The battle for Bitlis ( tour: Bitlis Muharebesi ) is a battle between the Russian and Turkish army during the First World War .
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| Main Conflict: World War I , Caucasian Front (World War I) | |||
 Ataturk in Bitlis before the construction of Turkish troops. 1916 year | |||
| date | from July 1915 to August 1916 | ||
| A place | Bitlis , Turkey | ||
| Total | The victory of the Russian troops | ||
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The first military clashes near Bitlis , located in modern Turkey, occurred in July 1915 , when Russian troops launched an unsuccessful assault on the fortified city.
The second battle began in February 1916 and ended with the capture of Bitlis by the Russian corps, which largely consisted of Armenian volunteers under the command of Andranik Ozanyan . The city was the last defensive point of the Ottomans, which impeded the advance of the Russian army in central Turkey and in Mesopotamia .
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Description of the Beatlis Capture
June 10, 1916 "George" received the most famous commander from the Ossetians , the head of the 2nd Caucasian Cossack Division, Lieutenant General Dmitry Konstantinovich Abatsiev . Because, being the head of the detachment operating against the city of Bitlis , he took Kop with the troops entrusted to him on January 28, and on January 29 took control of the assault on Kopsky gates and then Lear, following this, developing success and chasing the enemy retreating to Bitlis , despite the extremely difficult conditions, made his way to Bitlis and on the night of February 19, began storming the positions of this city, and, despite the superior forces of the enemy, his desperate resistance to artillery positions and even on the streets, repeatedly endangering his life, was completely victory took Bitlis , while capturing the whole Turkish artillery - 20 guns, commander of the regiment, 40 officers and 900 enlisted men, flag, artillery warehouse, 5,000 rifles and a lot of food supplies.
In March 1918, the Order of St. George of the 3rd degree for the same operation was awarded to the commander of the 1st Black Sea Cossack Regiment, Major General Pavel Nikolayevich Shatilov .
Literature
- Books
- in Russian
- Avakyan G.G., Balbabyan N.S., Zakharov V.A., Novikov V.V. and others. Armenians in the First World War (1914-1918). - M .: Publishing House "Russian Writer", 2014. - 768 p. - ISBN 978-5-91642-139-2 .
- Ayrapetov O. R. Participation of the Russian Empire in the First World War (1914-1917): Series of 4 books. - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2014-2016.
- Korsun N.G. World War I on the Caucasian Front. - M .: Military Publishing House of the NPO of the USSR, 1946 .-- 100 p.
- Maslovsky E.V. [World War on the Caucasian Front, 1914-1917: strategic essay.] - M.: Veche, 2015. - 544 p. - ISBN 978-5-4444-1754-6
- in English
- , Muratoff PP Caucasian Battlefields: A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border. 1828-1921 (English) . - Cambridge: CUP , 1953. - 614 p. - ISBN 978-1-108-01335-2 .
- Allen W., Muratov P. The Battle of the Caucasus. The history of wars on the Turkish-Caucasian front. 1828-1921 / Per. from English E.V. Lamanova . - M .: Centerpolygraph , 2016 .-- 606 p. - ISBN 978-5-9524-5203-9 .
- Erzurum-erzincan
- in French
- Korganoff G. La Participation des Arméniens à la Guerre Mondiale sur le Front du Caucase (1914-1918) : [ fr. ] / Le Général G. Korganoff. - P .: Massis, 1927 .-- 209 s.
- Korganov G. G. Participation of Armenians in the World War on the Caucasian Front (1914-1918) / Per. with fr. Yu. L. Pirumyan , E. E. Dolbakyan . - M .: MAX Press, 2011 .-- 183 p. - ISBN 978-5-317-03563-1 .
Links
- Russian State Library. Forgotten Heroes. Lost victories. The Caucasian Front of World War I 1914-1918 . Virtual exhibitions of the Russian State Library (2014).