This chronicle tells about the most important revolutionary events in the Donbass in February 1917 - January 1918, starting from the overthrow of the autocracy in Russia and ending with the III All-Russian Congress of Soviets, which legislated the conquests of the Great October Revolution. The book makes it possible to consistently, day after day, trace the course and growth of revolutionary events, the selfless struggle of local Bolshevik organizations, workers and the poorest peasants for the development of the bourgeois-democratic revolution into a socialist revolution, for the establishment and strengthening of the power of the Soviets in Donbass.