Green Ukraine
Republic of Green Ukraine Зелений клин | |||||||||
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| 1917–1922 | |||||||||
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Modern-day proposal for a flag representation of Green Ukraine | |||||||||
Proposed territory of Green Ukraine | |||||||||
| Status | Unrecognized, Self-declared entity | ||||||||
| Head of government | |||||||||
• 1918—1922 | Yurii Hlushko | ||||||||
| Historical era | Russian Civil War | ||||||||
• Established | 24 June 1917 | ||||||||
• Independence | April 1918 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1922 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Russia | ||||||||
Green Ukraine, also known as Zelenyi Klyn or Zakytaishchyna, is a Ukrainian name for a would-be independent Ukrainian state in the southern Russian Far East area between the Amur River and the Pacific Ocean, an area roughly corresponding to Outer Manchuria.
After the establishment of the Bolshevik Far Eastern Republic on April 6, 1920, Far Eastern areas with a significant ethnic Ukrainian minority population discussed the possibility of establishing an entity called Green Ukraine. This movement quickly proved abortive.
Geographically, Green Ukraine borders the present-day North Korea, in the special city of Rason and the Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang and Jilin.