Kholodny Yar Republic
Kholodny Yar Republic Холодноярська Республіка (Ukrainian) | |||||||||||
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| July 7, 1919–1922 | |||||||||||
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| Motto: Воля України, або смерть! (Freedom of Ukraine or Death!) | |||||||||||
Kholodny Yar forest was the center of the republic | |||||||||||
| Capital | Melnyky, Cherkasy Raion | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Ukrainian | ||||||||||
| Government | Republic | ||||||||||
| Chief Otaman | |||||||||||
• ⠀1919 | Vasyl Chuchupak | ||||||||||
• | Ivan Derkach (uk) | ||||||||||
• | Kostiantyn Pestushko | ||||||||||
• | Herasym Nesterenko (uk) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Foundation | July 7, 1919 | ||||||||||
• Liquidation | 1922 | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• Total | 756.6 km2 (292.1 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Currency | paut | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Ukraine | ||||||||||
Kholodny Yar Republic (1919–1922; Ukrainian: Холодноярська Республіка, romanized: Kholodnoiarska Respublika, lit. 'Cold Ravine Republic') was a self-proclaimed state formation and partisan movement, which ran on part of the lands of the former Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR), in the Chyhyryn district of the Kyiv province (modern Cherkasy Oblast), in the area of the Kholodny Yar forest tract. The village of Melnyky was its capital. It had a 15,000-strong army composed of peasants and soldiers from the UNR army, which had been defeated by the White Army in Podolia earlier.