The 3rd Ukrainian Soviet was a field army of the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian language, Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist R ...

during the

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, which existed between April 15, 1919 and June 13, 1919 as part of the Ukrainian Front. Then the troops became part of the newly formed 12th Army of the Western Front.

History

The 3rd Ukrainian Soviet Army fought against the

UNR Army The Ukrainian People's Army ( uk, Армія Української Народної Республіки), also known as the Ukrainian National Army (UNA) or as a derogatory term of Russian and Soviet historiography Petliurovtsy ( uk, Пет� ...

in the

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- Kherson -

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area, and by the end of April had cleared the entire Left Bank from the enemy from

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. On May 11, 1919, the Army forces crossed the Dniester river and advanced towards Chisinau, but the offensive was halted after the beginning of the anti-Soviet

Grigoriev Uprising The uprising of Nykyfor Hryhoriv was an armed protest against the Bolshevik rule in Ukraine in May 1919, which covered the area between Mykolaiv and Kherson, Katerynoslav, Cherkasy, Kremenchuk and Kryvyi Rih. Its leader was otaman Nykyfor Hryhor ...

. Parts of the Army participated in the suppression of this uprising. On May 28, the Army transferred part of the troops to the Southern Front and went on the defensive against the advancing White troops of

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Commanders

* Nikolai Khudyakov (April 15 - June 13, 1919).

Sources

* Civil war and military intervention in the USSR. Encyclopedia. Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1983.
Central State Archive of the Soviet Army. In two volumes. Volume 1. Guide. TsGASA, 1991
pp. 292-293 * Savchenko VA A. Twelve Wars for Ukraine. - Kharkov: Folio, 2006. {{Soviet Armies of the Russian Civil War Armies of Ukraine Soviet field armies in the Russian Civil War Military units and formations established in 1919 Military units and formations disestablished in 1919