Native Name: | Региональное правительство Северо-Запада России |
Conventional Long Name: | Regional Government of Northwest Russia |
Common Name: | Northwest Russia |
Era: | World War I Russian Civil War |
Event Start: | Established |
Date Start: | 10 November |
Year Start: | 1918 |
Event End: | Government dissolved by the Republic of Estonia. |
Date End: | 5 November |
Year End: | 1919 |
Event Pre: | Pskov Independent Volunteers Corps of the Northern Army was established |
Date Pre: | 10 October 1918 |
P1: | Russian Republic |
Flag P1: | Flag of Russia.svg |
S1: | Republic of Estonia |
Flag S1: | Flag of Estonia.svg |
S2: | Russian SFSR |
Flag S2: | Flag RSFSR 1918.svg |
Common Languages: | Russian |
The Regional Government of Northwest Russia was a short-lived White counter-revolutionary government formed on 10 November 1918, after the October Revolution.
On 10 October 1918, a military force called the Pskov Independent Volunteers Corps of the Northern Army was established in the Pskov-Ostrov-Rēzekne region, which at the time had been occupied by Germany since 24 February 1918. In November, the Regional Government of Northwest Russia was formed.
The force was later renamed the Northern Corps. After December 1918, following an agreement with Estonia, the army was put under Estonian control. In May 1919, the Northwestern Army was formed by general Nikolai Yudenich, one of the most successful Russian commanders of World War I. In October, under the command of Yudenich, he commanded the assault on Petrograd, capturing Tsarskoye Selo, but was defeated and driven back to Estonia. The government was dissolved and the army interned by the Estonians on 5 December 1919.[1]