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On February 23, 1918, VCheKa sent a radio telegram to all Soviets with a petition to immediately organize emergency commissions to combat counter-revolution, sabotage and speculation, if such commissions had not been yet organized.

February 1918 saw the creation of local Extraordinary Commissions.

One of the first founded was the Moscow Cheka.

Sections and commissariats to combat counterrevolution were established in other cities.

The Extraordinary Commissions arose, usually in the areas during the moments of the greatest aggravation of political situation.

On February 25, 1918, as the counterrevolutionary organization Union of Front-liners was making advances, the executive committee of the Saratov Soviet formed a counter-revolutionary section.

On March 7, 1918, because of the move from Petrograd to Moscow, the Petrograd Cheka was created.

On March 9, a section for combating counterrevolution was created under the Omsk Soviet.

Extraordinary commissions were also created in Penza, Perm, Novgorod, Cherepovets, Rostov, Taganrog.

On March 18, VCheKa adopted a resolution, The Work of VCheKa on the All-Russian Scale, foreseeing the formation everywhere of Extraordinary Commissions after the same model, and sent a letter that called for the widespread establishment of the Cheka in combating counterrevolution, speculation, and sabotage.

Establishment of provincial Extraordinary Commissions was largely completed by August 1918.

In the Soviet Republic, there were 38 gubernatorial Chekas ( Gubcheks ) by this time.