Chita Republic
Chita Republic Читинская республика | |||||||||
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| 1905–1906 | |||||||||
Location of Transbaikal Oblast in Russia | |||||||||
| Capital | Chita | ||||||||
| Common languages | Russian | ||||||||
| Government | Soviet republic | ||||||||
| Chairman of the Council of Workers' Militias | |||||||||
• 1905–1906 | Anton Kostiushko-Voliuzhanich | ||||||||
| Legislature | Soviet of Soldiers' and Cossacks' Deputies | ||||||||
| Historical era | 1905 Russian Revolution | ||||||||
• Established | 22 November 1905 | ||||||||
• Proclaimed | 21 December 1905 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 22 January 1906 | ||||||||
| Currency | Ruble | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Russia | ||||||||
The Chita Republic (Russian: Читинская республика) was a short-lived soviet republic based in Chita from the end of 1905 to the beginning of 1906. Chita, a city in eastern Siberia, Russia, and a place of exile for early revolutionaries and combatants of the Russo-Japanese War, was a center for worker unrest in the early 1900s. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 armed revolutionaries under the leadership of the RSDLP headed by Viktor Kurnatovsky, Anton Kostiushko-Voliuzhanich, and Ivan Babushkin organized themselves into a "Soviet of Soldiers' and Cossacks' Deputies" and took control over the city, declaring the Chita Republic in December 1905.