Minusinsk Uprising

Minusinsk Uprising
	Part of Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War
Date	November 9 - December 7, 1918
Location	Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Result	Rebellion suppressed. Continuation of guerrilla fighting by rebel remnants.
Belligerents
Peasant rebels	White Army
Commanders and leaders
V. Oschepkov	I. F. Shilnikov
Strength
10,000 (8,000 unarmed)	3,000

The Minusinsk Uprising was a peasant uprising in November 1918 around Minusinsk, in the Krasnoyarsk Krai province, against the policy of extortion, forcible mobilization into the Siberian Army and repression by the White Guards.

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