Yakut revolt (1918)

After the February Revolution of 1917 in Russia, ethnic Yakuts began politically organizing and forming their own local committees. Following the Bolshevik seizure of power during the October Revolution of 1917, the Yakut committees were merged into an anti-Bolshevik autonomous regional administration, the "Yakut Committee to Safeguard the Revolution". After the formal proclamation of the Russian Soviet Republic in January 1918, the Committee declared the independence of Yakutia in reaction to these events. This independent government was overthrown on July 1[1] by the intervention of Soviet troops from Irkutsk.[2]

Yakut revolt
Part of the Russian Civil War
DateFebruary 1918 – 1 July 1918
Location
Yakutia
Result Soviet victory, end of Yakutia
Territorial
changes
Yakutia retaken by Soviets
Belligerents

Russian SFSR

Yakutia
Commanders and leaders
A. S. Rydzinski V. V. Popov
P. A. Bondaletov

References

  1. "Yakutia-from 1917".
  2. James Forsyth (1994). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990. Cambridge University Press. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-0-521-47771-0.
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