The Red Cossacks (Ukrainian: Червоне козацтво, Russian: Червонное казачество) was a military formation of the Soviet government of Ukraine. The formation was created in protection of the Soviet regime in Ukraine, liquidation of nationalistic and counter-revolutionary Central Council and as an opposing force to the Central Council's armed forces, so called "Free Cossacks".
The first regiment was created on 28 December 1917 in Kharkiv by Vitaliy Primakov.
Red Cossack Kuzma Bublyk, 1924
Red Cossacks, November 1923
Kuzma Bublyk in Mykhlia, 1924
Soviet newspaper carrying the particulars of Bublyk's death
Bublyk's funeral in 1925