Yaroslavl Uprising

Yaroslavl Uprising
Part of Civil War in Russia
DateJuly 6–21, 1918
Location
Yaroslavl and surroundings
Result
  • Rebellion suppressed
Belligerents
Bolsheviks Union for the Defense of the Motherland and Freedom
Commanders and leaders
Mikhail Frunze
Anatoly Gekker
Yuri Guzarsky
Alexander Perkhurov 
Peter Karpov 
Strength
July 6, 1918:
About 1,000 bayonets and sabers
At the end of the uprising:
Aircraft
Heavy artillery
July 6, 1918:
105 soldiers with 12 revolvers
At the end of the uprising:
1735–2135 bayonets
2 cannon armored cars
15 machine guns
2 guns
1 armored train
Casualties and losses
Unknown About 600 killed (in battles)

The Yaroslavl Uprising (known in Soviet historiography as the Yaroslavl Rebellion) was an episode of the Civil War in Russia, an anti–Bolshevik protest by the townspeople and members of Boris Savinkov's organization in Yaroslavl on July 6–21, 1918. Suppressed by the forces of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. The uprising began untimely, since the Extraordinary Commission by that moment had begun arresting the Moscow branch of the Union for the Defense of the Motherland and Freedom. This inopportune and inability to coordinate with other anti–Bolshevik forces around the region of the uprising predetermined an unfortunate outcome. The lack of reinforcements and ammunition from the rebels also affected.