Ice March

First Kuban Campaign or Ice March
	Part of the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
	; A Volunteer Army recruitment poster represents a woman addressing her son with the words: "My son! Go and save your Motherland!"
Date	February 22 – May 13, 1918
Location	Kuban Oblast, Southern Russia
Result	White strategic victory
Belligerents
White movement	Bolsheviks
Commanders and leaders
Lavr Kornilov †; Mikhail Alekseyev †; Anton Denikin; Sergey Markov; M. O. Nezhentsev †	Ivan Sorokin; Alexei Avtonomov; Rudolf Sivers
Strength
Volunteer Army:; initially 4,000, later 6,000; (2,000 Don Cossacks); 14 artillery pieces	Red Army:; 24,000 - 60,000; 20+ artillery pieces; 3 armored trains
Casualties and losses
1,000 killed; 3,000 wounded; 2,000 deserted (Cossacks)	5,000-20,000+ killed; (exact number unknown); 10,000 wounded; 7,000 captured; 3,000 fled; 2 armored trains captured or destroyed; ; During the battle of Yekaterinodar:; 15,000 lost, about 10,000 of which were wounded

The Ice March (Russian: Ледяной походъ), also called the First Kuban Campaign (Russian: Первый кубанскій походъ), a military withdrawal lasting from February to May 1918, was one of the defining moments in the Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1921. Under attack by the Red Army advancing from the north, the forces of the Volunteer Army, sometimes referred to as the White Guard, began a retreat from the city of Rostov south towards the Kuban, in the hope of gaining the support of the Don Cossacks against the Bolshevik government in Moscow.

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