Odessa-Nikolaev March

French tanks in Odessa, 1919

Date	February - April 1919
Location	Odessa and Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Result	Allied evacuation

Belligerents

France

Kingdom of Greece

Ukrainian People's Republic

Red Army
Green armies (after February 18)

Commanders and leaders

Philippe Henri Joseph d'Anselme (French)
Konstantinos Nider (Greece)
Nikifor Grigoriev (Ukrainian, switched sides to Red Army February 18)

Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (Red Army)
Nikifor Grigoriev (after February 18)

Strength

15,000 French
2,000 Greeks

The Odessa-Nikolaev March was a campaign of the Russian Civil War that took place in Ukraine.

French and Greek troops, which had landed in Odessa on 18 December 1918, marched towards Mykolaiv and occupied the city on 31 January 1919. When the Red Army under command of Nikifor Grigoriev approached in March 1919, the allies evacuated the city between 12 and 14 March without a fight.

Southern Front
of the Russian Civil War

Kharkiv (1917)
Kiev (1918)
Transcaucasia
Baku (1918)
Donbass-Don
Kuban(1)
Steppe March
Iassy-Don
Crimea (1918)
Kuban(2)
Tsaritsyn
Voronezh-Povorino
Ekaterinoslav March
Northern Caucasus (1918-1919)
Ukraine (1918-1919)
Odessa-Nikolaev
Ukraine (1919)
Grigoriev Uprising
Vyoshenskaya Uprising
Mamantov Raid
Counteroffensive of Southern Front
Advancing on Moscow
Nizhyn-Poltava
Kiev (January 1919)
Odessa (1919)
Alexander Fort
Kiev (August 1919)
Kiev (December 1919)
Khopyor-Don
Kharkiv (June 1919)
Kharkiv (December 1919)
Pavlograd-Ekaterinoslav
Donbass (1919)
Rostov-Novocherkassk
Odessa (1920)
Northern Caucasus (1920)
Baku (1920)
Anzali
Ulagaj Landing
Azov Sea
Northern Taurida
Makhnovshchina
Tambov Rebellion
Perekop-Chongar
Georgia

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