 {| style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 85%; width: 280px;" | colspan="2" style="background:#efefef; border-bottom:1px #aaa solid; text-align:center;"| green ukraine |- | colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"| {| style="background:#f9f9f9; border-collapse:collapse;" |} 80px| |- | colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"|flag of green ukraine. |- | colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"| {| style="background:#f9f9f9; border-collapse:collapse;" |} 270px| |- | colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"| |} zeleny klyn (, , literally: "the green gore/wedge"), the flag of the green ukraine appears to pun on he concept of a "green wedge" combined with traditional ukrainian colors. ukrainian parlance also referred to other ethnic enclaves as "wedges" - the yellow wedge, the grey wedge, etc). also known as the green ukraine and transcathay (), is a historical ukrainian name of the land in the russian far east area between the amur river and the pacific ocean. thumb|zeleny klyn on the map of russia after the russian revolution of 1917, the ukrainian republic of the far east or green ukraine was a projected country in the russian far east. after the bolshevik far eastern republic was established on april 6, 1920, far eastern areas with an ethnic ukrainian majority attempted to secede and establish an entity called green ukraine. the movement quickly proved abortive. == historical outline ==  * 24 june 1917 -first all-ukrainian far eastern congress at nikolsk-ussuriysky formed the far eastern kray rada (land council). * january 1918 - second all-ukrainian far eastern congress at khabarovsk proclaimed green ukraine as part of the ukrainian state (in spite of the lack of geographical connection). * april 1918 - the third all-ukrainian far eastern congress asked for the creation of an independent ukrainian state on the pacific ocean. * summer 1918 - the far eastern ukrainian troops (more than 5,000) enlisted by general boris khreschatitsky. * 11 april 1920 - order of hetman grigory semyonov on the right of far eastern ukrainians for national self-determination and autonomy in the limits of a united far eastern st
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