Simbirsk Operation
| Simbirsk Operation | |||||||
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| Part of the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| RSFSR |
People's Army of Komuch Czechoslovak Legion | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky Pēteris Slavens |
Vladimir Kappel Jan Syrový | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| About 8 300 | About 11 500 | ||||||
The Simbirsk Operation was the Bolshevik Red Army's offensive against Vladimir Kappel's anti-Bolshevik People's Army of Komuch and Czechoslovak Legion. The attack came at Simbirsk, on the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War, in September 1918. The Bolsheviks re-took the city, forcing Kappel's retreat to Ufa, where his force was absorbed by the Siberian Army.