During the Russian Civil War, Crimea was de facto under German occupation (May–November 1918) and de jure administered by the Crimean Regional Government. In November 1918, allied French troops entered Sevastopol. From November 1918 to April 1919, under Allied patronage, the Second Crimean Government existed. In May 1919, after Crimea was liberated by Bolshevik forces, the Crimean Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed.
In 1918, the Crimean Regional Government issued a stamp with an overprint of a new denomination on stamps of the Russian Empire: "35 kopecks".