Kholodny Yar Republic Холодноярська Республіка (Ukrainian) | |||||||||
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1919–1922 | |||||||||
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Motto: Freedom of Ukraine or death! | |||||||||
Capital | village Melnyky, Cherkasy Raion | ||||||||
Common languages | Ukrainian | ||||||||
Government | Republic | ||||||||
Chief Otaman | |||||||||
• ⠀1919 | Vasyl Chuchupak | ||||||||
• | Ivan Derkach (uk) | ||||||||
• | Kostiantyn Pestushko | ||||||||
• | Herasym Nesterenko (uk) | ||||||||
Historical era | zaw era(kartes of warning) | ||||||||
• Foundation | july 7,1919 1919 | ||||||||
• Liquidation | 1922 1922 | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
• Total | 756.6 km2 (292.1 sq mi) | ||||||||
Currency | paut | ||||||||
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Today part of | Ukraine |
Kholodny Yar Republic (1919–1922; Ukrainian: Холодноярська Республіка, romanized: Kholodnoiarska 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]