Many Kuban Cossacks served in this army, in particular under General Andriy Shkuro, who was from a Ukrainian Kuban Cossack family. Later in 1918 they took Maykop, Armavir and Stavropol, and extended their authority over the entire Kuban region.
It resulted in the capture of Katerinodar and Novorossiysk in August 1918 and the conquest of the western part of the Kuban by the White armies. During the Russian Civil War, the White Army achieved an important victory despite being numerically inferior in manpower and artillery. Unfortunately, this region was cleared of the Bolsheviks not by the Ukrainian army, but by Anton Denikin’s anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army, which fought for a “united and indivisible” Russia. However, it was not enough to save the Kuban from the Bolsheviks. Diplomatic ties were thereby announced between the Kuban People’s Republic and the Ukrainian People’s Republic.įor his part, Hetman Skoropadsky provided some assistance and support to the Cossacks, including weapons and ammunition. A delegation from the Kuban, headed by the chairman of its Legislative Council, Mykola Riabovil (1883–1919), visited Kyiv and was received by Hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropadsky. Photo: WikipediaĪ few days later, the members of the Council voted a resolution to join Ukraine as a federal structure.
Once again, a famous Ukrainian personality – Fedir Shcherbyna – was appropriated by the Kremlin, thus spreading and enhancing the myth of the “Russkiy mir” (Russian world).Ĭhairman of the Kuban Legislative Council, Mykola Riabovil. However, in 2008, with complete disregard for his last wishes to be buried in the Kuban and without his family’s permission, Shcherbyna’s ashes were re-buried in Krasnodar, RF with the support of Russian diplomats and the pro-Russian Orthodox Church of the Czech and Slovak Lands.
In 1924 he became full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.įedir Shcherbyna also wrote some epic poems, namely Chornomorets (1919) and Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1929).
He worked as professor at the Ukrainian Academy of Economics in Podebrady and the Ukrainian Free University. In 1920, Shcherbyna emigrated to Prague, where he took part in diverse activities of Ukrainian academic and scientific institutions. From 1917 to 1920, Shcherbyna, despite his advanced age, was an active participant of the Ukrainian movement in the Kuban. In 1904, he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was an eminent statistician, economist, sociologist and historian of the Kuban region, whose scholarly works were highly valued in tsarist Russia. Photo: WikipediaĪnother prominent figure from the Kuban was Fedir Shcherbyna (1849–1936). This combined army was called the Kuban Cossack Host ( Кубанское казачье войско ) formed in 1860, this administrative and military unit composed of Kuban Cossacks existed formally until 1918.įedir Shcherbina (1849–1936) – Ukrainian statistician, economist, sociologist, public figure and historian. The next stage came about in 1860, when the Black Sea Cossack Army was integrated into the western divisions of the Caucasus Line Cossack Host, created in 1832, which consisted mainly of Russian soldiers whose mission was to conquer and pacify the Northern Caucasus. Planned resettlement and incorporation of the Zaporizhian Cossacks into the Black Sea Army initiated the first stage of Russification. Mortality was high in order to survive, they were forced to tame the harsh environment of the Kuban region, and their settlements were constantly attacked by the Adyghe, Turks and other Caucasian peoples. The Ukrainian Cossacks of the Kuban lived under difficult conditions. The ranks of the Black Sea Cossacks were replenished mainly by Ukrainian Cossacks from Chernihiv and Poltava provinces, Sloboda Cossacks from Kharkiv province, as well as troops from various Ukrainian Cossack Hosts that had been previously abolished, such as the Ust-Dunai, Azov, Buz units and others.