Rostov–Novocherkassk Operation

Rostov–Novocherkassk Operation
	Part of the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
	; Don Area
Date	January 6-10, 1920
Location	Don Host Oblast, Southern Russia
Result	Red Army victory. White Army cut in two. Beginning of the North Caucasus and Odessa operations.
Belligerents
Armed Forces of South Russia	Russian SFSR
Commanders and leaders
Konstantin Mamontov; Ivan Barbovitch; Sergei Toporkov	Grigori Sokolnikov; Mikhail Levandovsky; Semyon Budyonny
Units involved
Don Army; 3rd Don Cavalry Corps; 4th Don Cavalry Corps; Volunteer Army Consolidated Cavalry Corps; Volunteer infantry corps;	Southern Front 8th Army; 9th Army; 1st Cavalry Army;

The Rostov-Novocherkassk operation (January 6-10, 1920) was an offensive operation on the Don River of the Southern and the South-Eastern Front the Red Army against the White Guard troops during the Russian Civil War.

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