Battle of Zhmerynka
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| Battle of Zhmerynka | |
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| Part of the Ukrainian People’s Republic | |
| Result | Ukrainian victory |
| Territorial changes | Bolsheviks were defeated by the Ukrainian and the Austro–Hungarian forces and retreated from the Right–Bank Ukraine |
1917:
Ukrainian People's Republic
Austro–Hungarian monarchy
Ukrainian State Austro–Hungarian monarchy
Bolsheviks Pavlo Skoropadskyi Sergey Kashevich † Pyotr Ptakhin †- Unknown Corps
- Red Guard
- 2nd Guard Corps
The Battle of Zhmerynka (December 1917 — March 1918) — battle between the Ukrainian People's Army, Austro-Hungarian forces and Red Army. A detachment of the Free Cossacks led by Pavlo Skoropadskyi from the 2nd Guard Corps of the Red Army took part in the battle. Pavlo Skoropadsky managed to drive the Bolsheviks out of Zhmerynka and force them to retreat from the Right Bank Ukraine, but on March 1 Bolsheviks took Kyiv.[1]
Battle
In the last days of December 1917, the troops of the 2nd Guard Corps recaptured
Aleksandrovsk on January 15, and Poltava on January 20, on their way to Kyiv.[1] On January 27, the Bolshevik army groups converged in Bakhmach and then set off under the command of Muravyov to take Kyiv. After suffering significant losses, the Red Guards retreated. The yellow and blue flag flew over Zhmerynka again. In the battle, the driver of the Zhmerynka locomotive depot, Serhiy Kashevych, was assassinated. One of the streets in the city is now named after him. Another driver who died during the battles on the side of Bolsheviks
was Petro Ptakhin.
References
- ^ a b Ukrainian-Soviet War, 1917–21 Archived December 31, 2019, at the Wayback Machine at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Literature
- ISBN 978-5-91631-282-9.