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Yakut revolt (1918)

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Yakut revolt
Part of the Russian Civil War
DateFebruary 1918 – 1 July 1918
Location
Yakutia
Result Soviet victory, end of Yakutia
Territorial
changes
Yakuita retaken by Soviets
Belligerents

 Russian SFSR

German Empire Yakutia

In February 1918 the acting government of Yakutia proclaimed the independence of Yakutia in response to the Bolshevik seizure of power. This independent government was overthrown on July 1st [1] by the intervention of Soviet troops from Irkutsk.[2]

References

  1. ^ http://www.cosmicelk.net/1917on.htm
  2. ^ James Forsyth (1994). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990. Cambridge University Press. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-0-521-47771-0.