Donetsk province (DKSR)

Donbass, as an independent administrative unit, appeared even before the creation of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic on December 17, 1917 at the 1st Donbass Revolutionary Conference at which the Central Exhibition Center was created. After the creation of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic, representatives of the Donbass agreed that the Central Control Commission would act as a provincial revolutionary committee. To secure the de facto gubernial rights, the Central Administrative District Central Administrative Commission developed a draft of a new administrative unit of the Donetsk province;

The proclamation of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic and the reaction of the local population to its creation was left by the activist of the first Donetsk province, a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Ostrogorsky Mikhail Ivanovich:

  "... the Kharkov Bolsheviks who created the Donetsk - Krivoy Rog Republic, in their motives did not rely on the clearly expressed idea of ​​the Donbass Bolshevik organizations. The feeling of great satisfaction with which the Donbass Party organizations and the working masses met the formation of the Donetsk - Krivoy Rog Republic, stemmed from the realization of the last need for the creation their strong Donbass organizational centers, but this fact does not mean at all that the Donbass Bolsheviks in all respects shared the positions of the Kharkov Bolsheviks in their attitude  NII to TsIKUK'e. " 

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To this end, the CEACD convened at the end of February 1918 in Yuzovka a special meeting of representatives of all mining districts from Grishino to Belaya Kalitva , which developed a draft border for the new province and its division into districts (counties). But in connection with the outbreak of hostilities, the project of the province was not approved by the DSCR SNK ^[4] . The province lasted from December 17 to April 26, 1918.

• The Red Guard of Donbass - from December 19, 1917 to February 17, 1918.

• The Red Army of Donbass - February 17 to March 27, 1918.

• Donetsk Army - from March 27 to April 20, 1918.

• 5th Red Army - from April 20 - June 23, 1918.

The military power of the first Donetsk province in the person of the Central Headquarters of the Red Guard of Donbass was extended to the headquarters of the Red Guard and local councils, based on documents on such territories and settlements: ^[5]

The authority of the TsVRKD over the Bakhmut, Mariupol, Slavianoserbsky districts and Taganrog district was recognized by the SNK of the DKR . So the Council of People's Commissars of the DKR on February 23, 1918 instructed the TsVRKD as the executive body of local councils to levy an extraordinary tax on the bourgeoisie of Yuzovka, Lugasnka, Mariupol, Taganrog, Bakhmut. ^[6]

Bakhmut County

• Bakhmut, Grishino , Druzhkovka , Debaltseve , Enakievo , Kramatorsk , Konstantinovka , Lisichansk , Gorlovka .

Mariupol County

• Mariupol.

Slavyanoserbsky district

• Diamond , Lugansk , Popasnaya , Rovenki .

Taganrog District

• Vlasovka, Amvrosievka , Makeevka , Matveev Kurgan , Taganrog, Ilovaisk , Sverdlovsk , Krasnyi Luch , Torez .

Donetsk district

• Red Sulin , Grushevskaya , Zverevo , Kamensk Shakhtinsk .

Also, the Red Guard headquarters that were subordinate to the Central Command and Control Department were outside the province

• Kharkov
• Slavyansk
• Berdyansk
• Meletopol
• Dnieper

• Harechko, Taras Ivanovich

County Commissars

Bakhmut County

• Kazimirchuk Peter G. - end of January - April 1918

Mariupol County

• Varganov, Vasily Afanasevich - January 1 - April 8, 1918

Starobelsky County

• Shevtsov, Dmitry Iosifovich - January 19 - March 1, 1918

Slavyanoserbsky district

• Lutovinov, Yuri Khrisanfovich - March - April 10, 1918

Taganrog District

• Ivan Rodionov - January 20 - April 17, 1918.

Donetsk district

• Kovalev, Victor Semenovich

• Al Donetsk . "We have not forgotten!" . A play about the struggle against German occupiers on the Don (ave. East Donbass) in 1918. In 7 pictures with a prologue. Rostov Regional Publishing House. Rostov on Don 1941

• Chronicle of the revolution. 1927. No. 5-6 (26-27). History magazine. Until 1929, it became the governing body of the Istpartu of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) U, and then - the governing body of the Institute of the Socialist Party and the Zhovtnev Revolution in Ukraine under the Central Committee of the CP (b) U. 1922-1933.
• The proletarian revolution on the Don. Sat 4. Rostov-on-Don, 1924.