UPR victory Ukrainian People's Republic Government forces: Mykhailo Kovenko Symon Petliura Yevhen Konovalets Vsevolod Petriv

[citation needed] The Kievan Bolsheviks decided not to waste any more time and were planning for a revolt to support the invading Soviet forces in the Soviet–Ukrainian War.

To prevent any riots on January 18, a few platoons of the Free Cossacks confiscated a great amount of weaponry from the factory and arrested several Communist activists.

The city's Bolsheviks Jan Hamarnyk, Andriy Ivanov, Isaac Kreisberg, and others, who had been planning to delay the uprising until the Red Army would come closer to Kiev, had no other choice but to follow it.

Along the way, they were joined by other Red Guards of Podil and Shulyavka, led by Arkadiy Dzedzievski (Left SR) with Makola Patlakh (Bolshevik) and Vasyl Bozhenko at Demiivka.

The most dangerous were activities in Podil, when the mutineers managed to take the Starokiev police precinct and the hotel Prague (today 36 Volodymyr Street), which were close to the building of the Tsentralna Rada.

On the morning of February 4, the forces of Symon Petliura occupied the factory after a bloody assault that cost the lives of several kish soldiers and workers of Arsenal.

To commemorate the event, the historic defensive wall of the Arsenal Factory bearing the traces of shelling was preserved by Soviet authorities on the city's Moscow Street (near the Arsenalna metro station).