4 дек 1918 г. - entire expanse of the Ukraine from the government of
Kursk to the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, had already
been liberated from the Hetman's forces by peasant revolu-
tionary insurrectionary detachments. With the fall of the
Hetman these detachments partially dispersed throughout the
villages, and partially retired to the coastal regions of the Sea
of Azov, where there was already a threat of a new counter-
revolution, that of General Denikin.