Battle for Katerynoslav
Part of Soviet – Ukrainian War
DateJanuary 9–11, 1918
Location
city of Ekaterinoslav, Ukrainian People's Republic
Result Victory of Bolsheviks, temporary occupation of Katerynoslav by Soviet troops[1]
Belligerents
Central Council Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Yekaterinoslav Revkom
Commanders and leaders
Mykola Porsh
Dmytro Abrynba †		 Vasiliy Averin
Pavel Yegorov
Units involved
134th Feodosiya Regiment
Free Cossacks Kurin
Volunteer Haidamaka Kurin		 Bryanka factory Red Guards
Orlyk Serdiuk Regiment
1st Moscow Revolutionary
Strength
1,500 3,000
Casualties and losses
unknown 21 dead, several dozen wounded

The 1918 Ekaterinoslav uprising (Ukrainian: Катеринославське збройне повстання) was a Bolshevik-led uprising in Ekaterinoslav (modern Dnipro) on January 9–11, 1918 that later was supported by the Yegorov's Red Guards of Soviet expeditionary group and grew into open intervention into Ukrainian internal affairs and the war against the Central Council of Ukraine.[2]

The Bolsheviks lost control of the city when on April 5, 1918 the German Imperial army (during the 1918 German intervention in Ukraine) took control of it.[1]

Series of events

One important part in the uprising was the bolshevization of the Ekaterinoslav Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies (November 1917) as well as the creation of a military revolutionary headquarters headed by Vasiliy Averin. The Bolsheviks managed to form a company of 3,000 Red Guards, conducted revolutionary agitation among the city garrison soldiers, and developed and approved uprising plans with the headquarters of the invading Russian Red Forces. By that time Kharkiv was taken over on December 25, 1917 by Russian troops led by Khovrin and Sivers who arrived to Kharkiv at night on December 22. Soon after the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets in Kharkiv on December 25, the Russian expeditionary group split with Antonov and continued on to Don, while his chief of staff Muravyov took charge with military operations in Ukraine.

On 1 January 1918 Yegorov's troops took Pavlohrad and on January 5 they occupied Synelnykove and Novomoskovsk stopping just outside the city limits of Ekaterinoslav. The same day the chairman of General Secretary of the Ukrainian People's Republic Volodymyr Vynnychenko dismissed Symon Petliura from the position of Military Secretary.[3] On 7 January 1918 the city's garrison brought from Oleksandrivsk (Zaporizhia) an armored car. At night local Red Guards stole the car stationed at the Brayanka factory yard and the next day city administration requested the vehicle to be returned before 14:00. The request was completely ignored. On 8 January 1918 Ukrainian forces shelled the Bryansk Factory (the center of the uprising) and workers’ settlements. The city's Red Guards and garrison soldiers routed Ukrainian forces in the Kaidaky and Amur-Nyzhnodniprovsky city districts and captured the railway station, the telegraph, and other government institutions. The insurgents were supported by the Moscow and Petrograd Red Guard forces of Pavel Yegorov, who arrived from Synelnykove.

On 11 January 1918 the city post office, which was the last resort of the anti-Bolsheviks forces, was taken by force. On the same day the Soviet regime was established in the city.

Aftermath

The Bolsheviks were able to keep the city under their control until 4 April 1918.[4] On 5 April 1918 the German Imperial army (during the 1918 German intervention in Ukraine) took control of it.[1]

Ekaterinoslav ultimately came under the control of the Bolsheviks on 30 December 1919.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 War Without Fronts: Atamans and Commissars in Ukraine, 1917-1919 by Mikhail Akulov, Harvard University, August 2013 (page 102 and 103)
    (in Ukrainian) City of Katerynoslav in 1917-20. Dnipropetrovsk city portal (2001)
  2. ↑ Battle in Katerynoslav, 1917
  3. ↑ Tynchenko, Ya. Conflict between the Central Council and the Soviet People's Commissariat. First Ukrainian-Bolshevik War (December 1917 - March 1918). Kyiv: "Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies", 1996.
  4. ↑ "Historical reference". Dnipropetrovsk Oblast official website (in Ukrainian). 31 July 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  5. ↑ I. S. Storazhenko (2001). "The city of Katerinoslav in 1917-1920". gorod.dp.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 26 October 2022.
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