The theme of the campaign of the Ural partisans led by Blucher is the main content of Ivan Nedelin's novel "The Pass," which is a continuation of the book "Blucher's Raid." "Pass," according to the author himself, presents memoirs, notes. The materials, dates and characters of the notes are genuine, correspond to historical truth. At the same time, the story also contains artistically generalized images of individual heroes, a number of surnames and episodes have been changed. The author set himself, along with documentation, the goal of showing a "pass" of a different order - the ideological perception of the October Revolution by semi-proletarian layers of detachments. The growth paths of the protagonist - the narrator Nefedov, the student girl Olga Krinitsina, are characteristic, in the difficult way of anxieties and delusions that came to the revolution. The images of Blucher, Tomin, Kashirins, Fayzullin, the commander of machine gunners Salavatov, hostages - the rich from Sterlitamak - Stamberg and Socialist Revolutionary Popov are remembered.