Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic

Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic
Крымская Социалистическая Советская Республика Krymskaja Socialističeskaja Sovetskaja Respublika
1919
Capital		Simferopol
Languages		Russian · Crimean Tatar Ukrainian · German
Government		Socialist republic
Chairman
•	1919	Dmitry Ulyanov
Legislature		Revolutionary committee
Historical era		Russian Civil War
•	Bolshevik invasion of Crimea · Fall of the Second Crimean Regional Government	Mar–Apr 1919
•	Republic established	May 1919
•	White Movement Volunteer army offensive	June 1919
•	Republic defeated and White Movement control established	June 1919
Preceded by Succeeded by Second Crimean Regional Government General Command of the Armed Forces of South Russia
Today part of		Russia (de facto)  Ukraine (de jure)

The Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic (Russian: Крымская Социалистическая Советская Республика or Крымская Советская Социалистическая Республика;Crimean Tatar: Qırım Şuralar Sotsialistik Cumhuriyeti) or the Soviet Socialist Republic of the Crimea was a state allied with Soviet Russia that existed in Crimea for several months in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. It was the second Bolshevik government in Crimea and its capital was Simferopol.

In April 1919, the Bolsheviks invaded Crimea for the second time (the first was in March 1918 and led to the creation of the short-lived Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic). After the conquest of Crimea (with the exception of the Kerch Peninsula) by the 3rd Red Army, a Crimean Regional Party Conference at Simferopol from 28–29 April adopted a resolution forming the Crimean Soviet Socialist Republic and a revolutionary committee government.

By 30 April, the Bolsheviks had occupied the entire peninsula and, on 5 May, the government was formed with Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Vladimir Lenin's brother, as chairman. On 1 June, the Crimean SSR joined in military union with soviet republics in Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, and Latvia.