A documentary novel that resurrects little-known pages of revolutionary events in the Urals in 1905-1907. The work centers on the activities of the legendary Ural militants, their heroic deeds and destinies. First of all, these are the Kadomtsev brothers, the hiding Potemkin sailor Ivan Petrov, the elusive leader of the squads of the factory Ural region Mikhail Guzakov, the master of various explosive devices Vladimir Gustomesov, the leader of the Zlatoust militants Ivan Artamonov and other party fighters, the sons of the proletarian Urals. The reader reads about many of them finds out for the first time.