Simbirsk Operation

Simbirsk Operation
Part of the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War
DateSeptember 1918
Location
Result Bolshevik victory
Belligerents
Red Army People's Army of Komuch
Czechoslovak Legion
Commanders and leaders
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Pēteris Slavens
Vladimir Kappel
Stanislav Čeček
Strength
about 8,300 about 11,500

The Simbirsk Operation was the Bolshevik Red Army's offensive against Vladimir Kappel's anti-Bolshevik People's Army of Komuch and Czechoslovak Legion. The attack came at Simbirsk, on the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War, in September 1918.[1][2] The Bolsheviks re-took the city, forcing Kappel's retreat to Ufa, where his force was absorbed by the Siberian Army.

  1. ^ "Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume II - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov.
  2. ^ "Telegram To The Penza Gubernia Executive Committee And The Revolutionary War Council Of The First Army". www.marxists.org.