Kharkov under German occupation in 1918

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

In early April 1918, German troops came to Kharkov. On 7 April, the Germans entered the city on the street side of Ekaterinoslav. Together with the Germans entered Kharkov, Zaporozhye corps under the command of Colonel UNR P. Bolbochan, which with the consent of the General Zurab Natawa appointed temporary Kharkov provincial military commander (with the duties of the provincial Commissioner) commander of the 4th regiment Zaporozhye named after B. Khmelnitsky Colonel A. Shapoval.

During the Hetmanate in Kharkiv was the German garrison. The commander of the German troops in Kharkov was the General Mengelberg. Garrison stood for long. The revolution of November 1918 in Germany, the Germans withdrew from the First world war that led to the end of the German occupation of Ukraine. 10 days of November 1918, German troops began to leave Odessa.

Church of the Annunciation. 1918.

Station. 1918.

The German commandant. 1918.

City theater. 1918.

Ekaterinoslav street. 1918.

Indoor market. 1918.

The Moscow merchant Bank. 1918.

Nicholas Church and the hotel "Metropol". 1918.

Pavlovskaya area. In the background the Cathedral of the assumption. 1918.

University hill. 1918.

Management of JZ. 1919.