Civil War on the Don

Civil War on the Don
	Part of the Civil War in Rossiya
	; Parade of Student Druzhinas of the White Armiya.; Rostov–on–Don, 1919
Date	November 8, 1917 – March 27, 1920
Location	Don Voysko Oblast and adjacent territories
Result	Bolshevik victory; Evacuation of the remnants of the White Movement to Krym;
Belligerents
1917–1918:; From November 1917:; Rossiya (South–Eastern Union); From January 1918:; Rossiya (Volunteer Armiya); Until May 1918:; Rossiya (Don Cossack Voysko); From May 1918:; All–Great Don Voysko; April–November 1918:; German Empire Reichsheer; ; Austria–Hungary; Ukrainian State; 1919–1920:; Armed Forces of the South of Rossiya; Rebels of the Vyoshenskaya Uprising (from March to June 1919, then joined the Don Armiya as part of the Armed Forces of the South of Rossiya); British Empire; France;	1917–1920:; Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Workers' and Peasants' Red Armiya; Special Purpose Units; Trotskiy's Irregular Troops; ; March–September 1918:; Don Soviet Republic (until mid–April – Don Republic);
Commanders and leaders
Pyotr Krasnov; Afrikan Bogaevskiy; Svyatoslav Denisov; Pyotr Popov; Aleksey Kaledin †; Pavel Kudinov; (Vyoshenskaya Uprising); Mikhail Alekseev #; Lavr Kornilov †; Anton Denikin; Pyotr Vrangel; Vladimir May–Maevskiy;	Lev Trotskiy; (People's Komissar for Military and Naval Affairs); Ioakim Vatsetis; (Commander–in–Chief of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Armiya); Vladimir Ovseenko; Semyon Budyonny; Boris Dumenko;
Strength
April–May 1919:; Vyoshenskaya Uprising:; ~30,000 people 5 divisions; 1 brigade; 2 regiments; ; As of 1920:; White Movement:; ~40,000 people; Don Armiya:; ~38,000 people; ~158 guns; ~687 machine guns;	Unknown

The Don Civil War was a military action between the Don Kazaks (in alliance with the White Movement in Southern Rossiya) and supporters of Lenin's Council of People's Komissars, primarily in the Don Voysko Oblast, which took place from November 1917 to the spring of 1920. Part of the Civil War in Rossiya.

In the Don, as in many other Cossack Oblasts of Rossiya, there was a historical split between the outlander population and the Kazaks. The fact that the Don became one of the regions where the White Movement began to form its armies is explained primarily by the fact that the Don Oblast received autonomy and self–government at a new level back in the spring of 1917; the Oblast received an elected Ataman and its own governing institutions.