Perm Operation (1918–19)

Perm Operation
	Part of the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War
Date	29 November 1918 to 28 January 1919
Location	Ural Region
Result	First battle: White victory; Second battle: Indecisive;
Belligerents
Red Army	Siberian Army
Commanders and leaders
Sergey Kamenev; Mikhail Lashevich (3d Army); Vasily Shorin (2nd Army from January 19)	Anatoly Pepelyayev
Strength
About 36,000 in first battle 38,000 in second battle	About 45,000 in first battle 8,000 in second battle
Casualties and losses
Very High	Very High

The Perm Operation (November 1918 – January 1919), sometimes called the Perm Catastrophe, was a military operation on the Eastern Theater of the Russian Civil War.