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movement">Basmachi movement</a></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>1–30 June 1930</td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Location</th><td><div class="location"><a href="/wiki/Badakhshan_Province" title="Badakhshan Province">Badakhshan Province</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Afghanistan" title="Kingdom of Afghanistan">Kingdom of Afghanistan</a></div></td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Result</th><td class="status"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Soviet victory</li></ul></div> <ul><li>The defeat of the Basmachi bases in northern Afghanistan</li></ul></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;"> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281924%E2%80%931936%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281924%E2%80%931936%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281924%E2%80%931936%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281924%E2%80%931936%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281924%E2%80%931936%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281924%E2%80%931936%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281928%E2%80%931929%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281928%E2%80%931929%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281928%E2%80%931929%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281928%E2%80%931929%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281928%E2%80%931929%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281928%E2%80%931929%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Afghanistan" title="Kingdom of Afghanistan">Kingdom of Afghanistan</a></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Turkestan.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Flag_of_Turkestan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Turkestan.svg.png" decoding="async" 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class="mw-redirect" title="Expedition of Shuja ul-Mulk">1st Shuja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dost_Mohammad%27s_Campaign_to_Jalalabad_(1834)" title="Dost Mohammad's Campaign to Jalalabad (1834)">Jalalabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Peshawar_(1834)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Peshawar (1834)">Peshawar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jamrud" title="Battle of Jamrud">Jamrud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Herat_War" title="First Herat War">7th Herat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Turkestan_Campaign_of_1838-39" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan Turkestan Campaign of 1838-39">1st Afghan Turkestan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War" title="First Anglo-Afghan War">1st Britain, 2nd Shuja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazarajat_Campaign_of_1843" title="Hazarajat Campaign of 1843">2nd Hazara</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kabul-Kandahar_War&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kabul-Kandahar War (page does not exist)">1st 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Hazaras">4th Hazara</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Uruzgan" title="Battle of Uruzgan">Uruzgan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1892_Maimana_Revolt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1892 Maimana Revolt (page does not exist)">2nd Maimana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1888%E2%80%931893_uprisings_of_Hazaras#Third_uprising" class="mw-redirect" title="1888–1893 uprisings of Hazaras">5th Hazara</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Conquest_of_Kafiristan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conquest of Kafiristan (page does not exist)">Kafiristan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khost_rebellion_(1912)" title="Khost rebellion (1912)">2nd Khost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urtatagai_conflict_(1913)" title="Urtatagai conflict (1913)">1st Urtatagai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War" title="Third Anglo-Afghan War">3rd Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alizai_rebellion_of_1923" title="Alizai rebellion of 1923">Alizai</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Afghan_tribal_revolts_of_1944%E2%80%931947" title="Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947">Tribal revolts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_Hazara_Rebellion" title="1945 Hazara Rebellion">6th Hazara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_Hazara_Rebellion" title="1949 Hazara Rebellion">7th Hazara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_Afghan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1973 Afghan coup d'état">Republican coup</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>The <b>Red Army intervention in Afghanistan in 1930</b> or the <b>Second Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan of 1930</b> was a special operation of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Asian_Military_District" title="Central Asian Military District">Central Asian Military District</a> command to destroy the <a href="/wiki/Basmachi_movement" title="Basmachi movement">Basmachi</a> economic bases and exterminate their manpower in Afghanistan. The operation was carried out by parts of the combined cavalry brigade under the command of the brigade commander <a href="/wiki/Yakov_Melkumov" title="Yakov Melkumov">Yakov Melkumov</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wounded_in_action" title="Wounded in action"><abbr title="Wounded in action">WIA</abbr></a>).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <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=Red_Army_intervention_in_Afghanistan_(1930)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Prelude"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1930, the <a href="/wiki/Central_Asian_Military_District" title="Central Asian Military District">Central Asian Military District</a> command developed a plan to attack the <a href="/wiki/Basmachi_movement" title="Basmachi movement">Basmachi</a> bases and destroy their manpower in northern Afghanistan, where active fighters against the Soviet government emigrated from <a href="/wiki/Turkestan" title="Turkestan">Turkestan</a> in the 1920s and systematically violated the Soviet-Afghan border. In addition, as early as the end of 1929, Soviet intelligence received reliable information from the recently defeated Emir of Afghanistan <a href="/wiki/Habibull%C4%81h_Kalak%C4%81ni" title="Habibullāh Kalakāni">Habibullāh Kalakāni</a> (Bacha-ye Saqao) about the planned tearing away of northern Afghanistan and the formation of a separate state on its territory, headed by <a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_Bek" title="Ibrahim Bek">Ibrahim Bek</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At a meeting of elders in <a href="/wiki/Kunduz" title="Kunduz">Kunduz</a> in March 1930, the Prime Minister of Afghanistan, <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Hashim_Khan" title="Mohammad Hashim Khan">Mohammad Hashim Khan</a>, on behalf of the King of Afghanistan, <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Nadir_Shah" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Nadir Shah">Mohammed Nadir Shah</a>, who had taken power from Habibullah, again demanded that Ibrahim Bek lay down his arms. However, the latter stated:<sup id="cite_ref-abdunazarov.ru_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abdunazarov.ru-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>My weapon is not directed against Afghanistan. It is ours, we got it in battle.</p></blockquote> <p>These circumstances to a great extent bothered the Afghan government, and it agreed to force intervention by the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">USSR</a> in their country. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Campaign">Campaign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_Army_intervention_in_Afghanistan_(1930)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2.jpg/220px-%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="220" /></a><figcaption>Brigade commander <a href="/wiki/Yakov_Melkumov" title="Yakov Melkumov">Yakov Melkumov</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ibragimbek.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Ibragimbek.jpg/220px-Ibragimbek.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Ibragimbek.jpg/330px-Ibragimbek.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Ibragimbek.jpg/440px-Ibragimbek.jpg 2x" data-file-width="468" data-file-height="335" /></a><figcaption>Kurbashi <a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_Bek" title="Ibrahim Bek">Ibrahim Bek</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Before crossing the border at the Aivaj post with the soldiers of the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a>, explanatory work was carried out on the need for their invasion of the territory of a neighboring state. The purpose of the campaign was explained, and the possibility of causing any damage to the indigenous population of Afghanistan was strictly excluded. The results of the operation were to be <i>“our gift”</i> to the <a href="/wiki/16th_Party_Congress_(Bolsheviks)" class="mw-redirect" title="16th Party Congress (Bolsheviks)">16th Party Congress</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the end of June 1930, the combined cavalry brigade of the Red Army under the command of the brigade commander Yakov Melkumov (Hakob Melkumyan, known in the Basmachi environment as Yakub Tura), crossed the <a href="/wiki/Amu_Darya" title="Amu Darya">Amu Darya</a>, entering <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-abdunazarov.ru_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abdunazarov.ru-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Not meeting on its way opposition from the local authorities and the regular Afghan army, the Soviet detachment advanced 50–70 km inland.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The local population, which was clearly dissatisfied with the emigrants (Basmachis and their families), who, in their opinion, occupied the <i>“best lands”</i>, was friendly towards the Red Army units. Local residents often acted as guides.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unit commanders, in turn, as noted in the report: "<i>They strictly controlled that during the operation the fighters did not accidentally“ touch ”the farms and property of the indigenous people, and did not affect their national and religious feelings"</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Representatives of the local administration assisted the Soviet detachment when crossing the <a href="/wiki/Khanabad_River" title="Khanabad River">Khanabad River</a>, as well as in the acquisition of supplies and fodder. Payment for receiving the latter was carried out in a currency convenient for the local population.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon learning of the Red Army's invasion of Afghanistan, <a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_Bek" title="Ibrahim Bek">Ibrahim Bek</a> initially wanted to fight, but after specifying the enemy’s strength, he hastily left for the mountains, while informing the <i>naibul-hukuma</i> (governor-general) of the <a href="/wiki/Qataghan-Badakhshan_Province" title="Qataghan-Badakhshan Province">Qataghan-Badakhshan Province</a>, Mir-Muhammed-Safar Khan, to attack of the Red Army. Safar Khan, in turn, sent a letter to the Soviet commanders on 23 June, reproaching them <i>"for a sudden border crossing"</i> and urging them to return <i>"to their territory",</i> but this did not impede the further operation of the latter. The next day, Ibrahim Bek received an order from Safar Khan to <i>"join the battle with the Reds"</i>. However, seeing that the local authorities <i>"do not interfere with the Russians"</i>, the Lokai at the assembled council decided that the Afghans were deliberately trying to push them against the Red Army. Another prominent <i>kurbashi</i> was <a href="/w/index.php?title=Utan_Bek&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Utan Bek (page does not exist)">Utan Bek</a>, who was aware of his agents on the border as well as Ibrahim Bek went to the mountains. As a result of this, units of the Red Army, as noted in the report: <i>"did not have to meet organized resistance and they eliminated individual gangs of 30–40 dzhigits, individual basmachi and their accomplices"</i>. </p><p>During the punitive raid, Ak-Tepe (White Hill) and <a href="/wiki/%27Aliabad" title="'Aliabad">Ali-Abad</a> villages in <a href="/wiki/Kunduz_Province" title="Kunduz Province">Kunduz Province</a> were burned and destroyed, except for that part of the village where the native Afghans lived. Also, during the raid for 35 km, all villages and <a href="/wiki/Yurt" title="Yurt">yurts</a> in the river valley were destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Up to 17,000 cartridges were blown up, up to 40 rifles were seized, emigrants' grain stocks were burned, cattle were destroyed and partially stolen. The Soviet detachment took 200 camels, 80 horses and 400 rams with them.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The local Afghan population did not leave their yurts and remained untouched. The total losses of the Basmachis and their accomplices amounted to 839 people killed, including the head of the religious sect Pir-Ishan and the ideological inspirers of the Basmachi by the <i>kurbashi</i> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ishan-Palvan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ishan-Palvan (page does not exist)">Ishan-Palvan</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Domullo-Donahan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Domullo-Donahan (page does not exist)">Domullo-Donahan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The losses of the Soviet side amounted to one drowned at the crossing and two wounded.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_Army_intervention_in_Afghanistan_(1930)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Civil_War_(1928%E2%80%931929)" title="Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)">Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Red_Army_intervention_in_Afghanistan_(1929)" title="Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929)">Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="Soviet–Afghan War">Soviet–Afghan War</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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