Soviet invasion of Armenia

Red Army invasion of Armenia
Part of the Turkish invasion of Armenia and the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War

Red Army in Yerevan, November 1920
Date29 November – 4 December 1920 (5 days)
Location
First Republic of Armenia
Result

Soviet victory

Belligerents
Russian SFSR
Azerbaijan SSR
Armenian Bolsheviks		 Armenia
Casualties and losses
~60,000 Armenian civilian deaths in the simultaneous Turkish invasion of Armenia

The Soviet invasion of Armenia was a military campaign which was carried out by the 11th Army of Soviet Russia from 29 November to 4 December 1920 in order to install a new Soviet government in the First Republic of Armenia, a former territory of the Russian Empire. The invasion coincided with an invasion by Kemalist Turkey and anti-government insurrections organized by local Armenian Bolsheviks. The invasion led to the dissolution of the First Republic of Armenia and the establishment of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Militant resistance continued in southern Armenia under Nzhdeh's self-declared Republic of Mountainous Armenia until July 1921.


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