Kuban Offensive
The Kuban Offensive, also called the Second Kuban Campaign, was fought between the White and Red Armies during the Russian Civil War. The White Army achieved an important victory despite being numerically inferior in manpower and artillery. It resulted in the capture of Ekaterinodar and Novorossiysk in August 1918 and the conquest of the Western part of Kuban by the White armies. Later in 1918 they took Maykop, Armavir and Stavropol, and extended their authority over the entire Kuban Region.
| Second Kuban Campaign | |||||||||
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| Part of the Russian Civil War | |||||||||
Volunteer Army infantry company | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| RSFSR | General Command of the Armed Forces of South Russia | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Ivan Sorokin Alexei Ivanovich Avtonomov |
Anton Denikin Mikhail Drozdovsky Sergey Markov † | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
| Red Army | White Army | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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80,000–100,000 troops (in total) 100 artillery |
8,000–9,000 troops 21 artillery (initially) | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 45,000 killed or wounded, almost all the equipment | 5,000 killed or missing | ||||||||
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