About the book: 1960 / Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev - a former worker at the Verkh-Isetsky plant in Yekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk), who voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army Guard, and then the Red Army - talks about the civil war in the Urals. He describes the campaigns of the Ural fighting squads against the counter-revolutionary detachments of Ataman Dutov, the heroic struggle of Soviet troops against the White Czechs and Kolchak in 1918-1919. Using the example of one of the best units of the 3rd Army of the Eastern Front - the Malyshev regiment - the memoirs clearly show how under under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party, in the fire of battle, the Armed Forces of the young Soviet Republic grew and became stronger. The memoirs contain many vivid combat episodes that reveal the courage of the Red Army soldiers who selflessly defended the world's first state of workers and peasants. The book tells about the remarkable Ural Bolshevik, the organizer of the Red Guard detachments, military commissar I.M. Malyshev, about the legendary hero of the civil war V.K. Blyukher, brigade commander N.D. Tomin, about many other commanders and soldiers.