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{{flagicon|Russia}} [[White movement]]
* [[Volunteer Army]] <small>(until 8 Jan 1919)</small>
* [[Armed Forces of South Russia]] <small>(from 8 Jan 1919)</small>
| commander1 = {{flagicon|Georgia|1918}} [[Giorgi Mazniashvili]]<br>{{flagicon|Georgia|1918}} [[Ioseb Gedevanishvili]]<br>{{flagicon|Georgia|1918}} [[Valiko Jugheli]]<br>{{flagicon|German Empire}} [[Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein]]
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{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Anton Denikin]]
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{{Southern Front of the Russian Civil War}}
The '''Sochi conflict''' was a three-party
==Background==
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The conflict was preceded by a pro-[[Bolsheviks|Bolshevik]] revolt in [[Abkhazia]]. In March 1918, local Bolsheviks in Abkhazia under the leadership of [[Nestor Lakoba]], a close associate of [[Joseph Stalin]], capitalized on agrarian disturbances and, supported by the revolutionary peasant militias, ''kiaraz'', won power in Sukhumi in April 1918. The [[Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic]], which claimed the region as its part, sanctioned the suppression of the revolt and, on May 17, the [[National Guard of Georgia]] ousted the Bolshevik commune in Sukhumi.
Another revolt took place in June 1918 that made the local Abkhazian government, Abkhaz People's Council, which emerged after the [[February Revolution]] in Russia, to request aid from the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]] and join it as an autonomous entity (June 8, 1918).<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Rayfield |first=Donald
The Georgians armed the [[Kuban Cossacks]], and prevented a Red Army advance south along the Black Sea coast. By the middle of July the Georgians had occupied [[Tuapse]].<ref name=":0" /> Mazniashvili was soon ordered to take control of the Tuapse-[[Maykop]] railway line, the Caspian oil pipeline, and Sochi. Denikin sent E.V. Maslovskii as [[Volunteer Army]]'s representative.<ref name="pk" /> Kenez states, "The first month in the history of the relations between the Volunteer Army and Georgia was the best." The Volunteer Army helped stop a Bolshevik advance on Tuapse, after the Georgians retreated to Sochi.<ref name=pk/>
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On February 6, 1919 the Georgian troops were forced back to the Bzyb river with their commander General Konyev (Koniashvili), and his staff captured by the Russians at [[Gagra]]. Georgia sent reinforcements, but the [[United Kingdom|British]] representatives intervened establishing a demarcation line along the Bzyb. The captured Georgian officers were released.
On March 14, 1919 a Georgian delegation presented at Paris peace conference a project of the borders of the country in which it demanded a part of the former Black Sea province up to the small river Makopse 14 km southeast to the town Tuapse. The negotiations, however, yielded no results.
[[File:People's Guard in Gagra.jpg |thumb|Soldiers of the People's Guard of Georgia and their commander [[Valiko Jugheli]] (far Left) in Gagra, 1919]]
On April 12, 1919, a [[Sukhumi]]-based Georgian People's Guard and army units under General Mazniashvili launched a counteroffensive. Avoiding the British peacekeeping posts at the Bzyb river, they retook Gagra after a bloody clash and, in cooperation with the [[Green armies|"Green"]] Russian guerillas, moved to the Mekhadiri river. The British intervention however halted the Georgian advance. A new demarcation line was established south to Adler, on the [[Psou|Psou River]]. Along the border, a British expeditionary force took positions to prevent further outbreak of the war. On May 23–24, Georgian, Russian Volunteers' and British representatives met in [[Tbilisi]] to find a peace resolution. Actually, this was the end of the conflict. Occasional skirmishes occurred, however, until the late 1919.
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*R. H. Ullman, ''Britain and the Russian Civil War'' (Princeton, 1968), pp. 219–20
*[http://sisauri.tripod.com/politic/abkhazia.htm Georgian-Abkhaz relations in 1918–1921], article by A. Menteshashvili
== References ==
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* Alexandre Bondar, Victoria Rozhkova "Three Days in Tuapse" (2009)
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