Bredovskiy campaign

On January 24, 1920, by a directive of the commander of the troops of the Novorossiysk Region, Lieutenant General N. N. Schilling, all the troops of the right-bank Ukraine , except the garrison of Odessa, were subordinated to the commander of one of the group of forces of the region, Lieutenant General N. E. Bredov . His main forces were concentrated at Tiraspol , at s. Lighthouses at Ovidiopol , from where they were supposed to go to Romania , where, having connected in Tulce , wait for evacuation to the Crimea .

A number of combat units and volunteer detachments, led by the former commandant of Odessa, Colonel Stessel , who, after the battle near Candela, decided to leave General Vasilyev’s detachment, having abandoned all convoys and refugees as an attack group, were able to join the Bredov’s squad connections with parts of General Bredov - about 40 kilometers. The cast of Stessel’s squad succeeded, and the remaining Vasiliev’s squad perished.

However, due to Romania’s refusal to let in Russian troops, General Bredov’s units on the night of January 30 started moving in three parallel columns north along the Dniester River . On the right flank, making up the side avant-garde, there were mounted units; in the middle - infantry divisions and on the left, directly along the Dniester - carts. A detachment of Bredov accompanied a convoy with 7 thousand patients and refugees. After 14 days of a heavy campaign, the units of Bredov came out on February 12, 1920 to the town of Novy Ushitsa , where they met with Polish troops. For some time they occupied an independent sector of the front against the Red Army , and in March they were disarmed and sent to Poland, where they were placed in former German prisoners of war camps - Pikulice ( Polish Pikulice ) near Przemysl , . Dąbie ) near Krakow and in Strzalkow ( Polish Strzałkowie ). In August 1920, they were transferred to the Crimea .

At the beginning of the campaign, the number of troops in the detachment was about 23 thousand soldiers and officers. About 7 thousand delusional men returned to Crimea. Most died from the typhoid epidemic, including in Polish camps. A number of participants in the campaign wanted to stay abroad. In addition, some of the ethnic Ukrainians Poles turned over to the Polish army.

A special sign was set for the participants of the campaign: a white cross on a national ribbon with a silver sword down, on both sides of which are the numbers “19” and “20” and the inscription “Faithful to duty” on the back in Slavic script.

• Separate Cavalry Brigade
  • 2nd Officer General Drozdovsky Horse Regiment
  • 3rd Cavalry Regiment, included in the divisions:
    • Elizavetgrad 3rd Hussar Regiment
    • Sumy 1st Hussar Regiment
    • Riga 11th Dragoon Regiment
  • Joint Caucasian Cavalry Division
    • Tverskoy 16th Dragoon Regiment (2 squadrons)
    • Nizhny Novgorod 17th Dragoon Regiment (2 squadrons)
    • Seversky 18th Dragoon Regiment (2 squadrons)

Troops of the Kiev region VSYUR

• 2nd Army Corps (General Promtov )
  • 7th Infantry Division
    • Yakutsk 42nd Infantry Regiment
    • Combined Regiment of the 15th Infantry Division
    • 7th art brigade
  • 5th Infantry Division (Gen. Major Ossovsky )
    • Sevastopol 75th Infantry Regiment
    • Kabardinsky 80th Infantry Regiment
    • 5th art brigade
  • Consolidated Guard Infantry Division - 1000 people (Gen. Skalon )
    • Combined regiments of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Guards Infantry Divisions
    • Combined regiment of the Guards Rifle Division

• Colonel Dzhaginov Consolidated Ossetian Division
  • 3rd Ossetian cavalry regiment of the Ossetian cavalry division
  • 1st Ossetian Rifle Battalion of the Ossetian Horse Division

• 2nd Terskaya Plastun separate brigade (regiment. Belogortsev )

Troops of the Novorossiysk region of the FSSJ , joined the detachment of General Bredov

• 4th Infantry Division (former Crimean) (acting regiment. Shteifon )
  • Belozersky 13th Infantry Regiment
  • Olonets 14th Infantry Regiment
  • Ladoga 16th Infantry Regiment
  • Simferopol officer regiment (regiment. Gvozdakov)
  • two batteries of the Combined Artillery Division
• Separate Cossack brigade of the 3rd Army Corps (Gen. Major Sklyarov )
  • 42nd Don Cossack Regiment
  • 2nd Taman Cossack Regiment
  • 2nd Labinsky Cossack Regiment
    • Crimean Horse Regiment (1 squadron)
• 4th Infantry Division (Gen. – Major Nepenin ) from the Poltava detachment of the Troops of the Novorossiysk Region
  • 13th Rifle Regiment
  • 16th Rifle Regiment

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• Cross "For the campaign of the detachment of General Bredov"
• Troops of the Kiev region VSYUR
• Troops of the Novorossiysk region
• Odessa operation (1920)
• Odessa evacuation (1920)
• Category: Participants of the Breda campaign