Kharkiv under German occupation in 1918

On March 3, 1918, the Brest Peace Treaty was signed between the Bolsheviks and the Germans, according to which the territory, together with Kharkov, was in the zone of German occupation.

At the beginning of April 1918, German detachments approached Kharkov. On April 7, the Germans entered the city from Yekaterinoslavskaya Street. Together with the Germans, the Zaporozhye Corps under the command of UNR Colonel P. Bolbochan entered Kharkov, who, with the consent of General Zurab Natiev, appointed the commander of the 4th Zaporozhye regiment named after B. as a temporary Kharkov provincial military commandant (with the duties of a provincial commissar). Khmelnitsky Colonel A. Shapoval.

1. The Annunciation Church. 1918.

2. Railway station. 1918.

3. The German Commandant's Office. 1918.

4. City Theater. 1918.

5. Ekaterinoslavskaya street. 1918.

6. Indoor market. 1918.

7. Moscow Merchant Bank. 1918.

8. St. Nicholas Church and the hotel "Metropol". 1918.

9. Pavlovskaya Square. In the background, the Assumption Cathedral. 1918.

10. University hill. 1918.

11. Management of the Southern Railway. 1919.