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Battle of Volochayevka

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The Red attack of February 10 was repulsed with heavy losses. One of the Red tanks was knocked out and the other broke down. Wounded died quickly in the −30 °C (−22 °F) temperatures. Blyukher regrouped on February 11, then attacked again on February 12. This time, the 3rd and 6th Regiments
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The Red Army was too exhausted to effectively pursue the White Army, which escaped encirclement. However, White military fortunes continued on a downward path after this battle, and the last remnants of White and Japanese forces in the Far East surrendered or evacuated by October 25, 1922.
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On December 28, 1921, the Whites suffered their first check at a battle 110 kilometres (68 mi) west of Khabarovsk and retreated to Volochayevka and fortified themselves in a position based on Ju-Quran hill. Throughout January 1922 the two armies skirmished and fought in this area.
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At dawn on February 10, 1922, in severe cold and deep snow, Blyukher's Red Army attacked the White positions. The Reds had 7,600 soldiers with hundreds of machine guns and 30
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broke through the wire and after fierce fighting the Reds captured Ju-Quran hill around noon. This rendered the White position untenable, and Molchanov retreated.
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On February 13, Molchanov's White forces retreated past Khabarovsk and the Red Army entered the city.
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In November 1921 the Far Eastern White Army launched an offensive against the Far Eastern Republic,
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Index

Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War

Volochayevka-1
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Russia
Khabarovsk
Far Eastern Republic
Russia
White movement
Far Eastern Republic
Vasily Blyukher
Russia
Viktorin Molchanov
Renault FT
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Eastern Front
of the Russian Civil War

1st Yakut
Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion
Barnaul
Siberian intervention
1st Kazan
2nd Kazan
Simbirsk
Syzran and Samara
Izhevsk and Votkinsk
Arsk
Minusinsk
1st Perm

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