Local government Military volunteers Symon PetlyuraKonstantin OberuchevVolodymyr VynnychenkoOleksandr Shulhyn Mykola Mikhnovsky (suspected)[a]poruchik RomanovskyYuriy Kapkan The Polubotok Club Affair was an important national civil affair and an armed revolt of the Kiev garrison troops that took place on July 17–18, 1917 in Kiev soon after the collapse of the Kerensky Offensive (July 16).

Soldiers of the Cossack regiment deeply lacked food supplies and medicines, experienced poor living conditions.

The uprising was later stifled due to the effective counter-actions of the Ukrainian officials and leaders of the Russian Kiev Military District.

The ideologist of the disorder is considered the contemporary nationalist leader of that time Mykola Mikhnovsky[4] although there is no direct and clear evidences of his involvement in those events.

Ukrainian politician and researcher of the Ukrainian liberation movement from Horlivka, Roman Koval, points out the fact that on 27 June 1917 took place a conference of the clandestine Kiev organization Fraternity of Independentists where it discussed pacifistic policies of the Central Council of Ukraine.