Mikhail Korobeinikov headed the Yakut Revolt in September, 1921.

In 1922, Ayan was one of the centers of the Yakut Revolt against Lenin's government.

He was in charge of defeating a White general Anatoly Pepelyayev during the Yakut Revolt.

June 16 - The storming of Ayan in Siberia concludes the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War.

In the Russian Civil War, the territory of modern Ayano-Maysky District was the scene of the anti-Soviet Yakut Revolt.

Later that year the Yakut Revolt was suppressed and the last organized White force under Anatoly Pepelyayev was defeated at Ayan (a port village on the Sea of Okhotst) on June 17, 1923.

The last conflict of the Russian Civil War, known as the Yakut Revolt, occurred here when Cornet Mikhail Korobeinikov, a White Russian officer, led an uprising and a last stand against the Red Army.

On April 27, 1922 the former "Yakutskaya land" was proclaimed the Yakut ASSR, although in fact the eastern part of the territory, including the city of Yakutsk, was controlled by the White movement (see Yakut Revolt).