Kharkiv Operation (June 1919)

Kharkiv Operation (June 1919)
Part of the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War

The advance of the AFSR in Spring 1919
Date20–25 June 1919
(5 days)
Location
Kharkiv, North-Eastern Ukraine
Result White Army victory
Belligerents
Russian State 1st Army Corps (AFSR)
Russian State Terek Division
Russian State Volunteer Army
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Ukrainian Soviet Army
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 13th Army (RSFSR)
Commanders and leaders
Russia Vladimir May-Mayevsky
Russia Alexander Kutepov
Russia Sergei Toporkov
Russia Anton Turkul
Russia Andrei Shkuro
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 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.