On 23 March, Korobeinikov's Yakut People's Army, armed with six machine guns, captured the major town of Yakutsk.

On 27 April, the Russian Bolshevik government declared the Yakut ASSR and sent an expedition to put down the uprising.

On 30 August, the Pacific Ocean Fleet, crewed by about 750 volunteers under Lieutenant General Anatoly Pepelyayev, sailed from Vladivostok to assist the White Russian forces.

By the end of October, when Pepelyayev captured the locality of Nelkan, he learned that the Bolsheviks had wrested Vladivostok from the White Army and the Civil War was over.

Pepelyayev himself was captured after the battle of Ayan, and he would spend the next 13 years in the gulag camps before being executed during the Stalinist purges in 1938.