1918 2 (15) January: A Sovnarkom decree is issued on universal labor obligation. 3 (16) January: VTsIK adopts the “Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited Peoples” and the decree “On the Formation of Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army.” 5–6 (18–19) January: The Constituent Assembly meets in Petrograd; Bolshevik and Left-SR delegates walk out when it refuses to accept the “Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited Peoples.” Red forces, commanded by Colonel M. A. Murav′ev, capture Poltava in Ukraine. 6 (19) January: Delegates to the Constituent Assembly are denied entry to the Tauride Palace by Bolshevik guards. 7 (20) January: VTsIK endorses a Sovnarkom decree dissolving the Constituent Assembly. General Kornilov is named as commander in chief of the Volunteer Army. 8 (21) January: Outbreak of Finnish Civil War. 9 (22) January: In its Fourth Universal, the Ukrainian Central Rada proclaims the independence of the Ukrainian National Republic. The Donets-Kryvoi Rog Soviet Republic is proclaimed at Khar′kov. 10 (23) January: Cossack and Russian anti-Bolsheviks create the United Government of the Don to oppose Soviet rule in the Don oblast′ and oversee the activities of the Volunteer Army. On the same day, a congress of Cossack frontoviki in the northern Don region forms a Military-Revolutionary Committee in opposition to the United Government. 11 (24) January: Red Guards capture Yalta and Feodosiia in Crimea. 12 (25) January: Red Guards and units of the Russian Army battle against the rising in Belorussia of the 1st Polish Legion under General Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki. 13 (26) January: Romanian troops capture Kishinev, driving out Rumcherod. Sovnarkom severs relations with Romania. 14 (27) January: Rumcherod declares itself the supreme authority in Bessarabia. 15 (28) January: The Sovnarkom decree “On the Organization of a Worker-Peasant Red Army” on a volunteer basis is issued. Allied leaders announce that the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia has become an integral part of the French army. The Latvian National Assembly (Tautas Padome