Functioning of Ukrainian District Councils of the Ukrainian Far Eastern Republic as State Administrative Bodies During Its State Formation

The Ukrainian nation has constantly, as evidenced by the chronological framework of the history of Ukraine, fought for freedom and independence, for its own statehood and sovereignty for centuries. In the process of research, it was determined that the organizational structure of the Ukrainian national movement in the Far East during this period consisted of Ukrainian District Councils, which were territorial bodies of national self-government, which united and coordinated the activities of Ukrainian organizations in the territory of certain districts (Vladivostok, Iman, Khabarovsk, Mykilsk-Usuriysk, Kamchatka, Transbaikal, Manchuria, Svobodnenskaya and Blagoveshchenskaya Ukrainian District Councils). The first to emerge was the Manchurian Ukrainian District Council, which was established on July 16, 1917. In addition, it was one of the first Ukrainian District Councils to begin registering the Ukrainian population and issuing relevant identity documents, which was carried out in accordance with the decisions of the Third Ukrainian Far Eastern Congress. Almost all Ukrainian organizations that existed in the Far East were liquidated in November 1922 after the establishment of the soviet government, and their leaders and activists were arrested. At the same time, their property was confiscated, which is a consequence of the Chita Process – a set of repressive measures of the soviet communist government, the purpose of which was to suppress the Ukrainian national movement in the Far East, carried out from January 5 to 13, 1924 against Ukrainian activists and leading figures of the Ukrainian Far Eastern movement detained in 1922. Keywords: national state formation, constitutionalism, Ukrainian Far East, Ukrainian Far Eastern Republic, Zeleny Klin territory, functions, institutions, civil society, state and legal framework, regulatory and legal acts, legislative activity.