On October 17, 1917 the 2nd rank Captain Ye.Akimov was appointed the representative of the Central Council of Ukraine at the command of the Black Sea Fleet. In November 1917 in Sevastopol was established the Sahaidachny Sea Battalion (kurin) which on November 24, 1917 was sent to Kiev to extinguish Bolshevik uprisings and participated in the Kiev Arsenal January Uprising.