[2] The peasants in the rural districts involved in the Sheksna Uprising were dissatisfied with the excesses of local food detachments, and the deterioration of the economic situation in the villages.

[2] On December 1, 1918, peasant uprisings began in the Pochinok, Charomskoy, Ust-Uholka, First and Second Petrinevskoy, Yaganovskoy, Pachevskoy, Ivanovo, and Dargunskoy Bratkovsky volosts of the Vologda and Cherpovets Uyezds.

[3] Researchers identify three possible initial centers of the uprising: On that evening in the village Bratkovo, the peasants passed a resolution: 1) The meeting recognizes the rule of the Soviets, but not in its present form.

During their uprisings on December 1, the rebels defeated the executive committees at Bratkovsky, Pochinkovsky, Churovsky, and Ust-Uholka, and the military commissariat at Dargunovsky.

Mobilization lists were destroyed, stationary cases were looted, and party and Komsomol activists and employees of the executive committees were arrested.

The rebels also staged an ambush near the station Barbach, from which they could bombard incoming trains delivering Red Army units.

By the evening of December 1, a detachment was formed in Cherepovets consisting of the Red Army and the local railway guard battalion regiment (about 100 people).

An armored train under the name "Stepan Razin", summoned from Yaroslavl via Vologda, carried heavily armed soldiers and a cavalry unit commanded by the chief of the railway Gubchek Y. M. Brook.

Among the executed were V. Ochelenkov, T. Tsvetkov, I. Veschezerov, F. Belolikov, the brothers A. and K. Lohichevy, the guard Chistotkin, and the peasant Kudryavtsev.