 In the time of the Ukrainian Directorate government, with its dictator Symon Petlura, the city had periods of uncertain power.At times the anarchists of Nestor Makhno held the city, and at others Denikin's Volunteer Army.Military operations of the Red Army, which came in from the North, captured the city in 1919, and despite attempts by Russian General Wrangel in 1920, he was unable to reach Yekaterinoslav.