Donetsk-Krivoi Rog Soviet Republic
| Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Republic within Russian SFSR | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||
 Map of the territory claimed by the Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Republic.
|
||||||||||||
| Capital | Kharkov, later Luhansk | |||||||||||
| Languages | Russian | |||||||||||
| Government | Republics of the Soviet Union | |||||||||||
| Chairman of the Sovnarkom | Fyodor Sergeyev | |||||||||||
| Legislature | Soviet council | |||||||||||
| Historical era | World War I | |||||||||||
| • | Established | 12 February 1918 | ||||||||||
| • | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | 3 March 1918 | ||||||||||
| • | Incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR | 20 March 1918 | ||||||||||
| Currency | Ruble | |||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Today part of | ||||||||||||
The Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic (Russian: Донецко-Криворожская советская республика) was a self-declared Soviet republic of the Russian SFSR founded on 12 February 1918. The republic claimed self-determined territories in treaties of Brest-Litovsk; it was founded three days after the government of Ukraine signed the treaty with Germans, which recognised the borders of Ukrainian People's Republic, within which the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic was located. On 29 March 1918 it became a republic within Ukrainian Soviet Republic, where it was merged with Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets (capital in Kharkov, founded 25 December 1917) and Odessa Soviet Republic (founded 1 March 1918), until the last was fully occupied by the German forces according to treaties of Brest-Litovsk.
The Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic claimed the territories south of the neighbouring Ukrainian People's Republic, which included the Donbass, Kharkov, Yekaterinoslav, and part of the Kherson Governorates. In the beginning, the republic's capital was the city of Kharkov, but later with the retreat of the Red Guard it was moved to Luhansk. The Soviet government of Russia supported it as the existence of the state set an anarchy in the region. The newly created government challenged the authority of the General Secretariat of Ukraine and the People's Secretariat. Some of the commissars held positions of secretaries in another Bolshevik government in Ukraine, the People's Secretariat.
...
Wikipedia