 Professor Tomáš Masaryk, the main organizer of the Czechoslovak resistance against Austria-Hungary, was in telegraphic connection with colonel Nikolai Petrovich Mamontov so he could follow a situation from Saint Petersburg.The brigade was deployed near Zborov, a town in today's Ukraine, in a sector of secondary importance.The 4th division protected it from the north, the 6th division from the south.