Provisional Government of the Northern Region
북부 지역 임시정부
The anti-Bolshevik government set up with the Allied landing at Arkhangelsk in August 1918 that ruled northern Russia until February 1920. It began as the socialist-led "Supreme Administration of the Northern Region" under Nikolai Chaikovsky and, after an officers' coup in September, was reorganised in October as the "Provisional Government of the Northern Region". General Yevgeny Miller held real power from 1919, and it ended when the government left for Norway on 19 February 1920, after the Allies had withdrawn.
In depth
On 2 August 1918, right after the anti-Bolshevik coup in Arkhangelsk, Chaikovsky, Maslov, Dedusenko and others of the Union for the Regeneration of Russia proclaimed the Supreme Administration and the same day asked the landing Allies for help. The government restored local self-government and approved the eight-hour day and social insurance, but most of its members were Socialist Revolutionaries, and its attempt to adopt the red flag of the revolution as the official flag set it against the White officers. On the night of 6 September Captain Georgy Chaplin shipped the ministers off to the Solovetsky Monastery; they came back at the demand of the Allied ambassadors, but the Supreme Administration resigned on 27 September. On 9 October a Provisional Government under Chaikovsky, now including local liberals, was formed; it recognised the Ufa Directory in October 1918 and Kolchak's supreme authority on 30 April 1919. According to the English source it controlled most of Arkhangelsk Governorate and about half of Olonets Governorate. On 19 February 1920 the government evacuated from Arkhangelsk to Norway, and on 21 February Arkhangelsk and Murmansk were reintegrated into the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.