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Basmach

Basmachi movement
Part of World War I and the Russian Civil War
Date 1916–1934
Location Russian Turkestan
Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
 Russian Empire (1916–1917)
Flag of Russia.svg Russian Republic (1917)
 Russian SFSR
Flag of Turkestan ASSR (1919-1921).svg Turkestan ASSR

Flag of Khiva 1920-1923.svg Khorezm SSR
Flag of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic.svg Bukharan PSR


 Soviet Union (from December 30, 1922)

Bandera del Turquestan.svg Basmachi
Bandera de Khiva 1917-1920.svg Khiva (1918–1920)
Flag of Russia.svg White Army (1919–1920)
Flag of the Emirate of Bukhara.svg Bukhara (1920)


Flag of Afghanistan (1929).svg Afghanistan (1929)
Commanders and leaders

Flag of the Russian SFSR (1918-1920).svg Mikhail Frunze
Flag of the Russian SFSR (1918-1920).svg Grigori Sokolnikov
Flag of the Russian SFSR (1918-1920).svg Flag of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic.svg Fayzulla Khodzhayev
Flag of the Russian SFSR (1918-1920).svg Aleksandr Cherepanov
Flag of the Russian SFSR (1918-1920).svg Vitaly Primakov
Flag of the Russian SFSR (1918-1920).svg Magaza Masanchi


Flag of Afghanistan (1929–1931).svg Mohammed Nadir Shah

Bandera del Turquestan.svg Enver Pasha 
Bandera del Turquestan.svg Ibrahim Bek 
Bandera del Turquestan.svg Irgash Bey
Bandera del Turquestan.svg Madamin Bey
Bandera del Turquestan.svg Junaid Khan
Flag of the Emirate of Bukhara.svg Mohammed Alim Khan


Flag of Afghanistan (1929).svg Habibullāh Kalakāni 
Strength
120,000–160,000 Perhaps 30,000 at its height, over 20,000 (late 1919)
Casualties and losses
Officially 516 killed and 925 wounded Unknown
Tens of thousands of civilians killed. Several hundred thousand Kazakh and Kyrgyz people killed or evicted. Unknown number killed by starvation.

Flag of Khiva 1920-1923.svg Khorezm SSR
Flag of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic.svg Bukharan PSR

Bandera del Turquestan.svg Basmachi
Bandera de Khiva 1917-1920.svg Khiva (1918–1920)
Flag of Russia.svg White Army (1919–1920)
Flag of the Emirate of Bukhara.svg Bukhara (1920)


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