sentences:  During the reign of the Soviet Estonian Executive Committee, Ants Dauman, the newly-elected mayor of Narva, organized a plebiscite with an intention of removing the towns of Narva and Ivangorod from the Petrograd Governorate and adding them to the new autonomous governorate, receiving permission for the referendum on from the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.As 80% of the town's population supported the joining in the plebiscite, the Soviet Estonian Executive Committee recognized the new additions to the governorate on .Even though this had happened under the Bolshevik regime, the later Estonian government acknowledged the referendum, and the addition of Narva and Ivangorod to Estonia.