The Turkestan Army was a field army of the

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during the

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which existed between March 5 and June 15, 1919.

History

The Turkestan Army was created by an order of

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, commander of the forces of the Red Eastern Front from the Orenburg Rifle Division and the 3rd Turkestan Cavalry Division. It was part of the Southern Group of Armies of the Eastern Front.
It fought against White troops in the area of

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during the Spring Offensive of the White Army (March-April 1919). From the end of April 1919, it participated in the

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in 1919, successfully acting in the direction of the main strike towards

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and Ufa. It was disbanded on June 15, 1919.

Commanders

* (March 11 - May 22, 1919) *

Mikhail Frunze Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (; ; 2 February 1885 – 31 October 1925) was a Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theory, military theorist. Born to a Bessarabian father and a Russian mother in Russian Turkestan, Frunze at ...

(May 24 - June 15, 1919). Members of the Revolutionary Military Council included * M. D. Kfiyev (March 11 - May 10, 1919), * A.K. Mirskiy (May 9 - June 7, 1919), *

Filipp Goloshchyokin Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin () (born Shaya Itsikovich Goloshchyokin) () ( – October 28, 1941) was a Jewish-Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, and party functionary. A member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party s ...

(April 12 - June 17, 1919) {{Soviet Armies of the Russian Civil War Soviet field armies in the Russian Civil War Military units and formations established in 1919 Military units and formations disestablished in 1919