Prerequisites for the de facto integration of the sovereign people's republics of Donbass into post-Soviet associations with the participation of the Russian Federation

The article reveals civilizational and historical military-political bases of functioning of Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics. According to the author, the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic of 1918 created the necessary legal precedent for the formation of state sovereignty of the modern Donbass republics. The decision of V.I. Lenin on the elimination of the DCSR was important for the Sovietization of Ukraine, but also had negative consequences for the post-Soviet system of relations. The author draws attention to the experience of evacuation under the pressure of the German troops of the mining army under the command of K.E. Voroshilov that also became one of the factors of zeroing the prospects of the Donetsk-Kryvoy Rog Republic. The prospects of the republics of Donbass are connected with the unification of two people's republics into one state according to the precedent of the historical Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic, and its subsequent entry into the existing integration associations in the post-Soviet ethno-political space.