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style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;">Part of the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Front_of_the_Russian_Civil_War" title="Southern Front of the Russian Civil War">Southern Front</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Donrivermap.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Donrivermap.png/250px-Donrivermap.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Donrivermap.png/375px-Donrivermap.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Donrivermap.png/500px-Donrivermap.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1007" /></a></span><br />Khopyor and Don rivers</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><table style="width:100%;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;display:inline-table"><tbody><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Date</th><td>November 20 – December 8, 1919</td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Location</th><td><div class="location"><a href="/wiki/Voronezh_Governorate" title="Voronezh Governorate">Voronezh Governorate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Don_Host_Oblast" title="Don Host Oblast">Don Host Oblast</a></div></td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Result</th><td class="status"> Red Army victory</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Belligerents</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"><img alt="Russia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281918%E2%80%931925%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281918%E2%80%931925%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281918%E2%80%931925%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281918%E2%80%931925%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders and leaders</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"><img alt="Russia" 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intervention">Allied intervention</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>1919</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Voronezh%E2%80%93Povorino_Operation" title="Voronezh–Povorino Operation">Voronezh–Povorino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katerynoslav_March" title="Katerynoslav March">Katerynoslav March</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Caucasus_Operation_(1918%E2%80%931919)" title="Northern Caucasus Operation (1918–1919)">Northern Caucasus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1919_Soviet_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine">Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(January_1919)" title="Battle of Kiev (January 1919)">2nd Kiev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khotyn_Uprising" title="Khotyn Uprising">Khotyn Uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_for_the_Donbas_(1919)" title="Battle for the Donbas (1919)">1st Donbas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hryhoriv_Uprising" title="Hryhoriv Uprising">Hryhoriv Uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Binagadi" title="Battle of 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Kiev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Peregonovka" title="Battle of Peregonovka">Peregonovka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Advance_on_Moscow_(1919)" title="Advance on Moscow (1919)">Advance on Moscow</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nizhyn%E2%80%93Poltava_Operation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nizhyn–Poltava Operation (page does not exist)">Nizhyn–Poltava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orel%E2%80%93Kursk_operation" title="Orel–Kursk operation">Orel–Kursk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voronezh%E2%80%93Kastornoye_operation_(1919)" title="Voronezh–Kastornoye operation (1919)">Voronezh–Kastornoye</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Khopyor–Don</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pavlohrad%E2%80%93Katerynoslav_Operation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pavlohrad–Katerynoslav Operation (page does not exist)">Pavlohrad–Katerynoslav</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kharkiv_Operation_(December_1919)" title="Kharkiv Operation (December 1919)">3rd Kharkiv</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(December_1919)" title="Battle of Kiev (December 1919)">4th Kiev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donbas_operation_(1919)" title="Donbas operation (1919)">2nd Donbas</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>1920</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rostov%E2%80%93Novocherkassk_Operation" title="Rostov–Novocherkassk Operation">Rostov–Novocherkassk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odessa_Operation_(1920)" title="Odessa Operation (1920)">Odessa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Caucasus_Operation_(1920)" title="North Caucasus Operation (1920)">North Caucasus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evacuation_of_Novorossiysk_(1920)" title="Evacuation of Novorossiysk (1920)">Novorossiysk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Army_invasion_of_Azerbaijan" title="Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Yalama" title="Battle of Yalama">Yalama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sarvan" title="Battle of Sarvan">Sarvan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_Ganja_revolt" title="1920 Ganja revolt">Ganja</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_3_May_1920" title="Action of 3 May 1920">Ochakov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anzali_Operation" title="Anzali Operation">Anzali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lankaran_Uprisings" title="Lankaran Uprisings">Lankaran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulagay%27s_Landing" title="Ulagay's Landing">Ulagay's Landing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Obytichnyi_Spit" title="Battle of Obytichnyi Spit">Obytichnyi Spit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Army_invasion_of_Armenia" title="Red Army invasion of Armenia">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Taurida_Operation" title="Northern Taurida Operation">Northern Taurida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagestan_uprising" title="Dagestan uprising">Dagestan uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tambov_Rebellion" title="Tambov Rebellion">Tambov Rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Perekop_(1920)" title="Siege of Perekop (1920)">Perekop–Chonhar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evacuation_of_the_Crimea" title="Evacuation of the Crimea">2nd Crimea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolshevik%E2%80%93Makhnovist_conflict" title="Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict">Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>1921</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_9_January_1921" title="Action of 9 January 1921">Anapa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_Uprising" title="February Uprising">February</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Army_invasion_of_Georgia" title="Red Army invasion of Georgia">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_over_Mountainous_Armenia" title="War over Mountainous Armenia">Mountainous Armenia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>The <b>Khopyor–Don Operation</b> (November 20 – December 8, 1919) was an offensive during the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a> of the <a href="/wiki/9th_Army_(RSFSR)" title="9th Army (RSFSR)">9th Army</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Front_(RSFSR)" title="Southeastern Front (RSFSR)">Southeastern Front of the Red Army</a>, reinforced by the Cavalry Corps of the <a href="/wiki/10th_Army_(RSFSR)" title="10th Army (RSFSR)">10th Army</a>, against the forces of the <a href="/wiki/Don_Army" title="Don Army">Don Army</a>, in order to ensure the stability of the left wing of the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Front_(RSFSR)" title="Southern Front (RSFSR)">Southern Front of the Red Army</a> and reach the Don River. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Prelude">Prelude</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Khopyor%E2%80%93Don_Operation&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Prelude"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Red Army had successfully conducted the <a href="/wiki/Voronezh-Kastornensk_Offensive_(1919)" class="mw-redirect" title="Voronezh-Kastornensk Offensive (1919)">Voronezh-Kastornensk Operation</a>, defeating the troops of the AFSR. The withdrawal of the <a href="/wiki/Volunteer_Army" title="Volunteer Army">Volunteer Army</a> to the south exposed the left flank of the <a href="/wiki/Don_Army" title="Don Army">Don Army</a>. Therefore, the Don Army was forced in mid-November 1919 to abandon any offensive towards the north, as the Red Army prepared an attack. </p><p>By the time the operation began, the Don Army commanded by General <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Sidorin" title="Vladimir Sidorin">Vladimir Sidorin</a>, held a defensive line over <a href="/wiki/Bobrov,_Bobrovsky_District,_Voronezh_Oblast" title="Bobrov, Bobrovsky District, Voronezh Oblast">Bobrov</a>, Berezovka, and Archedinskaya. His forces amounted to about 13,700 bayonets, 13,200 sabers, 90 guns and 500 machine guns.<br /> The Red 9th Army, under command of Alexander Stepin, and the 10th Army Cavalry Corps, under command of <a href="/wiki/Boris_Dumenko" title="Boris Dumenko">Boris Dumenko</a>, numbered in total 13,400 bayonets, 4,600 sabers, 160 guns and 660 machine guns. </p><p>The Red Army command's plan was to attack with the main forces of the Ninth Army (the 36th, 23rd and 14th Rifle Divisions) and Dumenko's Cavalry Corps, at the junction between the 3rd and 2nd Don Corps, defeat them and occupy the city of <a href="/wiki/Pavlovsk,_Voronezh_Oblast" title="Pavlovsk, Voronezh Oblast">Pavlovsk</a> on the Don River. To ensure the success of the main offensive, two secondary attacks were also planned: one on the right flank of the army by Mikhail Blinov's cavalry division at Talovaya in cooperation with the left-flank divisions of the 8th Army of the Southern Front (<a href="/wiki/33rd_Kuban_Rifle_Division" title="33rd Kuban Rifle Division">33rd</a> and 40th Rifle Divisions), with the aim of destroying the Likino-Bobrov group of the White Guards, and the other on the left flank by the 22nd Infantry Division in cooperation with the 32nd Infantry Division of the 10th Army, towards the villages of Kumylzhenskaya and <a href="/wiki/Ust-Medveditskaya" class="mw-redirect" title="Ust-Medveditskaya">Ust-Medveditskaya</a>, with the task of destroying parts of the 1st Don Corps in the vicinity of the Medveditsa River. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Battle">The Battle</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Khopyor%E2%80%93Don_Operation&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Battle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The offensive of the Red troops began on November 20. Blinov's cavalry division broke through the defense of the Don Army and on November 23 took <a href="/wiki/Buturlinovka" title="Buturlinovka">Buturlinovka</a>, in this battle the divisions commander Mikhail Blinov perished. However, the White 1st Don Cavalry Division, the 7th Don Cavalry Brigade of the 3rd Don Corps and the Cavalry group of the 2nd Don Corps made a flank counterattack on Blinov's cavalry division and by November 25 threw it back to the Talovaya area.<br /> On November 26, the Red forces forced the <a href="/wiki/Khopyor_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Khopyor River">Khopyor River</a> on a broad front, creating a bridgehead on its right bank. The main forces of the Ninth Army broke through the defense of the 7th and Consolidated Don divisions of the 2nd Don Corps and on November 28, Dumenko's cavalry corps captured <a href="/wiki/Kalach,_Kalacheyevsky_District,_Voronezh_Oblast" title="Kalach, Kalacheyevsky District, Voronezh Oblast">Kalach</a>. The 22nd Infantry Division attacked the 6th Don <a href="/wiki/Plastun" title="Plastun">Plastun</a> Division and by November 26 pushed it to the southern bank of the Don. </p><p>The White Command decided to retake Kalach, by concentrating the Cavalry group of the 2nd Don Corps from the Buturlinovka area and the 14th Don Cavalry Brigade of the 1st Don Corps from the Nova Criusi area, to surround the Cavalry corps of Dumenko and defeat it. On November 28, the Don Army launched its counteroffensive. Under the onslaught of the White Guard combined division and the 14th Cavalry Brigade, the units of the 23rd Red Infantry Division were forced to go over to the defensive, and the 14th Infantry Division was forced to retreat. </p><p>At this time, Blinov's cavalry division resumed its offensive with the support of the <a href="/wiki/21st_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="21st Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">21st Infantry Division</a> (from the reserves of the Ninth Army), and defeated the Cavalry group of the Second Don Corps in the <a href="/wiki/Buturlinovka" title="Buturlinovka">Buturlinovka</a> area. Together with the Cavalry corps of Dumenko, they began to encircle the White troops in the south. Unable to withstand the pressure of the Red Army, the Don Army began a general retreat. The troops of the Ninth Army and the cavalry corps together with the 40th Infantry Division, followed in pursuit, and on December 8 reached the Don River at <a href="/wiki/Rossosh,_Rossoshansky_District,_Voronezh_Oblast" title="Rossosh, Rossoshansky District, Voronezh Oblast">Rossosh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ust-Medveditskaya" class="mw-redirect" title="Ust-Medveditskaya">Ust-Medveditskaya</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results">Results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Khopyor%E2%80%93Don_Operation&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The successful choice of location for the main attack of the Red Army led to the division of the Don Army into two parts. This forced the White command to pull back towards the southern bank of the Don, to avoid complete defeat. The lack of cavalry prevented the Red troops from completing the encirclement of the enemy and gain a greater victory. The Red Army advanced up to 100 km at a slow rate, some 5 km per day. </p><p><span class="metadata coord-missing"></span> </p>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=0" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khopyor–Don_Operation&oldid=1259299366">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khopyor–Don_Operation&oldid=1259299366</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Battles_of_the_Russian_Civil_War" title="Category:Battles of the Russian Civil War">Battles of the Russian Civil War</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Conflicts_in_1919" title="Category:Conflicts in 1919">Conflicts in 1919</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Battles_in_1919" title="Category:Battles in 1919">Battles in 1919</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Battles_involving_the_Armed_Forces_of_South_Russia" title="Category:Battles involving the Armed Forces of South Russia">Battles involving the Armed Forces of South Russia</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Battles_involving_Soviet_Russia_(1917%E2%80%931922)" title="Category:Battles involving Soviet Russia (1917–1922)">Battles involving Soviet Russia (1917–1922)</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden categories: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_May_2022" title="Category:Articles lacking sources from May 2022">Articles lacking sources from May 2022</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:All_articles_lacking_sources" title="Category:All articles lacking sources">All articles lacking sources</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Russia_articles_missing_geocoordinate_data" title="Category:Russia articles missing geocoordinate data">Russia articles missing geocoordinate data</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:All_articles_needing_coordinates" title="Category:All articles needing coordinates">All articles needing coordinates</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_missing_coordinates_without_coordinates_on_Wikidata" title="Category:Articles missing coordinates without coordinates on Wikidata">Articles missing coordinates without coordinates on Wikidata</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 24 November 2024, at 11:49<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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