Kharkiv Operation (June 1919) | |||||||
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Part of the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War | |||||||
The advance of the AFSR in Spring 1919 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
1st Army Corps (AFSR) Terek Division Volunteer Army |
Ukrainian Soviet Army 13th Army (RSFSR) | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Vladimir May-Mayevsky Alexander Kutepov Sergei Toporkov Anton Turkul Andrei Shkuro |
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko Anatoliy Gekker |
The Kharkiv Operation was a military campaign of the Russian Civil War in June 1919, in which White forces captured the important industrial center of Kharkiv from the Bolsheviks, in preparation for an advance on Moscow.