| Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic Советская Социалистическая Республика Тавриды Sovetskaja Socialističeskaya Respublika Tavridy |
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| Capital | Not specified | |||
| Language(s) | Russian, Crimean Tatar, Ukrainian, German | |||
| Government | Socialist republic | |||
| Chairman | ||||
| - 1918 | Anton Słucki | |||
| Legislature | Council of People's Commissars | |||
| Historical era | World War I | |||
| - Bolshevik invasion of Crimea and fall of the Crimean People's Republic | January 1918 | |||
| - Established | 19 March 1918 | |||
| - Crimean Offensive of 1918 by Ukrainian and German troops | April 1918 | |||
| - Abolished | 30 April 1918 | |||
| - Reestablishment of Soviet control | November 1920 | |||
The Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic (Russian: Советская Социалистическая Республика Тавриды - Sovetskaja Socialističeskaya Respublika Tavridy; Ukrainian: Радянська Соціалістична Республіка Тавриди - Radjans'ka Socialistyčna Respublika Tavrydy) was a short-lived Soviet Republic situated in Crimea and adjacent areas that were the former Taurida Governorate of the Russian Empire. The state existed from 19 March to 30 April 1918 and was a member of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Following the 1917 October Revolution, the ethnic Tatar government proclaimed the Crimean People's Republic on 13 December 1917. The republic did not manage to hold onto its independence for too long and was overrun by Bolshevik forces in January 1918 like many other newly-formed states after the fall of the Russian Empire. On its territory, the Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic was established by decrees of the Tauridan Central Executive Committee (CEC) in Simferopol on 19 and 21 March. Mainland areas of Taurida north of Crimea were also claimed by the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.
The Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic was quickly overrun by the forces of the Ukrainian People's Republic with a military assistance from the German Empire in the Crimean Offensive of 1918. At the end of April 1918, the majority of the CEC and the Council of People's Commissars, including council leader Anton Słucki, as well as local Bolshevik chief Jan Tarwacki were arrested and shot by invading German troops in Alushta and, on 30 April, the state was abolished.
Following the invasion, a German-protected Crimean Regional Government was established under Maciej Sulkiewicz and, later, Solomon Krym. After the defeat of the White movement's Volunteer Army and the reassertion of Soviet control in late 1920, the lands of former state were divided between the peninsular Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic under the Russian SFSR and the mainland portions which accrued to the Ukrainian SSR. Today, the entire area is part of Ukraine.