Red Army offensive in Crimea

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The Red Army offensive in Crimea was a decisive Soviet military campaign in 1920 that crushed the last major White forces under General Wrangel and secured Bolshevik control over the Crimean Peninsula.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet military campaign
military offensive
belligerentStrength several Red Army armies
combatant Red Army
Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
commandedBy Bela Kun
Mikhail Frunze
conflict Russian Civil War
country Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
describedBySource Soviet military histories of the Russian Civil War
memoirs of participants in the Russian Civil War
endTime 1920-11
followedBy emigration of Wrangel’s army
evacuation of White forces from Crimea
hasPart Perekop–Chongar operation
assault on Perekop Isthmus
crossing of the Sivash
historicalPeriod early Soviet era
involves artillery units
cavalry units
infantry units
naval support in evacuation operations
languageOfSources English
Russian
Ukrainian
location Crimea
Crimea
surface form: Crimean Peninsula
militaryTheater Southern Front
notableFor crossing of shallow Sivash lagoon under fire
use of frontal assaults on fortified isthmuses
opponent Russian Army (Wrangel)
surface form: Russian Army of General Wrangel

White movement
opposedByCommander Pyotr Wrangel
partOf Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
final phase of the Russian Civil War
pointInTime 1920
politicalConsequence consolidation of Bolshevik power in southern Russia
elimination of last major White stronghold in European Russia
precededBy White evacuation from Northern Tavria
result Bolshevik control of Crimea
decisive Red Army victory
defeat of Wrangel’s forces
end of major White resistance in European Russia
startTime 1920-11
strategicObjective capture of the Crimean Peninsula
destruction of Wrangel’s Russian Army

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Wrangel government in Crimea dissolvedAfter Red Army offensive in Crimea
4th Ukrainian Front objective Red Army offensive in Crimea
this entity surface form: liberation of Crimea
Soviet 56th Army notableOperation Red Army offensive in Crimea
this entity surface form: Crimean operations