1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya

1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya
	Part of the Eastern Front of World War II, the Battle of the Caucasus and the Chechen–Russian conflict
Date	January 1940 – 15 December 1944
Location	Chechen-Ingush ASSR and parts of Dagestan ASSR, Soviet Union
Result	Soviet victory; Deportation of Chechens and Ingushes;
Belligerents
Provisional Popular Revolutionary Government of Chechnya-Ingushetia; Co-Belligerent:; Germany (Limited and unclear, 1942)	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Hasan Israilov †; Mairbek Sheripov †; Akhmed Khuchbarov	Vasily Khomenko †; Nazirov Mukhadin †
Units involved
Partisan detachment of Ahmed Khuchbarov	58th Army; NKVD
Strength
5,000; 14 people (Israilov's group) ; 50 German and German-trained saboteurs	110,000 (Operation Lentil)
Casualties and losses
657 killed; 3,875 captured according to the GARF	200 killed

The 1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya was an autonomous revolt against the Soviet authorities in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Beginning in early 1940 under Hasan Israilov, it peaked in 1942 during the German invasion of North Caucasus and ended in the beginning of 1944 with the wholesale concentration and deportation of the Vainakh peoples (Chechens and Ingushes) from their native lands as well as from the locations across the USSR, resulting in the death of at least 144,000 civilians. However, scattered resistance in the mountains continued for years.