Minusinsk Uprising

Minusinsk Uprising
Part of Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War
DateNovember 9 – December 7, 1918
Location
Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Result Rebellion suppressed
Belligerents
Peasant rebels White Army
Commanders and leaders
V. Oschepkov I. F. Shilnikov
Strength
10,000 (8,000 unarmed) 3,000

The Minusinsk Uprising was a peasant uprising in November 1918 around Minusinsk, in the Krasnoyarsk Krai province, against the policy of extortion, forcible mobilization into the Siberian Army and repression by the White Guards.

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