Red Army troops capture Krasnovodsk in February…

Red Army troops capture Krasnovodsk in February 1920, and establish Bolshevik rule over the Transcaspian province, called the Turkmen province after 1921.

The province forms part of the Turkistan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, while the remaining districts of Turkmenistan are embodied in the Bukharan and Khorezmian Soviet Socialist republics formed in 1920.