Донская армия
Much of the Upper Don region, in 1918, had defected to the Bolsheviks, but as a result of the Red Terror, in 1919, rose up in arms against them, in what was known as the "Veshenskaya Uprising." The main leaders were Pavel Nazarovich Kudinov and Kharlampii Yermakov. They joined forces with the Don Army centered in Novocherkassk, which was commanded by Ataman Afrikan Bogayevsky. These events form an important part of Mikhail Sholokhov's epic, "And Quiet Flows the Don". Indeed, for a long time, Kudinov and Yermakov, who appear in the novel, were considered as fictional by the general public.