Local sultans and Russian officials were unable to penetrate deep into the steppes to protect the inhabitants,[2] and military patrols, having reached the Emba River at most, returned without results.

[5]Taking into account the experience of events in the steppes of the Turgai and Ural regions, before the introduction of the Temporary Regulations in Mangyshlak, the Orenburg Governor-General strengthened the Uilskoye, Uralskoye and Embenskoye fortifications, and also erected a new one in the lower reaches of the Emba in the Mashe tract.

The duties of the district chiefs who were part of that committee were to maintain order in the summer camps of the Adaevites and to keep the military garrisons in combat readiness.

The first was more loyal to the Russian government, and upon arrival from Uralsk, he immediately began to introduce a new situation in the Upper Distance, which he controlled, convincing the Adaevites of the beneficial consequences of the innovation.

[10] Upon arrival at the Alexander fort of Nuker Mayaev with a note from Rukin, a team (20-foot Cossacks, a sergeant, a policeman, and a paramedic) with a gun and a second ammunition set for the detachment was immediately sent to help the latter.

All, with rare exceptions, the workers and Kazakhs who roamed near the fort, upon receiving the news, fled to the steppe on the first night and for the most part, joined the rebels[12] On March 27, Zelenin sent reports on a major uprising in Mangyshlak to Gurevsky town and Astrakhan on fishing boats.

At about 9 a.m., up to 6,000 rebels [13] suddenly attacked the village and began to kill or capture settlers who fled in panicThe Cossacks, who saw this from the walls of the fort, asked the commandant for permission to sortie.

It was permissible to launch no more than a hundred on a sortie, which, most likely, could be surrounded by thousands of enemy masses and cut off from the escape routes to the fort, which would remain without a significant part of its defenders.

Biy Isa Tlunbayev, denying his involvement in the uprising and assuring that Rukin and the Cossacks who were with him were in his captivity, through a parliamentarian offered Zelenin to expel all the Adayevites from the fort, after which he would release the prisoners.

At the same time, Tlunbayev asked that Zelenin himself come out to meet him, otherwise, he assured that "The entire Adaev clan rose up to defend its law" and its small garrison would not be able to resist him.

Zelenin, already knowing about the fate of Rukin's detachment, refused, suggesting at the same time to try to take the fortification by force[15] On April 6, the rebels launched a massive assault.

Finally, government troops broke through the encirclement, but the pursuit stopped only when a small reinforcement moved from the fort, depicting the sounds of an entire army, the rebels fell for it and retreated,[17] the detachment lost 9 killed and 14 wounded.

[18] On June 7, more government forces arrived, commanded by Vladimir Saranchev [ru] He was moving towards Lake Massha, where the veterans of the uprising who took part in the extermination of Rukin's detachment were located.

[21] In early July, the second expedition took place, unexpected raids on the settlements of the Adai forced them to flee half-naked to the islands, where they were locked up, a few days later most of them surrendered, returning the looted property.