English: The Orsk Red Rifle Regiment was formed in Orsk on July 7, 1918, in the context of the outbreak of an armed confrontation between supporters of the Soviet regime and the Orenburg Cossacks. The regiment included: the Orskaya workers' squad, the Kuvandyk workers' squad, the 2nd Baymakskaya workers' squad, the Kuvandyk workers' detachment of railway workers, the Kuruil detachment, the Dergaish detachment, the Kutansinsiy detachment, as well as the 3rd battalion of the Orenburg regiment sent from Aktyubinsk.

On July 15, by order on the Orsk Front, the regiment received the official name “Orsk Consolidated Infantry Regiment.” The regiment took part in the battles during the siege of Orsk by Cossack detachments in July - September 1918. Early in the morning of September 28, the defenders of the city were forced to leave Orsk: with the convoy they retreated across the bridge on the Or River on the road to Aktyubinsk. On October 14, the Orsky regiment arrived in Aktobe and became part of the Aktobe group of forces.

It was then that a photograph was taken of the command staff of the regiment, on which they are sitting from left to right: 1st - battalion commander-2 Ivan M. Teplov (until October 30, 1918), 2nd - regiment commander Anatoly Ivanovich Morozov, 3rd - battalion commander-1 D. AND. Rudakov; standing from left to right: 3rd - company commander-1 A.D. Chebanov, 4th - company commander-2 K. Polyakov, 5th - company commander-3 P.S. Makeev, 6th - company commander-4 Andrey Petrovich Markovsky.

On March 30, 1919, the regiment returned to Orsk, replacing the 24th division of the Red Army, which took the city on February 26. However, already on April 7 he retreated to Orenburg. On April 22, 1919, the regiment was renamed the 277 Orsky Rifle Regiment of the 93rd Brigade. Under this name, he took part in the Battle of Salmysh, preventing, with the support of the 211 Kursk Regiment of the 24 Iron Division, the capture of Orenburg by the corps of General Bakich. On July 5, 1919, the 277th regiment became known as the 435th Orsk Rifle Regiment. Under this name, he participated in the counter-offensives of the Southern Group of the Eastern Front of the Red Army in the summer - autumn of 1919 on the territory of the Orenburg province and Aktobe district of the Turgai region. In October - November 1920 he took part in the battles for Crimea. In 1930, the regiment was called the 9th Simferopol Rifle Regiment of the 3rd Crimean Division.

Anatoly Ivanovich Morozov (pictured in the center of the first row) - a participant in the Civil War, the first commander of the 1st Orsk Rifle Regiment. He graduated from high school, then from the Vilna Military School. Lieutenant of the Russian army. At the end of June - beginning of July 1918, he led a Red Guard detachment from Baymak to Orsk, which became part of the formed 1st Orsk Rifle Regiment. Morozov is the first commander of this regiment. During the Great Patriotic War he was in the active army as commander of the 1024th Infantry Regiment. Killed in battle.

Andrey Petrovich Markovsky (far right in the photo) in August 1918 is mentioned as the commander of the 4th company. On September 14, at a general meeting of the battalion command staff, he was elected assistant and deputy battalion commander. In February 1919, in the order for the regiment, he was designated as the commander of the 4th company.