March 15, 1920, city of Kharkov.

A Donetsk Province is hereby formed from parts of Kharkov and Yekaterinoslav Provinces and the Don Cossack Territory. (Map: 10 versts to the inch.) The Donetsk Province shall include:

From Kharkov Province:

Of the Izyum district, the following communes: Slavyanskaya, Belyanskaya, Nikolayevskaya, Zakotyanskaya. Of the Kupyansk district, the communes: Kremenskaya and Ternovskaya. Starobelsk district -- in its entirety.

From Yekaterinoslav Province:

In their entirety, the districts of: Bakhmut, Lugansk, and Mariupol.

From the Don Cossack Territory:

Of the Donetsk district: the stanitsas of Gundorovskaya, Kamenskaya, Kalitinskaya, Ust-Belokalitvinskaya, and the commune of Karpovo-Obrivskaya. Of the Cherkassk district: the stanitsas of Vladimirskaya, Aleksandrovskaya, and further westward a conditional line: the stations of Kazachyi Lageri, Malo-Nesvetayskaya, Nizhne-Krepinskaya, and thence to the border with Taganrog district. Taganrog district -- in its entirety.

Chairman of the Ukrainian Council of the Labour Army,

I. Stalin.

Source: Marxism and Modernity. 2003. No. 1-2, pp. 17-18.