It was created after a mutiny by Andrey Galatsan, a socialist revolutionary, with the support of the local Gagauz population.

Thus, Andrey Galatsan, a student at the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute and a revolutionary socialist, created a clandestine organization in the village of Comrat, with a Gagauz ethnic majority.

Galatsan began to urge the Gagauz peasant population to join his fight for rights.

[2][3] A committee under Galatsan's rule was established, and its first decisions were to repeal taxes, cancel IOUs and perform a land reform.

[2][3][4] During the times of the Soviet Union, the Comrat Republic was presented as a socialist and proletarian movement but not as an ethnic one.