Battle of Kruty
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The Battle of Kruty (Ukrainian: Битва під Крутами, Bytva pid Krutamy) was a battle which took place on January 29, 1918, near Kruty, a small railway connection about 130 kilometres northeast of Kiev, Ukraine (in the Nizhyn Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire.).
As Bolshevik forces of about 4,000 men, commanded by Mikhail Muraviev, advanced toward Kiev, a small Ukrainian National Republic unit of 500 schoolboys (some sources give a figure of 300 [1][2]), commanded by Captain Ahapiy Honcharenko, was hastily organized and sent to the front. The small unit consisted mainly of the Student Battalion (Kurin) of Sich Riflemen, a unit of the Khmelnytsky Cadet School, and a Haidamaka detachment. About half of the 500 men were killed during the battle. However, their resistance delayed Muraviev's capture of Kiev and enabled the then Ukrainian government to conclude the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Today, the battle is commemorated as a symbol of patriotic self-sacrifice and is remembered each year on or around January 29.
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- Inline
- ^ Subtelny, Orest (2000). Ukraine: A History. University of Toronto Press, 352. ISBN 0-8020-8390-0.
- ^ History of Ukraine (Ukrainian). History of Ukraine. Retrieved on September 12, 2006.
- General
- Kruty, Battle of (English). Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved on August, 15, 2006.
- Soldatenko, Valeriy. «І справжні, не фальшиві фарби»? Kruty: an attempt of the historic interpretation" in Zerkalo Nedeli, January 28 - February 3, 2006. Available in Russian and in Ukrainian.
- The president opened a memorial to the Heroes of Kruty (Russian). Korrespondent. Retrieved on August 25, 2006.
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