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Turgai uprising
Part of Russian Civil War
Location of Turgai in the Russian Empire.
Date April 1919 Location Turgai, Kazakhstan Result Alash victory
Belligerents
Russian SFSR	Alash-Orda
Commanders and leaders
Amankeldı İmanov  Lavrenty Taran	Mirjaqip Dulatuli
Strength
337	unknown
Casualties and losses
Entire force	unknown

The Turgai uprising is an episode of the Russian Civil War in April 1919, when Kazakh autonomists organised a successful uprising against the Bolsheviks in Northwestern Kazakhstan.

Background

In 1918, Extraordinary Military Commissar of the Steppe Territory, Alibi Dzhangildin delivered weapons and ammunition from central Russia to the Aktobe front, thanks to which the Bolsheviks were able to intensify their activities in the Aktobe Region in Kazakhstan. In November 1918, Soviet power was established in Turgai.

Uprising

In the spring of 1919, the offensive of Kolchak's troops on the Eastern Front began. Deciding that the defeat of the Soviet troops was close, in April 1919, members of the Alash party rebelled in Turgai and arrested the military commissar of the Turgai district Amankeldı İmanov.

At this time, a detachment of Red partisans from Kostanay, consisting of 337 men under the command of the chairman of the executive committee of the Kostanay Soviet, Lavrenty Taran, approached Turgai. On April 22, the detachment was disarmed by the Alash Horde, and its leaders were arrested.

Results and consequences

Soon after Taran's detachment, a second detachment under command of Zhilyayev, arrived from Kostanay in Turgai. It defeated the Orda Alash troops and captured Turgai. Retreating, the Alash Orda troops carried out the execution of the captured Red commanders.

After the departure of Zhelaev's detachment to Yrgyz, Turgai was again occupied by the Alash-Orda.The Alash detachment then came under the operational control of the White Orenburg Cossacks detachment under the command of Staff Captain Mogilev. Mogilev's detachment arrived in Turgai and pursued the Red partisan detachment of Zhilyayev. Subsequently, within two months, Mogilev’s detachment, with the participation of the Alash regiment, had also liberated Yrgyz and Shalkar from the Reds

External links

• Контрреволюционный переворот в Тургае

References

1. Қазақ Совет энциклопедиясы, 1976 жыл, Алматы,10 том, 554-555 бет
2. Советская военная энциклопедия в восьми томах
3. Амангельды Иманов - E-history.kz
4. «Самая страшная месть — забвение»
5. Казахский аул в трех революциях, 266 страница
6. Abdygaliuli Berik. Military formations of the Alash-Ord (1918-1920). - Astana: Glym, 2017. - p. 41–47.

• Kazakhstan in the Russian Civil War
• Conflicts in 1919
• Anti-Bolshevik uprisings
• April 1919