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The Supreme Administration of the Northern Region (VUSO; Severnaya Oblast; russian: Верховное управление Северной области) was an anti-Bolshevik left-wing Allied government part of the White movement during the
Russian Civil War {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Russian Civil War , partof = the Russian Revolution and the aftermath of World War I , image = , caption = Clockwise from top left: {{flatlist, *Soldiers ...
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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
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, 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 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
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, 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 Murmansk Krai (russian: Му́рманский край) was an informal name used in the early Russian SFSR to refer to the territory roughly corresponding to modern Murmansk Oblast. At various times, the term referred to the territory which includ ...
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 Nikolai Tchaikovsky was ousted by the White Russian military in Arkhangelsk and incarcerated in a monastery on the nearby Solovetsky Islands. (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
Arkhangelsk Governorate Arkhangelsk Governorate (russian: link=no, Архангельская губерния, ''Arkhangelskaya guberniya'') was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 until 1929. ...
(using the 1917 governorate borders of the
Russian Republic The Russian Republic,. referred to as the Russian Democratic Federal Republic. in the 1918 Constitution, was a short-lived state which controlled, ''de jure'', the territory of the former Russian Empire after its proclamation by the Rus ...
), 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 sout ...
(using the 1917 governorate borders of the Russian Republic), and a tiny part of the
Vologda Governorate Vologda Governorate (russian: link=no, Вологодская губерния, ''Vologodskaya guberniya'', ''Government of Vologda'') was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed fr ...
(using the 1917 governorate borders of the Russian Republic).


References

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