Black flags were used by guards in several modifications and variations
Leaders
Various militia leaders, including Maria Nikiforova, Lev Chernyi, Mikhail Uralov, Fedir Shchus and Nestor Makhno
Dates of operation
Summer 1917–Spring 1919 (became core units of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine by mid 1919)
Active regions
Russia, Russian SFSR and Ukraine
Ideology
Anarchism (primarily anarcho-communism)
Allies
Various anarchist organizations
Opponents
Russian SFSR Russian Provisional Government White Movement Entente Pro-independence movements in Russian Civil War
Battles and wars
October Revolution Russian Civil War
Preceded by Anarchist cells
Succeeded by RIAU
Black Guards (Russian: Чёрная гвардия, romanized: Chjornaya gvardiya) were armed groups of workers formed after the February Revolution and before the final Bolshevik suppression of other left-wing groups. They were the main strike force of the anarchists. They were created in the Summer of 1917 in Ukraine by Maria Nikiforova, and expanded in January 1918 to Moscow, under the control of anarchists at industrial enterprises by Factory and Plant Committees and by Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups cells.[1][2]
^Анархисты. Документы и материалы. 1883—1935 гг. Russian Political Encyclopedia (in Russian). Vol. 2. 1917—1935 гг. Moscow: ROSSPEN. 1999. pp. 216–218.
^Shubin, A.V. (2005). Анархия — мать порядка. Между красными и белыми (in Russian). Moscow: Eksmo. p. 93.
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Global Information
Russia, 
Russian SFSR and 
Ukraine
Various anarchist organizations