Red cossacks

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

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