The battle for Donbas was a military campaign of the Russian Civil War that lasted from January to May 1919, in which White forces repulsed attacks of the Red Army on the Don Host Oblast and occupied
Burial of miners massacred by the Volunteer Army
Vladimir May-Mayevsky achieved a series of victories over the Red forces during the fighting for Donbas.
Monument to the defense of Luhansk at the turn of April and May 1919 in Ostraya Mogila [ru].
Innokentiy Kozhevnikov, commander of the 13th Army (in the center, with binoculars), surrounded by the crew of an armored train. To the left of him Lyudmila Mokievskaya-Zubok [ru], the only woman in history in command of an armored train; who died in early March in the battle for Debaltseve.
The Donbas operation of 1919 was a military campaign of the Russian Civil War, in which the Southern Front of the Red Army regained control of the Donbas region from the Armed Forces of South Russia.
Reproduction of Vasil Vasilovich Zhuravlov's painting Liberation of Donbas from 1919