Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic

Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic
Донецко-Криворожская советская республика
Republic within Russian SFSR
1918
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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
Preceded by Succeeded by Russian SFSR Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainian Soviet Republic
Today part of		Ukraine  Russia

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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 recognized 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 December 25, 1917) and Odessa Soviet Republic (founded on March 1st, 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.