with a total catch exceeding that of Iceland and featuring ample stocks of herring, salmon, and sturgeon. The Republic also boasted extensive forestry resources, including over of harvestable pine, fir, cedar, poplar, and birch. Chairmen of the Government (heads of state) Alexander Krasnoshchyokov 6 April 1920 – December 1921 Nikolay Matveyev December 1921 – 15 November 1922 Chairmen of the Council of Ministers (Prime Ministers) Alexander Krasnoshchyokov 6 April 1920 – November 1920 Boris Shumyatsky November 1920 – April 1921 Pyotr Nikiforov 8 May 1921 – December 1921 Nikolay Matveyev December 1921 – 14 November 1922 Pyotr Kobozev 14 November 1922 – 15 November 1922 Prominent people born in the Far Eastern Republic Yul Brynner, actor See also Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War American Expeditionary Force, Siberia Postage stamps and postal history of the Far Eastern Republic Outer Manchuria Green Ukraine Siberian Intervention Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Priamur electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917) Footnotes Further reading A Short Outline of the History of the Far Eastern Republic. Washington, DC: Special Delegation of the Far Eastern Republic to the United States of America, 1922. Alan Wood, Russia's Frozen Frontier: A History of Siberia and the Russian Far East 1581–1991. London: A&C Black, 2011. . Canfield F. Smith, Vladivostok Under Red and White Rule: Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Russian Far East, 1920–1922. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975. Jamie Bisher, White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian. London: Routledge, 2005. . John Albert White, The Siberian Intervention. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1950. Richard K. Debo, Survival and Consolidation: The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1918–1921. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press, 1992. . 1922 disestablishments in Asia Former countries in East Asia Post–Russian Empire states History of Primorsky Krai Early Soviet republics Former Slavic countries History of Manchuria Former unrecognized countries History of the Russian Far East States and territories established in 1920 States and territories disestablished in 1922 Japan–Soviet Union relations Former socialist republics 1920 establishments in Asia Former countries of the interwar period Far Eastern Republic