Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An fara kafa gundumar soja ta Orel tare da sauran yankuna na soja a lokacin yakin basasa na Rasha a ranar 31 ga Maris, 1918, tare da hedkwatar a Orel. Gundumar ta haɗa da Gwamnatin Voronezh, Gwamnatin Kursk, Gwamnatin Orel, da Gwamnatin Chernigov. A ranar 8 ga Yuni, 1919, an sanya shi a ƙarƙashin Southern Front. A ranar 29 ga Yuni, an kara Gwamnatin Tambov zuwa gundumar. An ba shi aikin kafa sabbin ƙungiyoyi da ƙungiyoyi don Red Army da shirya vsevobuch, tsarin horar da sojoji na duniya. A lokacin rani da kaka na 1919, sojojin gundumar sun shiga cikin fadace-fadace da kwamandan farar fata Konstantin Mamontov ya kai wa Soviet baya. An canza gundumar zuwa ikon Kudu maso Yammacin Yamma a ranar 10 ga Janairu, 1920, kuma ya koma Kudancin Kudancin wata daya daga baya. Tsakanin Janairu da Yuli 1921, sojojin gundumar sun shiga cikin murkushewar
Tambov Rebellion, tawaye ne na manoma masu adawa da Soviet. A lokacin yakin, gundumar ta kira mutane 300,000 kuma ta kafa rukuni huɗu na bindigogi, rukuni na sojan doki, da sauran ƙananan ƙungiyoyi, yayin horar da mutane 67,000 a ƙarƙashin vsevobuch. Bayan ƙarshen yaƙin, an rushe gundumar a ranar 9 ga Maris, 1922, kuma an ba da yankinta ga Yankin Sojan Moscow da Yankin Sojan Yamma.