Turgai uprising (1919)

In 1918, Extraordinary Military Commissar of the Steppe Territory, Alibi Dzhangildin delivered weapons and ammunition from central Russia to the Aktobe front, thanks to which the Bolsheviks were able to intensify their activities in the Aktobe Region in Kazakhstan.

In the spring of 1919, the offensive of Kolchak's troops on the Eastern Front began.

Deciding that the defeat of the Soviet troops was close, in April 1919, members of the Alash party rebelled in Turgai and arrested the military commissar of the Turgai district Amankeldı İmanov.

Retreating, the Alash Orda troops carried out the execution of the captured Red commanders.

Subsequently, within two months, Mogilev’s detachment, with the participation of the Alash regiment, had also liberated Yrgyz and Shalkar from the Reds[6]

Map of Turgai Oblast, 1913