Alternate names for the Far Eastern Republic?

'The Far Eastern Republic' just doesn't sound like a name that would ever really be used outside of half-formed plans and possibly administrative files. So what would some other names for the FER be? Things they might have been named from the start, things that it might have been renamed if they had been around longer and things that they might have been called if someone else had taken it over or formed it are all welcomed!
 
Well, any name is possible if you're creative enough. Amur Republic, Green Ukraine, Provisional Russian Government of Primorsky, etc etc etc.

That said, the Far Eastern Republic was never going to be anything more than a Soviet ASSR in anything but name. It's just a legal measure to keep the Japanese and Entente at arms length with a somewhat disposable buffer zone. A retention of a White government might allow it to last longer, but only so long as Japan or America has the will to keep it alive.
 
'Far Eastern' is a single word in Russian. Dalnevostochnaya with Wikipedia's translation, though the current name for the region is slightly different, though given Far Eastern Federal District is the current name of the greater region, I am guessing it sticks. I don't know. Wikipedia also says it was refered to as Chita Republic. I read about an area there being called Green Ukraine as well, but now that I think of it, I believe 'the Ukraine' refered to outskirts or borderlands, so it might have just been calling the area that. Now, looking at a map of the Republic, not showing the American and Japanese occupation zones (perhaps the Japanese would try annexing north Sakhalin if they got them as a puppet state, or they just keep occupying it without changing the flags) we can see they didn't exactly have many names for the area not related to geography. On based on being on the far side of a lake (and thus suggesting they were still looking at the area as if they were on the western side), one named after a river, and the other named for... Well, being next to water. I would love to see a timeline or map with an early POD that helped populate this area rich in mineral resources, lumber, fish, etc with people dispossessing from the Baltic, Ukranians, Poles, perhaps Armenians and Assyrians... Just a rich blend of people who can only agree that the Bolsheviks and the Emperors, be they of China, Japan, or Russia, should all go fuck themselves. They might also want a sprinkle of Central Asians and Siberians. I can see this having very interesting implications for American relations in the area, as well as Australians.
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Hope the map is showing properly. Also, they apparently may have claimed all the Russian Pacific Coast. Not sure.
 
Well, any name is possible if you're creative enough. Amur Republic, Green Ukraine, Provisional Russian Government of Primorsky, etc etc etc.

That said, the Far Eastern Republic was never going to be anything more than a Soviet ASSR in anything but name. It's just a legal measure to keep the Japanese and Entente at arms length with a somewhat disposable buffer zone. A retention of a White government might allow it to last longer, but only so long as Japan or America has the will to keep it alive.
Also may depend on whether the coup that stopped it from being a real republic came about. I doubt the country would survive a soviet invasion, but if there were actual elections and various conservative, liberal, socialist, etc parties came about they might manage to attract democrats and socalists after the Bolsheviks tried eliminating them all.
 

Asami

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I went with retaining the Far-Eastern Republic in my timeline, Hakkou Ichiu. I did initially go with Green Ukraine, but decided to generalize it due to the number of ethnic groups I was stuffing into it.
 
'The Far Eastern Republic' just doesn't sound like a name that would ever really be used outside of half-formed plans and possibly administrative files. So what would some other names for the FER be? Things they might have been named from the start, things that it might have been renamed if they had been around longer and things that they might have been called if someone else had taken it over or formed it are all welcomed!

I think the Kaiserreich mod's name sounds quite good: Transamur Republic. In my TL, I call it Republic of Primorye, with Primorye being an informal name of Primorsky Krai.
 
I read about an area there being called Green Ukraine as well, but now that I think of it, I believe 'the Ukraine' refered to outskirts or borderlands, so it might have just been calling the area that.

It was "Ukraine" since the region in question contained the Zeleny Klyn (Ukrainian: Зелений клин), Zelena Ukraina or Eastern Ukraina, an area of land settled by Ukrainians which is a part of the Russian Far East in the area of the Amur River and the Pacific Ocean.

Green here likely refers to the Slavic color code for the cardinal points based on the mythology of the pre-Christian god Svetovid, who had four faces: his northern face was white, the southern black, eastern green and the western red.
 
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