Nikifor Hryhoriv and Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, commander of the Ukrainian Front of the Red Army, before the outbreak of the revolt, spring 1919
Date
7 May – 27 July 1919 (1919-05-07 – 1919-07-27)
Location
Kherson, Ukraine
Result
Uprising defeated
Red Army recaptures rebel-held territory
Nykyfor Hryhoriv assassinated by the forces of Nestor Makhno
Belligerents
Hryhorivshchyna
Ukrainian SSR
Commanders and leaders
Nykyfor Hryhoriv X Yuriy Tyutyunnyk Artem Maksiuta [ru]
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko Kliment Voroshilov Pavel Dybenko Alexander Parkhomenko [ru] Anatoly Skachko [ru] Nikolai Khudiakov [ru]
Units involved
Peasant Division
Ukrainian Front
1st Ukrainian Army
2nd Ukrainian Army
3rd Ukrainian Army
Strength
15,000
30,000
v
t
e
Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
1917
1st Kharkiv
1918
Mughan
Shamkhor
Donbas-Don
1st Kiev
Ice March
Steppe March
Iași–Don
March Days
1st Crimea
Transcaucasia
Kuban
Goychay
Sochi
Tsaritsyn
Kurdamir
Livny
Baku
Dibrivka
Allied intervention
1919
Voronezh–Povorino
Katerynoslav March
Northern Caucasus
Ukraine
2nd Kiev
Khotyn Uprising
1st Donbas
Hryhoriv Uprising
Binagadi
Chapan rebellion
Vyoshenskaya Uprising
Alexandrovsky Fort
Bender Uprising
Odesa
2nd Kharkiv
Mamontov Raid
Southern Front counteroffensive
3rd Kiev
Perehonivka
Advance on Moscow
Nizhyn–Poltava
Orel–Kursk
Voronezh–Kastornoye
Khopyor–Don
Pavlohrad–Katerynoslav
3rd Kharkiv
4th Kiev
2nd Donbas
1920
Rostov–Novocherkassk
Odesa
North Caucasus
Novorossiysk
Azerbaijan
Yalama
Sarvan
Ochakov
Anzali
Lankaran
Ulagay's Landing
Obytichnyi Spit
Armenia
Northern Taurida
Dagestan uprising
Tambov Rebellion
Perekop–Chonhar
2nd Crimea
Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict
1921
Anapa
Georgia
The uprising of Nykyfor Hryhoriv was an armed protest against the Bolshevik rule in Ukraine in May 1919, which covered the area between Mykolaiv and Kherson, Katerynoslav, Cherkasy, Kremenchuk and Kryvyi Rih. Its leader was otaman Nykyfor Hryhoriv, who gathered around him guerrilla troops of peasants rebelling against food requisitions and repression led by the Cheka.
On 8 May 1919, Hryhoriv published a Universal, in which he called for "the Ukrainian people to take power into their own hands" and proclaimed a "Soviet Ukraine without communists". His call was also taken up by the garrisons of the Red Army in Cherkasy, Verkhnodniprovsk and Katerynoslav, as well as sailors from Mykolaiv, Kherson and Ochakiv. Numerous pogroms took place in the area conquered by Hryhoriv's supporters. The uprising was suppressed at the end of May 1919 by units of the Red Army under the command of Kliment Voroshilov, Alexander Parkhomenko [ru] and Pavel Dybenko; peasant units in the face of clashes with larger regular forces dispersed, surrendered or defected.
On 22 May, the Red Army seized the center of the rebellion - Oleksandriia, and on 26-31 May, it again seized Mykolaiv, Ochakiv and Kherson. Hryhoriv, who hid from the pursuit with the rest of his supporters and reached the area controlled by Nestor Makhno's Revolutionary Insurgent Army, announced his joining the Makhnovist movement. In fact, however, he maintained contacts with Anton Denikin's White movement and considered recognizing his sovereignty, for which he was shot by Makhno. His troops joined with the Makhnovist forces.
Hryhoriv's uprising disintegrated the Ukrainian Front of the Red Army and largely thwarted its command's plans to march to Bessarabia, join the region to the Soviet state, and then intervene in Hungary and extend the communist revolution to Romania.
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Hryhorivshchyna
Ukrainian SSR