At the end of February, the Whites pushed back the left flank of the Reds' 2nd Army, forcing it to retreat.

[1] On 15 April soldiers of Siberian Army's right flank made contact with detachments of the Northern Front in a sparsely populated area near the Pechora River.

After four days of fighting the Red 5th Army was crushed, its remains retreated onto Simbirsk and Samara.

As a result, the Red Army was able to stop the White advance on the southern flank and to prepare its counteroffensive.

On April 22, Mikhail Frunze launched his successful Eastern Front counteroffensive against the over-extended Western Army.