Kiev Arsenal January Uprising

January Uprising

Participants of the January Uprising in Kiev

Date	29 January 1918 – 4 February 1918 Storm of Arsenal factory
Location	City of Kiev
Result	The Uprising was extinguished.

Belligerents

Ukrainian People's Republic

Polish Military Organisation

Bolsheviks
Red Guards

Commanders and leaders

Government forces:

Bolshevik Revkom:

Syla Mishchenko
Mykola Kostyuk
Oleksandr Horvits

Casualties and losses

Military dead:
Military wounded:
Military missing:
Total:

Ukrainian People's Republic

Government forces:

Bolshevik Revkom:

Kiev Arsenal January Uprising (Ukrainian: Січневе повстання Sichneve povstannya), sometimes called simply the January Uprising or the January Rebellion, was the Bolshevik organized workers' armed revolt that started on January 29, 1918 at the Kiev Arsenal factory during the Ukrainian-Soviet War. The goal of the uprising was to sabotage the ongoing elections to the Ukrainian Constituent Assembly and to support the advancing Red Army.

The long anticipated Ukrainian Constituent Assembly was to be elected on January 9, 1918 where the Bolsheviks won only 10% of the total votes, but the elections were suspended due to the ongoing Ukrainian-Soviet War as practically all Left-bank Ukraine was occupied by the Russian forces in charge of which was Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko. According to the Third declaration (Universal) the Constituent Assembly was planned to meet on January 22, but this was postponed until the end of military conflict. On January 19 the Soviet government dissolved the Russian Constituent Assembly, while just a day prior to that the government state security forces (Cheka) opened fire on a peace demonstration in support of the constituent assembly. On January 22 another peace demonstration in Moscow was dispersed by gunfire as well.

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