The South Ural Red partisan (guerilla) detachments march from the area of Orenburg to the village of Tyuino-Ozerskaya (Ufa governorate) to join the Red Army regular units.

In the summer of 1918, as a result of the Czechoslovak Legion attack, several Red detachments fighting against the Aleksander Dutov’s Orenburg Cossack Host in the South Urals, were cut off from the main forces of the Red Army. They formed a Consolidated Ural Partisan Detachment, elected Nikolay Kashirin its commander, and Vasily Blyukher deputy commander (after Kashirin was wounded, Commander-in-Chief from August 2). The detachment began its advance across the workers’ districts of the Urals to Krasnoufimsk, other detachments joined it along the way.

In mid-August, the detachment was transformed into a 10.5 thousand-strong Ural Army under the command of Vasily Blyukher. In total, the army covered about 1,500 km and fought over 20 battles. On September 12, the Ural Army came out of the encirclement, joining the 3rd Army of the Red Army’s Eastern Front. On September 21, the Army arrived in Kungur, where its troops made up three brigades of the 4th Ural (then the 30th) rifle division. For this successful raid, Vasily Blyukher was Soviet Russia’s first to be awarded the Order of the Red Banner (September 30, 1918).