Tchernetzov's Partisans Honored by the Don Cossacks

The days of memory of the legendary Don hero-partisan, Colonel Chernetsov and the young soldiers of his detachment were held in the Rostov region. Days of memory of the legendary Don Colonel Chernetsov and the young soldiers of his detachment were held on the Don. The Chernetsovites fought successfully, but at the end of January 1918, during one of the battles, they suffered serious losses, there were no reinforcements, at the same time several guns went out of order. As a result, 30 partisans were taken prisoner by the Cossacks, opponents of the military foreman Nikolai Golubov. Vasily Chernetsov was killed by a Cossack, a supporter of the establishment of a new government on the Don, Fyodor Podtyolkov. This fraternal battle is considered the beginning of the Civil War on the Don.

In memory of the events of those years, Days of Remembrance are held in the Rostov region, and in the places of the battles of the detachment - a historical reconstruction. Traditionally, this year students of the Shakhty Cossack Cadet Corps of General Baklanov took part in the events. So, in February, a creative evening "Lines Born by the Civil War" took place, during which Cossack cadets performed songs. Also, young people marched through the native village of Chernetsov - Kalitvenskaya, along the last path of his detachment to the place of the legendary battle. The cadets paid military honors on February 9th near the memorial cross at the site of the death of Chernetsovites, bowed to the ashes of Ataman Alexei Kaledin and young soldiers who were buried in the old Novocherkassk cemetery.


Vasily Mihailovich Tchernetzov (March 3, 1890 – January 23, 1918) was a Don Cossack Russian Imperial Army officer who served as a colonel in the Don Army. Chernetsov wass a Cossack of the village of Kalitvenskaya and a hero of the First World War. He led Tchernetzov's Partisans, an independent irregular Don Cossacks military company commissioned after the Act of Ataman by Alexey Kaledin on November 7, 1917. This 600-man regiment-size unit was formed of Don Cossack officers and students His detachment is known, which operated on the territory of the Don region at the beginning of the Civil War. It included cadets, or gymnasium students. The fighters held back the offensive on the Don of the troops that supported the Soviet regime. Colonel Tchernetzov's death at the hands of the Communists was explored in Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don.After the death of Vasily Tchernetzov, surviving members joined the Volunteer Army's Ice March in the end of February 1918.