Red Army invasion of Georgia

Red Army invasion of Georgia
	Part of the Russian Civil War and Turkish War of Independence
Date	(12 February – 17 March 1921)
Location	Georgia
Result	Soviet-Turkish victory fall of the Democratic Republic of Georgia; Sovietisation of Georgia;
Belligerents
Russian SFSR Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Turkish revolutionaries	Democratic Republic of Georgia
Units involved
Red Army XV. Corps	Defence Forces of Georgia
Strength
40,000 infantry 4,300 cavalry 900 Ossetian irregulars 196 artillery pieces 1,065 machine guns 50 fighter aircraft 7 armoured trains 4 tanks 24+ armoured cars 20,000	11,000 infantry 400 mounted infantry hundreds from the People's Guard of Georgia 46 artillery pieces several hundred machine guns 56 fighter aircraft (including 25 Ansaldo SVA-10s and one Sopwith Camel.) 4 armoured trains several armoured cars
Casualties and losses
5,500 killed 2,500 captured Unknown number wounded 10 killed, 18 wounded, 24 missing	3,200 killed or captured Unknown number wounded 3,800–5,000 civilians killed

Red army invasion of Georgia was a series of military campaigns waged by Soviet Union, which resulted in occupation of Georgia.

The first campaign was launched by the Soviet Russia on 12 February, later Ankara Government involved in 23 February.

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