From November to December 1905, the council published a newspaper called Izvestia Federativnogo Soveta, which ran until the revolution in the city was suppressed.

[4] Following the February Revolution on March 2, 1917, the Kharkov Council of Workers' Deputies was created as an elected local government body.

[3] The Kharkov Council of Workers' Deputies remained throughout the Soviet era, where the first chairman was Mikhail Lazko (in 1917), and the last was Yevhen Kushnaryov (in 1990–1991).

In 1917, the council existed for some time under conditions of dual power and tri-power: 1) the Russian Provisional Government (late February - early November); 2) the Provincial Public Committee headed by the Commissar and the Central Rada (April 6 - November 10); 3) the Provincial Ukrainian Rada headed by Mr. Rubas.

On April 8, 1918, about the time of the 1918 Ukrainian coup d'état, the authorities of the German Empire abolished the councils that were set up in the city.

On the territory of the city of Kharkiv, the following areas may be conducted in Russian: acts of the city council and its executive bodies, officials; names of state authorities and local governments, associations of citizens, enterprises, institutions and organizations are written, inscriptions on their seals and stamps, official forms and plates; documentation of local referendums is drawn up; Ukrainian and Russian were used in the work and office work of local governments and in correspondence with higher-level state authorities; texts of official announcements and messages were written in the state language and distributed in Russian.