Provisional Priamurye Government
Provisional Priamurye Government | |||||||||
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| 1921–1923 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Vladivostok | ||||||||
| Common languages | Russian | ||||||||
| Government | Provisional government | ||||||||
• 1921–1922 | Spiridon Merkulov | ||||||||
• Jun–Oct 1922 | Mikhail Diterikhs | ||||||||
• 1922–1923 | Anatoly Pepelyayev (de facto) | ||||||||
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• Established | May 27, 1921 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | June 16, 1923 | ||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | RU | ||||||||
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The Provisional Priamurye Government or Provisional Priamur Government (
Russian State enclave during the Russian Civil War
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History
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The government had its origin in a 1921
Siberian Intervention. The coup was started on May 23, 1921 by the Kappelevtsy, the remnants of Vladimir Kappel's People's Army of Komuch
.
The government was headed by the Merkulov brothers:
Cossack ataman Grigory Semyonov attempted to take power in the Priamurye, but he had no backing from the Japanese and eventually withdrew. The Kappelevtsy and the Semyonovtsy (Semyonov's supporters) despised each other.[citation needed
]
Gradually the Priamurye enclave was expanded to Khabarovsk and then to Spassk, 125 miles north of Vladivostok.[1] The Merkulovs were deposed in June 1922 by the Priamurye Zemsky Sobor (Russian: Приамурский Земский Собор) and replaced by one of Admiral Alexander Kolchak's generals, Mikhail Diterikhs.
In July 1922, a
Patriarch Tikhon was named as the honorary chairman of the sobor. Neither the Grand Duke nor the Patriarch was present. The territory was renamed Priamursky Zemsky Krai and Diterikhs styled himself voyevoda. The army was renamed the Zemskaya Rat
("Territorial Rat'" - the archaic Slavic term rat' means "military force").
When the Japanese withdrew from the Priamurye (June to October 1922), the Soviet army of the Far Eastern Republic retook most of the Priamurye Government territory. The
controlled by Anatoly Pepelyayev at that time; its surrender in June 1923 marked the end of the Russian Civil War
.
See also
- Far Eastern Federal District
- Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
- American Expeditionary Force Siberia
- William Sidney Graves
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Green Ukraine or Zeleny Klyn
- Siberian Intervention
- Yakut Revolt
- Soviet Central Asia
Footnotes
- ISBN 0-7146-5690-9.
References
- Yuri Korolkov, Sovershenno Sekretno, Pri Opasnosti Szhech, Minsk: Belarus Publishers, 1986 (memoirs of the doctor Aleksandr Mikulin).