"When I fall, <...> my blood will be drunk by my native land to grow grass with it for the horse of the one who will take my place." At the beginning of the XX century, an insurgent army was formed in the Cherkasy region, which quickly developed into the Kholodnoyarsk Republic. The peasants and descendants of the Cossacks United to prevent either the Bolsheviks or Denikin's from entering their territory. The armed resistance was so well organized that well-armed whole divisions formed from local residents came out against the invaders. The participant of these events was Yuri Gorlis-Gorsky, who described them in the novel "Kholodny Yar". The author describes armed clashes with the Reds and the underground work of Ukrainian rebels, the dungeons of the Cheka and subversive work against the Soviet government, as well as the life of soldiers and courage, patriotism and relationships, adventures, humor and struggle to the last.