Soviet Civil Administration

Soviet Civil Administration
Korean: 소비에트 민정청
Russian: Советская зона оккупации Кореи, romanized: *Sovetskaya zona okkupatsii Korei*
Communist government under a military occupation (1945–1946);
	Top: Flag of the Soviet Union; Middle 1: Flag of North Korea; Middle 2: Emblem of North Korea; Bottom: Location of the Soviet Civil Administration in the Korean Peninsula;
Formation	24 August 1945
Extinction	9 September 1948
Occupied territory	North Korea
Country	Soviet Union
Civilian government
First	Provisional People's Committee (1946–1947)
Second	People's Committee (1947–1948)
Last	Democratic People's Republic of Korea (July–September 1948)
People's Assembly (1947–1948); Supreme People's Assembly (1948);
Chair	Kim Il Sung
Deputy Chair	Choe Yong-gon (1947–1948); Kim Tu-bong (1948);
Meeting place	Pyongyang
Executive
Head Administrator (de facto)	Terentii Shtykov (1945–1948)
Head of the Civil Administration	Andrei Romanenko (1945–1947); Nikolai Lebedev (1947–1948);
Chairman of the People's Committee	Kim Il Sung (1946–1948)
Headquarters	Pyongyang

The Soviet Civil Administration (SCA) was the official ruling authority of the northern half of Korea from 24 August 1945 to 9 September 1948, governing concurrently with the Provisional People's Committee for North Korea from 1946.

Even though formally referred as civilian administration, it was originally a military organization that included civilians of different professions. The SCA was the administrative structure that the Soviet Union used to govern what would become the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) following the division of Korea. General Terentii Shtykov was the main proponent of setting up a centralized structure to coordinate Korean People's Committees.

After the banning of the People's Republic of Korea by the American occupational authorities in the south in late 1945, the Soviet authorities co-opted the PRK committees on 8 February 1946. This setup was officially recommended by General Ivan Chistyakov and headed by General Andrei Romanenko in 1945 and by General Nikolai Lebedev in 1946, to install Kim Il Sung as the leader of a pro-Soviet regime from Moscow, when he followed his rise to power that transitioned him from the Red Army officer to the absolute dictator of North Korea, who would rule until his death in 1994, he was posthumously declared the "Eternal President" on 5 September 1998.