February Uprising
| February Uprising | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of Sovietization of Armenia and Southern Front of the Russian Civil War | |||||||
Headline in The New York Times from March 17, 1921 | |||||||
| |||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||
|
Dashnaktsutiun Mountainous Armenia |
Soviet Russia Soviet Armenia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
|
Simon Vratsian Garegin Nzhdeh Suren Tarkhanan |
Anatoliy Gekker Sarkis Kasyan Avis Nurijanyan | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| Salvation Committee of the Fatherland | 11th Red Army | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| ~10,000 (April) | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | 200 (in mid-April, Soviet claim) | ||||||
The February Uprising (Armenian: Փետրվարյան ապստամբություն, romanized: P’etrvaryan apstambut’yun) was an anti-Bolshevik rebellion by the nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation which started on February 13 and was suppressed on April 2, 1921, by the recapture of Yerevan by Bolshevik forces.