


Vasily Shorin (February 11 – October 18, 1922),.Vladimir Lazarevich (Ma– February 11, 1922),.Grigori Sokolnikov (Septem– March 8, 1921),.Mikhail Frunze (Aug– September 10, 1920),.


Until mid-October 1919, the Turkestan Front fought against the Ural Cossack Army of General Vladimir Tolstov and the Army of Anton Denikin in the lower Volga and the Ural River. In 1919, the troops of the Turkestan Front defeated the Southern Army of Admiral Kolchak, broke through the blockade of Turkestan (September 13, 1919) and joined with the troops of the Turkestan Soviet Republic. In May–July 1919 troops of the Turkestan Front defeated the Turkestan Army, an armed Formation of the AFSR in the Caspian region. Its headquarters were in Samara and by 1920 the Turkestan Front counted some 114,000 soldiers. It was formed a second time by the directive of the Commander-in-Chief on Augon the territory of Samara, Astrakhan, Orenburg Province and Ural region by renaming the Southern group of armies from the Eastern Front of the RSFSR. The Turkestan Front ( Russian: Туркестанский фронт) was a front of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, which was formed on the territory of Turkestan Military District by Order of the Republic of Turkestan on February 23, 1919.
