The book offered to the attention of readers is a chronicle of the struggle of the working people of Alma-Ata in 1917-1920. under the leadership of the Bolshevik party. At that time, the city still bore its old name - Verny - and was the center of the vast Semirechensk region, uniting the territory of the current regions of the Kazakh SSR Alma-Ata and Taldy-Kurgan, as well as part of the Kyrgyz SSR. Therefore, the old name of the city, Verny, is preserved in the annals.