Battle of Kruty

Battle of Kruty
	Part of the Ukrainian–Soviet War
	; Scheme of the Battle of Kruty.
Date	January 29 or 30, 1918
Location	near Kruty, Ukraine 51°4′46.32″N 32°9′33.48″E / 51.0795333°N 32.1593000°E
Result	Strategic Ukrainian victory Capture of Kyiv by Soviet forces delayed; Conclusion of the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; Massacre of students who defended the station from the Bolshevik offensive;
Belligerents
Ukrainian People's Republic	Soviet Russia
Commanders and leaders
Averkii Honcharenko	Mikhail Muravyov; Pavel Yegorov; Reingold Berzin
Units involved
The Kyiv Cadet auxiliary kurin and the company size element of Free Cossacks	Group of forces in battle with the counterrevolution in the South of Russia
Strength
Total: 600 soldiers 500 students ; 2 armored trains ; ~100 cossacks	Total: 3,000 soldiers; 1,000 men (strike force); 2,000+ men (reserves) ; 2 armored trains ; artillery battery
Casualties and losses
Less than 260 ; 36 prisoners (28 later executed)	Heavy, about 300

The Battle of Kruty (Ukrainian: Бій під Крутами, romanized: Bii pid Krutamy) took place on January 29 or 30, 1918, near Kruty railway station (today the village of Pamiatne, Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast), about 130 kilometres (81 miles) northeast of Kyiv, Ukraine, which at the time was part of Nizhyn Povit of Chernihiv Governorate.