 From May to June, Evert and his army fought the Austro-German forces at Opatov and Lublin.And in September, his forces successfully repelled the Austro-German breakthrough between the cities of Smorgon and Dvinsk, for this success, he was awarded the Order of St. George of the 3rd degree in early October.In early March 1916, he commanded an offensive at Lake Naroch in what is now Belarus, together with General Aleksey Kuropatkin.