End of 1921. The war is over, but there are still many different detachments and groups of undead White Guards, or even just bandits, roaming the expanses of the Wild Field and the Volga region. In the Samara province, the Ataman Army of Vasily Serov, a former non-commissioned officer of the tsarist army, became such a “thorn in the side” for the security officers . Taking advantage of the confusion and small numbers of Red Army detachments, Serov’s gang instilled fear and terror in the inhabitants of the villages and small towns of the Volga steppe. In the end, after a particularly daring attack by the Serovites on the district town of Pugachev, the leadership of the Gubchek decided to lure the gang out of the steppe and destroy...