Northern Taurida Operation

Northern Taurida Operation
	Part of the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
	; A British-made Mark IV tank captured from the White Army by the Red Army in the Kakhovka bridgehead, 14 October 1920.
Date	6 June – 3 November 1920
Location	Tavria, Southern Ukraine
Result	Soviet-Makhnovist victory Whites fall back to Crimea; Beginning of the Siege of Perekop;
Belligerents
South Russia	Russian SFSR; Ukrainian SSR; Makhnovshchina
Commanders and leaders
Pyotr Wrangel; Yakov Slashchov (until August 1920); Alexander Kutepov	Mikhail Frunze; August Kork; Ieronim Uborevich; Nestor Makhno; Semen Karetnyk
Units involved
Russian Army 1st Army Corps; 2nd Army Corps; ;	Southern Front 6th Army; 13th Army; 1st Cavalry Army; 2nd Cavalry Army; ; Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine;
Strength
35,000 23,000 infantry; 12,000 cavalry; ;	133,100 99,500 infantry; 33,600 cavalry; ; 2,000 cavalry;
Casualties and losses
Heavy	Heavy

The Northern Taurida operation (6 June – 3 November 1920) was a military campaign in the Russian Civil War between the Red Army and the White Army under Pyotr Wrangel for the possession of Northern Taurida. The campaign can be divided into three stages: the White offensive (6 June – 3 July), trench warfare around the Kakhovka Bridgehead (20 August – 27 October) and the counterattack of the Red Army (28 October – 3 November).