February Uprising

February Uprising
	Part of Sovietization of Armenia and Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
	; Headline in The New York Times from March 17, 1921
Date	February – April 1921
Location	Armenia
Result	Uprising quelled Power temporarily seized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation; Establishment of the Republic of Mountainous Armenia in Zangezur;
Belligerents
Armenian Revolutionary Federation	Revolutionary committee (Revkom) of Armenia; Supported by: Soviet Russia; Soviet Azerbaijan;
Commanders and leaders
Simon Vratsian ; Garegin Njdeh ; Suren Tarkhanan	Anatoliy Gekker; Sarkis Kasyan; Avis Nurijanyan
Units involved
Salvation Committee of the Fatherland	11th Red Army
Strength
~10,000 (April)	unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown	200 (in mid-April, Soviet claim)

The February Uprising (Armenian: Փետրվարյան ապստամբություն, romanized: P’etrvaryan apstambut’yun)^[a] was an anti-Bolshevik rebellion by the nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation which started on February 13 and was suppressed on April 2, 1921, by the recapture of Yerevan by Bolshevik forces.

^ Hakobyan, Tatul (2 April 2015). "Ապրիլ 2, 1921թ. տխուր օր, որ չենք հիշում". ANI Armenian Research Center (in Armenian). Archived from the original on 5 April 2015.
^ ^a ^b Hakobian, A (1986). "Փետրվարյան խռովություն 1921". Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia Volume 12 (in Armenian). p. 334.

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[1] Hakobyan, Tatul (2 April 2015). "Ապրիլ 2, 1921թ. տխուր օր, որ չենք հիշում". ANI Armenian Research Center (in Armenian). Archived from the original on 5 April 2015.

[ASE-2] Hakobian, A (1986). "Փետրվարյան խռովություն 1921". Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia Volume 12 (in Armenian). p. 334.

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