Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine

The Provisional Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine (Russian: Временное рабоче-крестьянское правительство Украины; Ukrainian: Тимчасовий робітничо-селянський уряд України) was a provisional Soviet government created on November 28, 1918, in Kursk on decision of the Communist Party of Ukraine and help of the Russian Workers-Peasants Red Army (RKKA), with its place of location was assigned the city of Sudzha (today in Kursk Oblast).Eager to resume open hostilities on August 5, 1918, the Milrevkom issued erroneous Order No.1 about general uprising in Ukraine which was not yet prepared.The strike force of the government became the two Ukrainian insurgent divisions that were created in August 1918 by the All-Ukrainian Central Military-Revolutionary Committee.On January 16, 1919, the government fired its chairman Yuri Pyatakov and elected Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Fyodor Sergeyev as his successor.The 3rd All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets (March 6–10, 1919) approved the new government as the Council of People's Commissars by adopting the Constitution of the UkrSSR.