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Odessa Soviet Republic
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![Area claimed by the Odessa Soviet Republic in March 1918 (in green)[citation needed]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Odessa_Soviet_Republic_within_Ukraine_%28de_facto%29.png)
Area claimed by the Odessa Soviet Republic in March 1918 (in green)[citation needed]
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| Status | Puppet stateofSoviet Russia | ||||||||||||
| Capital | Odessa | ||||||||||||
| Government | Soviet republic | ||||||||||||
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• 1918 | Vladimir Yudovsky [ru] | ||||||||||||
| Legislature | Council of the People's Commissars | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | World War I | ||||||||||||
• Republic proclaimed | 17 January 1918 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 13 March 1918 | ||||||||||||
| Currency | Odessa ruble | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Ukraine Moldova | ||||||||||||
The Odessa Soviet Republic (OSR; Ukrainian: Одеська Радянська Республіка, romanized: Odeska Radianska Respublika; Russian: Одесская Советская Республика) was a short-lived Soviet republic formed on 30 January [O.S. 17 January] 1918 from parts of the Kherson and Bessarabia Governorates of the former Russian Empire.
The republic was proclaimed during the Bolshevik invasion of Ukraine immediately before Bolshevik forces pushed the Ukrainian government out of Kiev and Sfatul Țării proclaimed the independence of the Moldavian Democratic Republic. The Odessa Soviet's governing body was the Rumcherod, formed in May 1917 shortly after the February Revolution. After its Second Congress, the OSR's Soviet was chaired by Vladimir Yudovsky. He had been installed after a pro-Bolshevik coup d'état organized by the Narkom Nikolai Krylenko.
In January 1918, Yudovsky was appointed Chairman of the local Council of the People's Commissars and formed a government that included Bolsheviks, anarchists and members of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. The government proclaimed Odessaafree city and pledged allegiance to the Bolshevik government in Petrograd. The following month, the government was liquidated by Mikhail Muravyov and merged with the regional Central Executive Committee Rumcherod.[citation needed]
Political instability meant that the OSR was not recognized by any other government, including Russian Bolsheviks, during its brief existence. The Republic failed to stop the Romanian occupationofBessarabia, a region to which it laid claim. It ceased to exist altogether when it was sacked by German and Austro-Hungarian troops on 13 March 1918, two months after its creation, following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between the Central Powers, Ukrainian People's Republic and Petrograd Sovnarkom. The government and army evacuated first to Nikolayev, then to Sevastopol and finally to Rostov-on-Don.
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