Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The "January Uprising" on the 29th 1918, saw Bolshevist troops enter the city and declare a Soviet Coup d'etat. The Kiev garrison joined with the Soviets and deposed the Rada. Odoevsky attempted to form a new government but was arrested. The Bolsheviks established Kharkov as the capital of the Soviets of the Ukraine. By March Kiev had been occupied by the Germans.
With the withdrawal of German troops, an independent Ukraine was declared in Kiev under Symon Petlyura. It was then briefly occupied by the White armies before the Soviets once more took control in 1920. In May 1920, during the Russo-Polish War Kiev was briefly captured by the Polish Army but they were driven out by the Red Army.
After the Ukrainian SSR was formed in 1922, Kharkiv was declared its capital. Kiev, being an important industrial center, continued to grow. In 1925 the first public buses run on Kiev streets, and ten years latter - the first trolleybuses. In 1927 the suburban areas of Darnytsia, Lanky, Chokolivka, and Nikolska slobidka were included into city. In 1932 Kiev became the administrative center of newly created Kiev Oblast.
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