Battle of Vystavka

The Battle of Vystavka was the defense of the village of Vystavka and several neighboring villages by Allied forces against a series of attacks from the Red Army during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War in late January-early March, 1919.

Battle of Vystavka
Part of the Allied North Russia Intervention during the Russian Civil War
Date January 27–early March 1919 Location Vystavka, Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian SFSR Result Bolshevik victory
Belligerents
United States  Canada White Army	Bolshevik Russia

After the defeat in the Battle of Shenkursk, the Allied garrison at Shenkursk first fell back to Shegovary some 25 miles downriver and then 25 more miles to Vystavka, reaching it on January 27. They prepared defenses and withstood several Red Army attacks over the course of the next several weeks. In early March, after heavy bombardment by Bolsheviks, the Allies fell back 5 more miles downstream to Kitsa. At this moment the Red Army stopped their offensive on the Vaga River front.[1][2] It was the final engagement of the Russian Civil War to involve Canadian forces, though clashes continued with other allied countries.

See also

• Siberian Intervention

References

1. Beede, 560
2. Boot, pg. 231

• Boot, Max (2003). The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 046500721X. LCCN 2004695066.
• Beede, Benjamin R. (1994). The War of 1898, and U.S. Interventions, 1898-1934: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0824056248.