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, after ...

during the

Russian Civil War , date = October Revolution, 7 November 1917 – Yakut revolt, 16 June 1923{{Efn, The main phase ended on 25 October 1922. Revolt against the Bolsheviks continued Basmachi movement, in Central Asia and Tungus Republic, the Far East th ...

, 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. 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 The Armed Forces of South Russia (AFSR or SRAF) () were the unified military forces of the White movement in southern Russia between 1919 and 1920. On 8 January 1919, the Armed Forces of South Russia were formed, incorporating the Volunteer Army ...

, in the area of

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in the Northern Taurida. The White Guards managed to hang on to the

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, 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

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

* J. J. Peche (June 5 - July 21, 1919), * 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

{{Reflist 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