Rostov–Novocherkassk Operation

Rostov–Novocherkassk Operation
	Part of the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
	; Don Area
Date	January 6–10, 1920
Location	Don Host Oblast, Southern Russia
Result	Red Army victory White Army cut in two; Beginning of the North Caucasus and Odessa operations.;
Belligerents
Armed Forces of South Russia	Russian SFSR
Commanders and leaders
Konstantin Mamontov; Ivan Barbovitch; Sergei Toporkov	Grigori Sokolnikov; Mikhail Levandovsky; Semyon Budyonny
Units involved
Don Army; 3rd Don Cavalry Corps; 4th Don Cavalry Corps; Volunteer Army Consolidated Cavalry Corps; Volunteer infantry corps;	Southern Front 8th Army; 9th Army; 1st Cavalry Army;

The Rostov-Novocherkassk Operation (January 6–10, 1920) was an offensive operation on the Don River of the Southern and the South-Eastern Frontof the Red Army against the White Guard troops during the Russian Civil War.