On February 12, Fort Kara-gobek was taken. On the 13th, the Russians continued their attacks.
On February 14, Fort Tafet was taken, and with that the Russians had penetrated through both rings of the cities's defenses.
By February 15, the remaining forts surrounding Erzurum were evacuated.
Early in the morning of February 16, Russian cossacks were among the first to enter the city. Turkish units had successfully withdrawn and avoided encirclement, however casualties were already high. 327 pieces of artillery were lost to the Russians. Support units of the Third Army and around 250 wounded at the hospital of Erzurum were taken prisoner.
While aerial reconnaissance revealed that the Turks were retreating, the Russian pursuit was not effective as it could have been. Meanwhile remnants of the X and XI Corps established another defensive line, 8 kilometers east of Erzurum.
