One hundred years ago, on January 29, 1918, at the railway station near the village of Kruty, 130 km northeast of Kiev, a battle took place between a three thousandth detachment of Soviet troops under the command of Reinhold Berzin and a detachment of the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic, consisting of 250 officers and cadets. th Ukrainian military school, 118 Kiev students and high school students and 50 local volunteers.