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1919
March
04
Kolchak's spring offensive
On 4 March 1919 Gajda's Siberian Army attacked the Reds on the Kama. Kolchak's spring offensive brought the Whites close to the Volga in April.
July
03
Denikin's Moscow directive
On 3 July 1919, in newly taken Tsaritsyn, General Denikin issued a directive to the armies of South Russia: take Moscow, the "heart of Russia".
September
27
The Allies evacuate Archangel
On 27 September 1919 the last British soldiers boarded ship at Archangel and General Ironside sailed home. Only the White Russians were left at the front.
October
20
Yudenich outside Petrograd
On 20 October 1919 Yudenich's North-Western Army stood outside Petrograd, from Ligovo to Tsarskoye Selo. It did not, however, take the city.
November
14
Fall of Omsk
On 14 November 1919 the Reds crossed the frozen Irtysh and took Omsk, Kolchak's capital. They took tens of thousands of prisoners as the Whites fled east.
1920
February
02
Treaty of Tartu
On 2 February 1920 in Tartu Estonia and Soviet Russia signed a peace treaty. Moscow recognised Estonia's independence and renounced its lands "for ever".
07
Execution of Kolchak
Early on 7 February 1920 in Irkutsk the Bolsheviks shot Admiral Kolchak and his prime minister Viktor Pepelyayev. The bodies were pushed under the ice.
September
02
Czechoslovak Legion evacuation ends
On 2 September 1920 the American transport Heffron sailed from Vladivostok with the last legionaries. The evacuation of the Czechoslovaks from Siberia was over.
November
14
Wrangel's army evacuates the Crimea
On 14 November 1920 the last White ships left Sevastopol. Within a few days almost 146,000 people had been taken from the Crimea to Constantinople.