Southern Front of the Russian Civil War

Southern Front
Part of the Russian Civil War

The ethnic-Romanian Revolutionary Battalion in Odessa, 1918
Date7 November 1917April 1921
Location
Result Bolshevik victory
Belligerents

Makhnovshchina


Ankara Government
Commanders and leaders

Nestor Makhno


Kâzım Karabekir
Units involved

Red Army


Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine


Turkish Land Forces
Ukrainian People's Army
Georgian People's Guard
Armenian National Corps
National Army of the Azerbaijani DR
Strength
Volunteer Army 8,000-40,000
Armed Forces of South Russia 150,000
100,000-260,000

Ukrainian People's Army 100,000 (at its peak in 1918)
Georgian People's Guard 27,000 (active) 87,000 (potential conscripts)
Armenian National Corps 40,000 (1920)
National Army of the ADR

40,000 (1920)<

The Southern Front was a military theater of the Russian Civil War.