Dagestan Campaign (1918)

Dagestan Campaign (1918)
Part of the Caucasus Campaign and World War I
Date1 August – 20 September 1918 (51 days)
Location
Dagestan
Result First Phase: Russian White victory
Second Phase: Ottoman victory
Territorial
changes
  • Temporary occupation of Dagestan by the Bicherakhov forces
  • Defeat of the Soviet rule in Dagestan
  • Temporary occupation of Dagestan by the Ottomans
Belligerents

 Russian State

 United Kingdom
 Russian Soviet Socialist Republic
Commanders and leaders
Lazar Bicherakhov
Lionel Dunsterville

 Ottoman Empire

Tapa Chermoev		 Ullu-biy Buynaksky
Djelal ed-Din Korkmasov
Strength

3,000 Cossacks

1 gunboat Ardahan

11,564

448 Officers		 4,500
Casualties and losses
Heavy Heavy 2,000 killed and wounded

The Dagestan Campaign (Turkish: Dağıstan Seferi) was a battle between the Ottoman Empire and Russia that happened right after the Battle of Baku during World War I. After the victory in Baku, Ottoman soldiers occupied the Dagestani cities of Derbent and Port-Petrovsk. However, the Ottoman Empire was defeated and the territories were seized by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

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