Provisional Priamurye Government

The Provisional Amur Government (Russian Приамурский земский край, Приамурское государственное образование or " чёрный буфер " ( Black buffer) ), was a Japanese- controlled state formations white garde - monarchical orientation to Vladivostok and the last, futile attempt of the Triple Entente, the Russian Civil War detriment of the Bolsheviks influence. In some sources, dominated by their area described as the territorial Republic.

Prehistory

In April 1918 British and Japanese troops landed at the request of the USA in Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. This intervention, which is known under the name Siberian intervention, was sent to support the White Army under Admiral Kolchak.

This became obsolete when the Red Army in the summer of 1921, Kolchak 's troops destroyed, penetrated up to Chita and founded the pro-Soviet Far Eastern Republic. However, the latter controlled not yet occupied by the Entente areas.

Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Amur

After the capture and execution of Kolchak by the Red Army and the evacuation of the Czechoslovak Legion, the Americans and their allies withdrew from Vladivostok in June 1920. The Japanese, however, remained back out of fear of further spread of communism to them allotted to guard borders. They supported the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Amur, which was carried out by the takeover White Guard military on May 27, 1921 in Vladivostok. Head of government was then Spiridon Dionisjewitsch Merkulov.

The influence of the Pri - Amur government initially comprised the territory of present-day Primorsky Krai and the south of the Khabarovsk region. During the year 1921 she was able to extend its control of the area on the west of the Amur Khabarovsk up.

Downfall of the Provisional Government of the Amur

The Japanese were pushed further and further, so that Khabarovsk was taken by the Communists in February 1922. On June 8, Merkulov was replaced by Mikhail Konstantinovich Diterichs, a former Admiral Kolchak. This called for a crusade against the Bolsheviks, and in July an assembly of notables together, Nikolai Nikolayevich Romanov the certain in the absence of the Tsar.

In September 1922, the Japanese finally moved from, on October 25, 1922 Diterichs troops were defeated by the Bolsheviks in December this Vladivostok took. Last fights are propaganda immortalized in the song " partisans of Amur ".