Don Republic
Don Republic Всевеликое Войско Донское Vsevelikoe Voisko Donskoe | |||||||||||
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| 1918–1920 | |||||||||||
 Flag
 Coat of arms
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| Anthem: Всколыхнулся, взволновался православный Тихий Дон (Russian) ...[Quiet] Flows the Don | |||||||||||
 Map of the Don Host Oblast (green). | |||||||||||
| Capital | Novocherkassk | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Russiana | ||||||||||
| Religion | Eastern Orthodoxy | ||||||||||
| Government | Parliamentary republic | ||||||||||
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• 1918–1919 | Pyotr Krasnov | ||||||||||
• 1919–1921 | Afrikan Bogaevsky | ||||||||||
| Legislature | Krug | ||||||||||
| Historical era | World War I | ||||||||||
• Proclaimed | May 18 1918 | ||||||||||
• Russian occupation | 1920 | ||||||||||
| Currency | Russian (Don) ruble | ||||||||||
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The Don Republic (Russian: Донская Республика; Ukrainian: Донська Республіка), later known as the Almighty Don Host (Russian: Всевеликое Войско Донское Vsevelikoe Voisko Donskoe; Ukrainian: Всевелике Військо Донське Vsevelike Viisko Donskoe), was an anti-Bolshevik state formed during the Russian Civil War after the collapse of the Russian Empire. It was also the name of two organizations formed in the 1990s.
The independence was proclaimed by the assembly of Don Cossacks called the Krug on May 18, 1918. This occurred after the liquidation of the Don Soviet Republic from the territory of the Don Host Oblast on May 10.
The Don Republic claimed the territory of the Don region and the city of Novocherkassk as its capital. Administratively, the Don Republic was divided into 10 okrugs, which are now located in modern-day Rostov and Volgograd Oblasts of Russia and Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts of neighboring Ukraine.
During the dissolution of the USSR, in October 1991, the Don Cossack Republic was proclaimed as a subject of the Russian Federation with the capital in Novocherkassk. In November 1991, it was declared a subject of the newly proclaimed Union of Cossack Republics in Southern Russia. However, none of these polities were recognized, and the territory claimed by them was integrated into the Russian Federation.
See also
- Don Army
- Don Host Oblast
- Kuban People's Republic, a government formed by the Kuban Cossacks in 1918.
- Post-Russian Empire states