East Karelian uprising

East Karelian uprising
	Part of the Heimosodat
	; Karelian and Finnish soldiers fighting against Russian Bolsheviks, 9 January 1922
Date	6 November 1921 – 21 March 1922
Location	East Karelia
Result	Soviet victory End of the Heimosodat;
Belligerents
Karelian United Government Metsäsissit; Supported by:; Finland White Guard; Jaeger Movement;	Russian SFSR Karelian Labor Commune;
Commanders and leaders
Ukki Väinämöinen; Ossippa Borissainen; Jalmari Takkinen;	Alexander Sedyakin ; Sergey Kamenev
Strength
3,050	13,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown	352 killed,; 1,042 wounded, sick or injured

The East Karelian Uprising (Finnish: itäkarjalaisten kansannousu, Karelian: päivännouzu karjalan kanzannouzu) and the Soviet–Finnish conflict 1921–1922 were an attempt by a group of East Karelian separatists supported by Finland to gain independence from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. They were aided by a number of Finnish volunteers, starting from 6 November 1921. The conflict ended on 21 March 1922 with the Agreements between the governments of Soviet Russia and Finland about the measures of maintenance of the inviolability of the Soviet–Finnish border. The conflict is regarded in Finland as one of the heimosodat – "Kinship Wars".