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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">1918 offensive of the Russian Civil War</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Kuban_bridgehead" title="Kuban bridgehead">Kuban bridgehead</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r963460841">@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .desktop-float-right{box-sizing:border-box;float:right;clear:right}}.mw-parser-output .infobox.vevent 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style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Destruction of the Caucasian Bolshevik army</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Whites <a href="/wiki/Northern_Caucasus_Operation_(1918%E2%80%931919)" title="Northern Caucasus Operation (1918–1919)">invade</a> the North Caucasus</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">After the campaign, the Whites occupy Crimea and southern Ukraine</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Territorial<br />changes</th><td> White Army obtains control of the Kuban region</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"><span><img alt="" 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class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Drozdovsky" title="Mikhail Drozdovsky">Mikhail Drozdovsky</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Markov" title="Sergey Markov">Sergey Markov</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Old English Text MT',serif"><b>†</b></span></a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Units involved</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1594" data-file-height="1063" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/White_Army" title="White Army">White Army</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Strength</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1594" data-file-height="1063" /></span></span></span> 80,000–100,000 troops (in total)<br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia_%281918%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1594" data-file-height="1063" /></span></span></span> 100 artillery</td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, 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<b>Kuban Offensive</b>, also called the <b>Second Kuban Campaign</b>, was fought between the <a href="/wiki/White_Army" title="White Army">White</a> and <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red</a> Armies during the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The White Army achieved an important victory despite being numerically inferior in manpower and artillery. It resulted in the capture of <a href="/wiki/Ekaterinodar" class="mw-redirect" title="Ekaterinodar">Ekaterinodar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Novorossiysk" title="Novorossiysk">Novorossiysk</a> in August 1918 and the conquest of the Western part of Kuban by the White armies. Later in 1918 they took <a href="/wiki/Maykop" title="Maykop">Maykop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armavir,_Russia" title="Armavir, Russia">Armavir</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stavropol" title="Stavropol">Stavropol</a>, and extended their authority over the entire Kuban Region.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_campaign">The campaign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kuban_Offensive&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: The campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 28 May, Krasnov and Denikin met at Manychskaia to decide between attacking <a href="/wiki/Tsaritsyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsaritsyn">Tsaritsyn</a>, favored by Krasnov, or <a href="/wiki/Ekaterinodar" class="mw-redirect" title="Ekaterinodar">Ekaterinodar</a>, favored by Denikin. Krasnov favored Tsaritsyn for is munition factories and railway junction. Denikin favored Ekaterinodar, according to <a href="/wiki/Peter_Kenez" title="Peter Kenez">Peter Kenez</a>, because "He had promised the Kuban Cossacks that he would liberate their native district. Denikin made the correct decision because he understood that in May 1918 there was no effective anti-Bolshevik force in Russia aside from the Cossacks." Yet the <a href="/wiki/Volunteer_Army" title="Volunteer Army">Volunteer Army</a> consisted of about 9,000 soldiers, and would face more than 75,000 Bolsheviks in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Caucasus" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Caucasus">Northern Caucasus</a>, commanded by <a href="/wiki/Alexei_Ivanovich_Avtonomov" title="Alexei Ivanovich Avtonomov">Alexei Ivanovich Avtonomov</a>. However, at the end of May, Avtonomov was replaced by K. I. Kalnin. Most of the Bolshevik forces were concentrated in the <a href="/wiki/Eisk" class="mw-redirect" title="Eisk">Eisk</a> district, after the Germans occupied Ukraine, <a href="/wiki/Taganrog" title="Taganrog">Taganrog</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rostov-on-Don" title="Rostov-on-Don">Rostov-on-Don</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bataisk" class="mw-redirect" title="Bataisk">Bataisk</a>. Kalnin had 10,000 men stationed around Torgovaia and Tikhoretskaia, while his subordinate <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Sorokin" title="Ivan Sorokin">Ivan Sorokin</a> faced the Germans near Rostov.<sup id="cite_ref-pk_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pk-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 22 June 1918, the Volunteer Army launched the second Kuban campaign. Denikin left <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Pokrovsky" title="Viktor Pokrovsky">Viktor Pokrovsky</a>'s regiment behind to protect his flank against Sorokin, while Denikin made a surprise attack on Trogovaia, on the Tsaritsyn-Ekaterinodar railway. On 25 June, Torgovaia was captured, but with the loss of Denikin's general <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Markov" title="Sergey Markov">Sergey Markov</a>. Denikin then constructed armored cars from the trolley cars to protect the railway line. On 6 July, Denikin captured <a href="/wiki/Belaya_Glina,_Krasnodar_Krai" title="Belaya Glina, Krasnodar Krai">Belaia Glina</a> while Kalnin's Bolsheviks retreated to Tikhoretskaia. Pokrovsky then successfully resisted an attack by Sorokin.<sup id="cite_ref-pk_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pk-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 14 July, Denikin captured <a href="/wiki/Tikhoretsk" title="Tikhoretsk">Tikhoretsk</a>, with Borovskii's division attacked from the South and Erdeli's division attacked from the North. Communications between Kalnin and Sorokin were severed, and the Volunteer Army acquired weapons, munitions, <a href="/wiki/Rolling_stock" title="Rolling stock">rolling stock</a>, and control of a major railway center. On 15 July, Kalnin gave up his command to Sorokin. Denikin attacked Sorokin with 10,00 men under Erdeli, Pokrovsky, and <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Kutepov" title="Alexander Kutepov">Alexander Kutepov</a>, while Denikin sent Borovskii to attack Kavkazkaia.<sup id="cite_ref-pk_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pk-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 27 July, Denikin sent <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Drozdovsky" title="Mikhail Drozdovsky">Mikhail Drozdovsky</a> towards Ekaterinodar, but at the same time Sorokin occupied <a href="/wiki/Korenovsk" title="Korenovsk">Korenovsk</a>, separating Drozdovsky from Denikin. On 7 August, after 11 days, Sorokin surrendered Korenovsk and retreated towards Ekaterinodar. On 16 August, Ekaterinodar was captured, with the entry of the <a href="/wiki/Kuban_Rada" title="Kuban Rada">Kuban Rada</a> and Denikin's Volunteer Army. The Republic of the Northern Caucasus Executive Committee, founded on 5 July by the Congress of Soviets in Ekaterinodar, fled to <a href="/wiki/Armavir,_Russia" title="Armavir, Russia">Armavir</a>, then to <a href="/wiki/Pyatigorsk" title="Pyatigorsk">Pyatigorsk</a>, and finally to <a href="/wiki/Nevinnomyssk" title="Nevinnomyssk">Nevinnomyssk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pk_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pk-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Kuban_uprising">Kuban uprising</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kuban_Offensive&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Kuban uprising"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the victory of the Volunteers, all the Kuban rose up against the Bolsheviks. The stanitsa took up arms one after the other and a wave of alternately Red and White terror swept over the Kuban. General <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Pokrovsky" title="Viktor Pokrovsky">Viktor Pokrovsky</a>, dispatched three months earlier by Denikin to organize the insurgents of the Laba region, captured Maykop and Armavir. The <a href="/wiki/Terek_Cossacks" title="Terek Cossacks">Terek Cossacks</a> also revolted and took <a href="/wiki/Mozdok" title="Mozdok">Mozdok</a>, cutting Red communications between Stavropol and Vladikavkaz, and besieging Grozny. The Reds did not manage anymore to organize the defense of Ekaterinodar, their troops fleeing before the advance of the Whites. On August 15, the Whites took Ekaterinodar without a fight, followed on August 26 by <a href="/wiki/Novorossiysk" title="Novorossiysk">Novorossiysk</a>. </p><p>The campaign then continued along the coast of the Black Sea towards Stavropol, which was taken on November 15, 1918. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Drozdovsky" title="Mikhail Drozdovsky">Mikhail Drozdovsky</a> was wounded in October 1918 near Stavropol. 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