The Supreme Administration of the Northern Region (VUSO; Severnaya Oblast; russian: Верховное управление Северной области) was an anti-Bolshevik left-wing

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government part of the White movement during the

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History

On 2 August 1918, the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region was declared in a coup by White Russians, led by Captain Georgi Chaplin, on the eve of Allied occupation of Arkhangelsk. British diplomats had traveled to Arkhangelsk in preparation of the invasion, and

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Frederick Poole Major General Sir Frederick Cuthbert Poole, (3 August 1869 – 20 December 1936) was a British Army officer of the First World War and a Conservative parliamentary candidate. Career Poole attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was ...

had coordinated the coup with Chaplin.Kinvig, pp. 29 Allied warships sailed into the port from the

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. General Poole ran Archangelsk as Commander of British troops in Northern Russia, declaring martial law and banning the red flag, despite the decision of the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region to fly it. On 6 August 1918, the Murmansk Krai Soviet authorized Chairman Yuryev to agree on the inclusion of Murmansk Krai into the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region.''Administrative-Territorial Division of Murmansk Oblast'', pp. 25–27 On 6 September 1918, Chairman

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was ousted by the White Russian military in Arkhangelsk and incarcerated in a monastery on the nearby

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. (He was later freed that same month.) On 15 September 1918, the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region issued a resolution which accepted Murmansk Krai as a part of the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region. On 28 September 1918, the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region became the

Provisional Government of the Northern Region The Provisional Government of the Northern Region (Severnaya Oblast), also called Severnyy Krai, was a White movement, Anti-Bolshevik left-wing, and Allied provisional government and a krai of the Russian State. History On 28 September 1918, ...

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Chairman of the Supreme Administration of Northern Region (Severnaya Oblast)

Territorial control

During its height of control, the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region controlled the overwhelming majority of the

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(using the 1917 governorate borders of the

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), about half of the

Olonets Governorate The Olonets Governorate or Government of Olonets was a '' guberniya'' (governorate) of north-western Imperial Russia, extending from Lake Ladoga almost to the White Sea, bounded west by Finland, north and east by Arkhangelsk and Vologda, and sou ...

(using the 1917 governorate borders of the Russian Republic), and a tiny part of the

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(using the 1917 governorate borders of the Russian Republic).

References

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