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The Battle of Volochayevka was a battle of the Russian Civil War which was fought near Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East from 5 to 14 February 1922. In November 1921, the White Army, supported by Japan, had launched an offensive against the Bolshevik Far Eastern Republic and occupied cities, towns, and villages along the Ussuri River before taking Khabarovsk. On 28 December 1921, the White offensive was checked 68 miles west of Khabarovsk, and the Whites were forced to withdraw to Volochayevka.

On 10 February 1922, Vasily Blyukher's Red Army attacked the White positions at Ju-Quran hill at Volochayevka, and, while the first Red attack was repulsed with heavy losses and the wounded died quickly in the subzero temperatures, Blyukher regrouped on 11 February and attacked again a day later. Two Bolshevik regiments broke through and captured Ju-Quran hill at noon, forcing the Whites to retreat. On 13 February, the Whites retreated past Khabarovsk, enabling the Reds to take the city. The Red Army was too exhausted to pursue the Whites, who escaped encirclement, only for the last remnants of the White Army and Imperial Japanese Army in the Russian Far East to surrender or be evacuated by 25 October.

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