One important aspect of the uprising was the bolshevization of the Ekaterinoslav Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies (November 1917), as well as the creation of a military revolutionary headquarters headed by
Vasiliy Averin. The Bolsheviks managed to form a company of 3,000
Red Guards, which conducted revolutionary agitation among the city garrison soldiers, and developed and approved uprising plans with the headquarters of the invading Russian
Red Forces. By that time Kharkiv was taken over on 25 December 1917 by Russian troops led by
Khovrin and
Sivers who arrived to
Kharkiv at night on 22 December. Soon after the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets in Kharkiv on 25 December, the Russian expeditionary group split with
Antonov and continued on to Don, while his chief of staff Muravyov took charge with military operations in Ukraine. On 1 January 1918 Yegorov's troops took
Pavlohrad and on January 5 they occupied
Synelnykove and
Novomoskovsk, stopping just outside the city limits of Ekaterinoslav. That same day, the Chairman of the General Secretary of the Ukrainian People's Republic
Volodymyr Vynnychenko dismissed
Symon Petliura from the position of Military Secretary. On 7 January 1918 the city's garrison brought from Oleksandrivsk (
Zaporizhia) an armored car. At night local Red Guards stole the car stationed at the Brayanka factory yard and the next day, the city administration requested the vehicle to be returned before 14:00. The request was completely ignored. On 8 January 1918 Ukrainian forces shelled the Bryansk Factory (the center of the uprising) and workers’ settlements. The city's Red Guards and garrison soldiers routed Ukrainian forces in the Kaidaky and Amur-Nyzhnodniprovsky city districts and captured the railway station, the telegraph station, and other government institutions. The insurgents were supported by the Moscow and Petrograd Red Guard forces of Pavel Yegorov, who arrived from
Synelnykove. On 11 January 1918 the city post office, which was the last resort of the anti-Bolsheviks forces, was taken by force. On the same day the
Soviet regime was established in the city. == Aftermath ==