The city of Stavropol Pal

From the south-east, Shkuro gangs again came to the city. Heroic defense of the city was weakened by another betrayal of General Rudnev and Socialist-Revolutionary Koppe, who tried in every way to undermine the defenders of the city. Parts of the Red Army and workers' detachments could not withstand the invasion of Denikin's troops, and on July 21, 1918, Stavropol fell.

The Denikin hordes were continuously replenished due to the prosperous part of the Don, Terek and Kuban Cossacks. All the counter-revolutionary forces that fled from the center of Russia poured into them. They grew up and at the expense of "volunteers", forcibly mobilized in the villages. Soon the strength of the White troops reached 85 thousand.

The savage terror raged in the White Stavropol captured by the White forces. Not only the Bolsheviks, but also those suspected of sympathy and even sympathy for them were arrested and killed. Head of the Stavropol garrison D.S. Ashihin, captured, Denikin's hangmen were hanged on the square now bearing his name.

The loss of the provincial center served as a great impetus to the replenishment of the Red Army at the expense of those who fled from the white terror. The troops continued their struggle. They were led by the party's sponge and the gubernia executive committee, who moved to the Nevinnomysskaya village. July 23 began the offensive of Soviet troops under the command of F. G. Shpak to Stavropol. In the fierce battles of July 24, the Red Army broke into the city, aggressively smashing the enemy's defenses. Foma Shpak in the car, not paying a hail of bullets, encouraged the advanced chains of the advancing fighters.

- You give Stavropol! He shouted in the excitement of the battle.

But at that moment an enemy bullet hit him ...

The death of a young, talented commander and organizer of the Red Army (his name is now the administrative district surrounding Stavropol, where he was fatally wounded, and a memorial plaque is installed at school No. 17 ) had a depressing effect on the fighters. Their chains trembled and stopped. The whites took advantage of the confusion and went over to the counteroffensive. Together with the Red Army soldiers, more than 2,000 workers who had become fighters left the city.

At the same time, Mikhail Grigorievich Morozov, Chairman of the Stavropol Committee of the RCP (B.), Died at the hands of a provocateur in the village of Nevinnomyssk. His name is one of the central streets of the city of Stavropol. In the Stavropol region, a guerrilla warrior unfolded. As throughout the province and the Caucasus, in the Stavropol uyezd in early August a partisan detachment of 2,5 thousand soldiers arose. Front without flaming around the city. On August 17 and 29, the guerrillas tried to knock White out of the provincial center, but lacked cohesion, ability to interact, and, unfortunately, the attacks on the city ended in failure.

And again the task arose: to unite the scattered partisan detachments into regular parts of the Red Army. On this issue, the September 8 gubernia party and the gubernia executive committee of the guerrilla commanders' congress, convened in the village of Blagodarnoe, convened on September 8 made a decision. To lead the formation, the headquarters of the Stavropol troops was established. In the organization of regular troops, a considerable role was played by the Communists of Tsaritsyn. From there Stavropol troops received ammunition, manufactured goods. In response, Tsaritsyn was sent carts of bread and wool, there were cattle cattle ....