Vinnytsia Bolshevik Uprising was an armed uprising of the

Bolsheviks The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

Vinnytsia Vinnytsia ( ; uk, Вінниця, ; yi, װיניצע) is a city in west-central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast and the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. A ...

from November 10 (October 28) to November 12 (October 30) 1917 during the

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. The uprising preceded by a protest of revolutionary soldiers from quartered in

the 15 Reserve Infantry Regiment. On 5 November (23 October) they came out on demonstration of protest against the order of command of the Southwestern Front to dissolve the regiment. The same day on the initiative of Bolsheviks of the Vinnytsia Soviet workers and soldiers deputies there was created a revolutionary committee (revkom) headed by a leader of local Bolsheviks Nikolai Tarnogorodsky. The revkom announced all orders of local authorities invalid without agreed upon by it. The committee also agreed not to allow departing to the frontlines the 15th regiment and other revolutionary minded formations that were located in Vinnytsia as well as prohibited to issue arms from the military warehouses. Punitive formations that arrived to the city issued an ultimatum to the Vinnytsia Soviet: to deport the 15th regiment to frontlines, issue arms out of warehouses for the front and arrest all Bolsheviks. The soviet rejected those requests and offered for punishers to leave the city. Following the events in

Petrograd Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and

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on 10 November (28 October) there started the uprising. Against the punishers came out Red Guards workers and various military formations (~6,000 soldiers). On 12 November (30 October) after a fierce fighting and by concentrating great military force, the counter-revolutionary command of the Southwestern Front forced the rebels to retreat out of the city. However to their help from Zhmerynka arrived two regiments of the 2nd Guard Corps that drove the punishers out of

. On 17 November (4 November) in the city was established the Soviet regime. According to Soviet encyclopedias, the consolidation of Soviet regime in Vinnytsia prevented the

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that cunningly disarmed revolutionary formations and temporary occupied the city.

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Vinnytsia October Armed Uprising 1917
at the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia {{Russian Revolution 1917 Russian Revolution in Ukraine History of Vinnytsia 1917 in Ukraine Conflicts in 1917 Bolshevik uprisings Communism in Ukraine Military history of Ukraine November 1917 events