Sochi conflict

The Sochi conflict was a three-party border conflict which involved the counterrevolutionary White Russian forces, Bolshevik Red Army and the Democratic Republic of Georgia, each of which sought control over the strategic Black Sea town of Sochi. The conflict was fought as a part of the Russian Civil War and lasted with varying success from July 1918 to May 1919, and ended through British mediation.

Sochi conflict
Part of World War I and Russian Civil War

Georgian artillerymen in Sochi, 1919
DateJuly 1918 – May 1919
Location
Sokhumi District (Abkhazia), Georgia;
Sochi and Tuapse, Black Sea Governorate
Result Inconclusive
Territorial
changes		 Gagra was transferred under the jurisdiction of Democratic Republic of Georgia.
Belligerents

Georgia

Military support:

Russian Soviet Republic

White movement

 Ottoman Empire

Commanders and leaders
Giorgi Mazniashvili
Ioseb Gedevanishvili
Valiko Jugheli
Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein

Yepifan Kovtyukh
Efrem Eshba

Anton Denikin		 Yusuf Izzet Pasha
Casualties and losses
unknown unknown unknown
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