Northern Taurida Operation

Northern Taurida Operation
	Part of the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
	; A British-made Mark IV tank captured from the White Army by the Red Army in the Kakhovka bridgehead, 14 October 1920.
Date	6 June – 3 November 1920
Location	Tavria, Southern Ukraine
Result	Soviet victory Whites fall back to Crimea; Beginning of the Siege of Perekop;
Belligerents
South Russia	Russian SFSR; Ukrainian SSR; Makhnovshchina
Commanders and leaders
Pyotr Wrangel; Yakov Slashchov; Alexander Kutepov	Mikhail Frunze; August Kork; Ieronim Uborevich; Nestor Makhno; Semen Karetnyk
Units involved
Russian Army 1st Army Corps; 2nd Army Corps; ;	Southern Front 6th Army; 13th Army; 1st Cavalry Army; 2nd Cavalry Army; ; Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine;
Strength
35,000 23,000 infantry; 12,000 cavalry; ;	133,100 99,500 infantry; 33,600 cavalry; ; 2,000 cavalry;
Casualties and losses
Heavy	Heavy

The Northern Taurida operation (6 June – 3 November 1920) was a military campaign in the Russian Civil War between the Red Army and the White Army under Pyotr Wrangel for the possession of Northern Taurida. The campaign can be divided into 3 stages: the White offensive (6 June – 3 July), trench warfare around the Kakhovka Bridgehead (20 August – 27 October) and the counterattack of the Red Army (28 October – 3 November).