Battle of Dushanbe

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Military battle between the Basmachi and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Battle of Dushanbe

Part of Russian Civil War
| Date| December 1921 — February 1922

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Location|

Dushanbe, Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, modern day Tajikistan

Result|  Basmachi victory
Territorial
changes|  Dushanbe City captured by the Basmachi movement[1]
Belligerents
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|  Basmachi movement
Commanders and leaders
Unknown|  Enver Pasha
Ali-Riza
Daniyar-Bek
Strength
Unknown|  15,000
Casualties and losses
100 [1]|  Heavy

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Central Asian Theater of the Russian Civil War

* Bukharan Revolution
* Khivan Revolution
* Petro-Aleksandrovsk
* Tashkent Rebellion (1917)
* Malleson mission
* Bukhara operation (1920)
* Basmachi movement
* Khiva (1924)

The Battle of Dushanbe was a military conflict fought between the Basmachi movement against the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The Basmachi movement conquered Dushanbe in 1922.[2][3][4][5]

## Chronology[edit]

By the end of December 1921, Enver Pasha with Ali-Riza and Daniyar-Bek laid siege to Dushanbe. The garrison of the city withstood a two-month siege, but in February 1922 the defenders of the city surrendered and Dushanbe was taken.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Kara, İlyas (26 August 2002). Enver Paşa Basmacılar İsyanı. YEDİVEREN Publications. p. 128\. ISBN 978-6058820364.
2. ^ Iskandarov, Buhodor Iskandarovych (1986). Борьба за установление Советской власти в Таджикистане (1920-1922) [The struggle for the establishment of Soviet power in Tajikistan] (in Russian). Izd-vo "Donish". p. 93.
3. ^ Irkaev, Mullo Irkaevich (1971). История гражданской войны в Таджикистане [History of the civil war in Tajikistan] (in Russian). Dushanbe: Издательство Ирфон.
4. ^ a b Polyakov, Yuri Alexandrovich; Chugunov, Alexander Ivanovich (1976). Конец Басмачества [The end of Basmachism] (in Russian). Moscow: Наука. pp. 91–92.
5. ^ Marsakova, K.P.; Abulkhaevich, Rakib Abulkhaevich (1972). Упрочение Советской власти в районах верховьев Зеравшана (1918-1923 гг.) [Strengthening Soviet power in the upper reaches of Zeravshan (1918-1923)] (in Russian). Dushanbe: Donish.

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