Kholodny Yar Republic

Kholodny Yar Republic
Холодноярська Республіка (Ukrainian)
1919–1922
Flag of Kholodny Yar Republic
Flag
Motto: Freedom of Ukraine or death!
Kholodny Yar forest was the center of the republic
Kholodny Yar forest was the center of the republic
Capitalvillage Melnyky, Cherkasy Raion
Common languagesUkrainian
GovernmentRepublic
Chief Otaman 
• ⠀1919
Vasyl Chuchupak
• 
Ivan Derkach (uk)
• 
Kostiantyn Pestushko
• 
Herasym Nesterenko (uk)
Historical erazaw era(kartes of warning)
• Foundation
july 7,1919 1919
• Liquidation
1922 1922
Area
• Total
756.6 km2 (292.1 sq mi)
Currencypaut
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Ukrainian People's Republic
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Today part ofUkraine
One of the variants of the flag of the Kholodny Yar Republic

Kholodny Yar Republic (1919–1922; Ukrainian: Холодноярська Республіка, romanizedKholodnoiarska Respublika, lit.'Cold Ravine Republic') was a self-proclaimed state formation, partisan movement, which ran on part of the lands of the former Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR — or Ukrainian National Republic, UNR), in the Chyhyryn district of the Kyiv province (modern Cherkasy Oblast), in the area of the Kholodny Yar forest tract. The village of Melnyky was its capital. It had a 15,000-strong army composed of peasants and soldiers from the UNR army, which was defeated by the White Army in Podolia earlier.[1]

Kholodny Yar Republic was the last territory in which Ukrainians continued to fight for an independent Ukrainian state before the incorporation of Ukraine into the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian SSR., and therefore was an important part of the Ukrainian War of Independence.[2]

  1. ^ "Uprising in Lukyanovka Prison: How the Last Battle of the Cold Yar Atamans took place". Espresso TV (in Ukrainian). 9 February 2020.
  2. ^ Doskoch, Viktoriya (7 October 2018). "Ukrainian writer & publisher: Language is the most important marker of national identity". Euromaidan Press. Retrieved 18 June 2020.

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