Transcaspian Government

Transcaspian Provisional Government
Закаспийское временное правительство
1918–1920
Flag of Transcaspian Government
Flag
Map showing the Transcaspian Government
Map showing the Transcaspian Government
CapitalAshgabat
GovernmentProvisional government
President 
• 1918–1919
Fyodor Funtikov
History 
• Established
12 July 1918
• Disestablished
February 1920
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Russian SFSR
Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Today part ofTurkmenistan

The Transcaspian Government (1918 - July 1919) was a "Menshevik-Socialist Revolutionary"[1] coalition set up by the railway workers of the Trans-Caspian Railway in 1918. It was based at Ashgabat, Transcaspian Oblast.

  1. ^ C. H. Ellis, Letters: Baku Commissars, The Times, 10 October 1961.