Black Sea Soviet Republic

The Black Sea Soviet Republic is a Soviet republic within the RSFSR , on the territory of the former Black Sea province . Soviet power in the region was proclaimed on November 25, 1917 by the provincial congress of Soviets in Novorossiysk. On May 30, it was transformed with the Kuban Soviet Republic into the Kuban-Black Sea Soviet Republic ^[1] . The administrative center is Novorossiysk .

On December 6-8, 1917, the Congress of Soviets of the Black Sea Province elected the CEC, in which the Bolsheviks chaired by A. I. Rubin dominated. On February 13, 1918, in the context of the struggle against the Kuban Rada at an expanded meeting of the provincial CEC, the Black Sea Military Revolutionary Headquarters was merged with the All-Russian Revolutionary Committee of the Kuban Region into a single body - the Main Kuban-Black Sea Revolutionary Military Committee (chairman - Y. V. Poluyan . The Kuban Southern Revolutionary Army was organized, whose headquarters was located in the village of the Crimean revolutionary activities were carried out:. nationalization of industrial enterprises, estates, land granting non-resident, has been eliminated the old apparatus of power, introduced the election com Ndira in military units, were preparing elections to the Soviets at all levels.

The Third Congress of Soviets of the Black Sea Province, held on March 10-13 in Tuapse , transformed the Black Sea province into the Black Sea Soviet Socialist Republic. The congress approved the decisions of the 3rd All-Russian Congress of Soviets on the conclusion of the Brest Peace, adopted resolutions on the confiscation of monastery and church property. On May 28-30, 1918, the 3rd Extraordinary Congress of Soviets of the Kuban and the Black Sea Region decided to unite the Black Sea Soviet Republic and the Kuban Soviet Republic into the Kuban-Black Sea Soviet Republic .