Simbirsk Operation: Difference between revisions

After [[Capturing Kazan by White Army]] the frontline was not good for [[White Movement|Whites]]: near the [[Kazan]] 2 - 2.5 thousand men had to hold the 100-120 km of front against about 10 thousand men in two armies (2nd and 5th) of Reds. But Whites tried to continue offensive to the railway bridge across the [[Volga River]] near [[Sviyazhsk]]. To support this advance [[Stanislav Čeček]] sent the [[Vladimir Kappel]]'s detachment from the [[Simbirsk]] to Kazan. At August, 27, Kappel landed on the right bank of Volga near Sviyazhsk and tried to attack the positions of Reds, but was crushed by the counterattack of [[Latvian Riflemen]].