the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War

Rudolf Sivers and a Red Guards detachment
Date8 January – 25 February 1918 (1918-01-08 – 1918-02-25)
Location
Result

Soviet victory

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] Executed
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]

  1. ^ Kenez 2004, pp. 93–95.