The Government of South Russia was a Russian White movement government established in Sevastopol

Sevastopol

Sevastopol is a city on rights of administrative division of Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea peninsula. It has a population of 342,451 . Sevastopol is the second largest port in Ukraine, after the Port of Odessa....

, Crimea

Crimea

Crimea , or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , is a sub-national unit, an autonomous republic, of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name...

 in April 1920.

It was the successor to General Anton Denikin's South Russian Government

South Russian Government

The South Russian Government was a Russian White movement government established by Armed Forces of South Russia commander Anton Denikin in Novorossiysk, Kuban, in March 1920 during the Russian Civil War....

 (Южнорусского Правительства Južnorusskogo Pravitel'stva) set up in February 1920.

General Pyotr Wrangel was the pravitel (правитель, "ruler") while the government itself was headed by a Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Alexander Krivoshein

Alexander Krivoshein

Alexander Vasilyevich Krivoshein was a Russian monarchist politician.- Life :Graduate in law of St. Petersburg University. Worked in the Ministry of Justice and later in the Ministry of the Interior . Assistant Head of the Department of Peasant Colonization , and Head...

, with Peter Berngardovich Struve

Peter Berngardovich Struve

Peter Berngardovich Struve – Пётр Бернгардович Струве was a Russian political economist, philosopher and editor. He started out as a Marxist, later became a liberal and after the Bolshevik revolution joined the White movement...

 serving as foreign minister. The government officially assumed the name Government of South Russia on 16 August 1920 and it controlled the area of the former Russian Empire

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

's Taurida Governorate

Taurida Governorate

The Taurida Governorate or Government of Taurida was a historical governorate of the Russian Empire. It included the Crimean peninsula and the mainland between the lower Dnieper River and the coasts of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov It was formed after the defunct Taurida Oblast in was abolished in...

, i.e., the Crimean Peninsula and adjacent areas of the mainland.

The government received assistance from the World War I Allies including France (which recognized it in August 1920) and the United States, as well as newly-independent Poland. However, foreign support gradually dried up and offensives of the former Armed Forces of Southern Russia and the Volunteer Army

Volunteer Army

The Volunteer Army was an anti-Bolshevik army in South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920....

, now called the Russian Army, outside of Taurida failed.

In early November, the Bolsheviks won decisive victories and entered Crimea proper. Wrangel initiated an evacuation of 146,000 people to Constantinople

Constantinople

Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...

with the last boats departing on 16 November. With this withdrawal, the final remnants of the White forces in Europe were defeated.