counterattacked, they suffered losses and had to retreat to the Altayskaya station. On June 10, members of Barnaul Revolution Committee came to the Altayskaya. They organized a meeting with the local population and explained the necessity of keeping such an important railway station. The Red Guards with the help of the local population began to dig tranches near the bridge over the Chesnokovka River. The Whites, however, were able to instigate a revolt within Barnaul so that, on June 11, the Red Guards had to leave the trenches and return to the city to suppress it. Whites from the Novonikolaevsk captured Altayskaya without a fight on June 12. There they found a map of Barnaul and its surroundings. By this time, the army received word that a reinforcement of 200 men on a ship that sailed from Novonikolaevsk was underway under the command of colonel A.A.Budkevich. The Battle at Barnaul Reds fortified the bridge over the Ob River, which connected Barnaul and the railway station. To do this, they had to destroy a part of the bridge near the station and placed a barricade with machine gun on the other end. The Red Guards took their position on the right bank of the Ob river (where Barnaul is located) due to its elevation. Whites decided not to storm the bridge and began to use cannons instead. The army's commanders then decided to cross the river in another location. During the night of June, 13–14, a company of soldiers crossed the Ob river at 20 km north-west of Barnaul near the Gonba village. They then joined Budkevich's reinforcent as well as the detachment of Barnaul rebels, who retreated from the city to the Vlasikha village. On the evening of June 14, Barnaul was attacked from the all directions. The Reds did not have enough ammunition, hence they decided to leave the city and evacuated to Aleysk. Aftermath Whites captured about 200 Red Guards after the Battle of Barnaul and, on the next day, killed all Reds of Hungarian nationality. Those Reds, who retreated from Barnaul to Aleysk, united into one partisan detachment under the command of P.F. Sukhov. This detachment fought in White's rear area for two months before suffering a crushing defeat. By 1920, a Red Guard officer assessed the success of the White movement in Barnaul, highlighting fundamental mistakes in the policy formulated in Moscow. In a telegram protesting