Conventional Long Name: | Provisional Government of the Northern Region (Severnaya Oblast) Временное правительство Северной области (ВПСО) Severnyy Krai Северный край |
Common Name: | Northern Region |
Era: | World War I Russian Civil War |
Government Type: | Provisional government Krai of the Russian State (1919-1920) |
Event Start: | Established |
Date Start: | 28 September |
Year Start: | 1918 |
Event End: | Arkhangelsk and Murmansk was reintegrated into the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic |
Date End: | 21 February |
Year End: | 1920 |
P1: | Supreme Administration of Northern Region |
Flag P1: | Flag of Russia.svg |
P2: | Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic |
Flag P2: | Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918–1925).svg |
S1: | Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic |
Flag S1: | Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918–1925).svg |
S2: | Republic of Finland |
Flag S2: | Flag of Finland.svg |
Image Map Caption: | The Provisional Government of the Northern Region on September 1918. |
Capital: | Arkhangelsk (until 19 February 1920)[1] |
Common Languages: | Russian |
Leader1: | Alexander Kolchak |
Year Leader1: | 18 November 1918-15 January 1920 |
Title Leader: | Supreme Ruler |
Representative1: | Nikolai Tchaikovsky |
Year Representative1: | 28 September 1918-19 February 1920 |
Title Representative: | Chairman |
Deputy1: | Yevgeny Miller |
Year Deputy1: | 10 September 1919-19 February 1920 |
Title Deputy: | Chief administrator |
The Provisional Government of the Northern Region (Severnaya Oblast), also called Severnyy Krai, was a White movement, Anti-Bolshevik left-wing, and Allied provisional government and a krai of the Russian State.
On 28 September 1918, Provisional Government of the Northern Region was established. In October 1918, the Northern Region recognized the supreme authority of the Ufa Directory, along with abolishing all the soviets and restored zemstvos.[2] On 30 April 1919, the Northern Region recognized the supreme authority of the Provisional All-Russian Government. On 19 October 1919, the Northern Region turned into department for civil affairs under chief administrator of Northern Region but use of former name (Provisional Government of the Northern Region) continued. On 19 February 1920, the Northern Region government evacuated from Arkhangelsk to Norway. On 21 February 1920, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk was reintegrated into the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. On 13 March 1920, regular Soviet troops reached Murmansk.[3]
On 2 February 1920, the Murmansk Governorate was created by a resolution of the Provisional Government of the Provisional Government of the Northern Region. It included Alexandrovsky and Kemsky Uyezds of Arkhangelsk Governorate and parts of the Olonets Governorate.[4]
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political party | Head of State | ||||||
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Nikolai Tchaikovsky (1851–1926) | 28 September 1918 | 19 February 1920 | ||||||||
Ufa Directory | ||||||||||
Alexander Kolchak (1918 — 1920) | ||||||||||
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political party | Head of State | |||
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Pyotr Zubov (1871–1942) | 23 January 1919 | 10 February 1920 | Constitutional Democratic Party | ||||
Yevgeny Miller (1867–1939) | 10 February 1919 | 19 February 1920 | Independent | ||||
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political party | Head of State | |||
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Yevgeny Miller (1867–1939) | 10 September 1919 | 19 February 1920 | Independent | ||||
Alexander Kolchak (1918 — 1920) | |||||||
During its height of control, the Provisional Government of the Northern Region controlled the overwhelming majority of the Arkhangelsk Governorate (using the 1917 governorate borders of the Russian Republic), about half of the Olonets Governorate (using the 1917 governorate borders of the Russian Republic), and a tiny part of the Vologda Governorate (using the 1917 governorate borders of the Russian Republic).