battle, interwar and Second World War

Proskuriv offensive

Name: Proskuriv offensive
Location: Podolia, Ukraine

Proskuriv offensive was a battle fought in 1919 at Podolia, in what is now Ukraine. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Podolia. It was part of the Ukrainian–Soviet War, which ran from 1917 to 1921. The recorded result: Ukrainian victoryBeginning of the anti-Soviet campaign in Ukraine; Red Army offensive towards Soviet Hungary halted.

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Fought1919

WherePodolia, Ukraine48.683N, 26.583E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeUkrainian victoryBeginning of the anti-Soviet campaign in Ukraine; Red Army offensive towards Soviet Hungary halted

BelligerentsUkrainian People's RepublicagainstRussian SFSR; Ukrainian SSR

Casualties and lossesHeavyandHeavy; 30 cannons captured; 700 wagons captured

Part ofUkrainian–Soviet War1917 to 1921

Where it sits in the Ukrainian–Soviet War

4 placed engagements of the Ukrainian–Soviet War in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	1919 (year precision) to 1919
Place	Podolia, Ukraine 48.683N, 26.583E
Kind	Battle, interwar and Second World War
Casualties and losses	Heavy	Heavy; 30 cannons captured; 700 wagons captured
Commanders	Symon Petliura Oleksandr Udovychenko Volodymyr Salsky Vasyl Tiutiunnyk	Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko Nikolai Semyonov (military leader

Placed at Podolia; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Kamenets 1672, same recorded site
Siege of Kamenets 1655, 0.4 km SW
Battle of Zhvanets 1653, 16 km SW
Siege of Khotin 1788, 19 km S
Battle of Khotyn 1673, 21 km S

In the same war

Before: Kyiv Arsenal January Uprising 1918
After: Trypillian Incident 1919
All 4 engagements of Ukrainian–Soviet War

Elsewhere in 1919

Scuttling of the German Fleet in Scapa Flow United Kingdom
Battle of Cēsis Latvia
Greek landing at Smyrna Turkey
Battle of Paju Estonia
1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine Ukraine

Proskuriv offensive is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 321 in present-day Ukraine.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q135045418, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Proskuriv offensive, revision 1370705120, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.