DECREE ON THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSARIAT
OF THE SOUTHERN REGION**
APRIL 9, 1918
The Extraordinary Commissar of the Council of People's Commissars,
Comrade S. Ordzhonikidze, is instructed to organize under his
chairmanship a temporary Extraordinary Commissariat of the South*
ern Region, uniting the activities of Crimea, the Don
Region, the Terek Region, the Black Sea Governorate, the Black Sea
Fleet and the entire North Caucasus up to Baku.
The purpose of the commissariat: the unwavering implementation of the directives of the central
Soviet power on land and at sea, a concentrated struggle against the bourgeois counter-revolution, the consolidation of Soviet
power in the area of its activity, maintaining a direct
link between the regions and the Council of People's Commissars.