About the book: 1971 / Every spring lilacs bloom wildly here. Bending over the monument, the poplars whisper sadly. More than two hundred heroes died in the village of Mokrousovo, Kurgan region, during the days of the civil war. Among them are the commissar of the First Peasant Communist Regiment "Red Eagles" Alexander Alekseevich Yudin, the commander of the second brigade of the 29th division Nikolai Pavlovich Zakharov and others. This book is dedicated to the heroic fate of Alexander Yudin - a Black Sea sailor, a man of great soul. The author of the book is journalist M Shusharin, expresses deep gratitude to F.I. Golikov, former machine gunner of the Red Eagles regiment, now Marshal of the Soviet Union, former chief of staff of the regiment, now retired colonel L.A. Dudin; witnesses of those events: A. P. Ilinykh, I. M. Kulikov, A. D. Mogilnikov, I. G. Skurikhina, P. A. Balin, V. T. Zelenin, G. I. Troinin; employees of the Kurgan state and party archives, employees of the Odessa, Kyiv, Sverdlovsk, Perm, Tyumen state archives; relatives of A. A. Yudin - L. Zhivtsova and T. Somova - for the help they provided in creating the book.