The Crimean Soviet Army was a field army of the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...
during the
Russian Civil War
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, which existed between May 5, 1919 and July 21, 1919. It was first part of the
Ukrainian Front and from June 4 of the
14th Army Fourteenth Army or 14th Army may refer to:
* 14th Army (German Empire), a World War I field Army
* 14th Army (Wehrmacht), a World War II field army
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On July 21, 1919 the Army was disbanded, and it was reorganised as the Crimean Rifle Division, called 58th Rifle Division from July 27.
History
The troops of the Crimean Soviet Army fought in the Crimea against the
Armed Forces of South Russia, in the area of
Polohy
Polohy (, ; russian: Пологи, translit=Pologi) is a city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, currently under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. It serves as the administrative center of Polohy Raion. Population: .
From 1928 to 1937, it ...
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Berdyansk
Berdiansk or Berdyansk ( uk, Бердя́нськ, translit=Berdiansk, ; russian: Бердя́нск, translit=Berdyansk ) is a port city in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast (province) in south-eastern Ukraine. It is on the northern coast of the Sea o ...
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Melitopol in the Northern Taurida. The White Guards managed to hang on to the
Kerch Peninsula
The Kerch Peninsula is a major and prominent geographic peninsula located at the eastern end of the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine.
This peninsula stretches eastward toward the Taman peninsula between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Most of the pe ...
, defending a front on the Aqmanai isthmus.
In May–June the Crimean Army took part in the suppression of the
Grigoriev uprising
The uprising of Nykyfor Hryhoriv was an armed protest against the Bolshevik rule in Ukraine in May 1919, which covered the area between Mykolaiv and Kherson, Katerynoslav, Cherkasy, Kremenchuk and Kryvyi Rih. Its leader was otaman Nykyfor Hryhor ...
.
In mid-June 1919, under the pressure of the White Army advance, the entire Red Army was forced out of the Crimea.
Commanding staff
Commander
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Pavel Dybenko
Pavel Efimovich Dybenko (russian: Павел Ефимович Дыбенко), (February 16, 1889 – July 29, 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a leading Soviet officer and military commander.
Prior to military service
Pavel Dybenko was b ...
(May 5July 21, 1919).
RVS members
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J. J. Peche (June 5 - July 21, 1919),
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V.N.Tolmachev (June 5 - July 21, 1919)
Chief of staff
S.I. Petrikovsksy
Head of the Political Department
A.M. Kollonatai
Bibliography
* Civil war and military intervention in the USSR. Encyclopedia. Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1983.
References
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Armies of Ukraine
Soviet field armies in the Russian Civil War
Military units and formations established in 1919
Military units and formations disestablished in 1919