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850:Vladimir May-Mayevsky
842:battle for the Donbas
585:Vyoshenskaya Uprising
354:Casualties and losses
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1109:"ДОНБАСЬКА ОПЕРАЦІЯ"
927:'s 2nd Kuban Corps,
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16:For other uses, see
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523:Allied intervention
53:Zvilnennya Donbassu
1304:C. Hurst & Co.
961:Grigory Sokolnikov
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590:Alexandrovsky Fort
540:Katerynoslav March
225:Grigori Sokolnikov
1337:Conflicts in 1919
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605:2nd Kharkiv
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1326:Categories
1252:0974493457
1207:Kenez 2004
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1167:Kenez 2004
1150:Smele 2015
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769:2nd Crimea
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971:Offensive
953:Sloviansk
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453:Ice March
349:3,000 men
319:13th Army
55:from 1919
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866:Kupiansk
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665:4th Kiev
620:3rd Kiev
575:Binagadi
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518:Dibrivka
503:Kurdamir
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