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1st Cavalry Division |
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19.06.1918 |
formed
from volunteers of 2nd CD of the
old Army as MVO Cavalry Division [MVO = Moscow Military District] |
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10.09.1918 |
changed
name to Moscow Cavalry Division |
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28.02.1920 |
changed
name to 1st Cavalry Division |
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31.12.1920 |
became
35th CB of 12th CD |
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Unit History |
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06.1918
– 05.1919 |
Moscow
Military District |
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05.1919
– 08.1919 |
4th
Army |
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08.1919
– 12.1920 |
11th
Army |
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War History |
|
|
06.1919 |
fought
White Cossacks in Urals |
|
07.1919 |
fought
anti-Soviet bandits in Krasnyĭ
Kut region |
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07.1919
– 08.1919 |
guarded
left bank of the Volga, fought
at Eruslan |
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10.1919
– 11.1919 |
fought
for city of Zhitkur |
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01.1920
– 03.1920 |
fought
in Astrakhan region |
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04.1920 |
sent
to Azerbaijan, liquidated
Whiteguard gangs in Lenkoranskom district and Mugan Steppe |
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08.1920
– 12.1920 |
guarded
border with Iran |
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Division Commander |
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26.07.1918
– 10.05.1919 |
V.V.
Stepanov |
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10.05.1919
– 11.11.1919 |
S.P.
Zhaĭvoronkov |
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10.11.1919
– 23.11.1919 |
O.A.
Kort |
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23.11.1919
– 24.11.1919 |
acting
A.F. Metsuėn – Dannenshtern |
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24.11.1919
– 01.12.1919 |
A.K.
Gettikh |
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01.12.1919
– 28.12.1919 |
O.A.
Kort |
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28.12.1919
– 01.06.1920 |
A.K.
Gettikh |
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01.06.1920
– 29.06.1920 |
acting
A.F. Metsuėn-Dannenshtern |
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29.06.1920
– 04.07.1920 |
acting
Kropotov |
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04.07.1920
– 14.07.1920 |
acting
A.F. Metsuėn-Dannenshtern |
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17.07.1920
– 08.11.1920 |
I.P.
Orlov |
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08.11.1920
– 23.12.1920 |
V.F.
Vodop’ianov |
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23.12.1920
– 31.12.1920 |
A.K.
Gettikh |
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Military Commissar |
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26.07.1918
– 12.11.1919 |
G.V.
Zhukov |
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12.11.1919
– 06.12.1919 |
A.F.
Khoroshev |
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06.11.1919
– 12.11.1919 |
acting
Vorontsov |
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12.12.1919
– 26.05.1920 |
V.M.
Iaitskiĭ |
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26.05.1920
– 04.07.1920 |
Tiutiunnik
– Bakhmutskiĭ |
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04.07.1920
– 31.12.1920 |
V.Iu.
Rokhi |
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1st Cossack Cavalry Division |
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25.09.1919 |
formed
in Saransk |
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02.09.1920 |
disbanded,
troops used to form 5th
Kuban CD |
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Unit History |
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09.1919
– 12.1919 |
Reserve
Army |
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12.1919
– 02.1920 |
10th
Army |
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03.1920
– 04.1920 |
2nd
Horse Corps |
|
04.1920 |
10th
Army |
|
04.1920 |
1st
Horse Army |
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05.1920
– 09.1920 |
9th
Army |
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War History |
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fought
in Tsaritsyn region and North
Caucasus |
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08.1920 |
fought
against Ulagai’s landing
in the Kuban |
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Division Commander |
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25.09.1919
– 03.03.1920 |
G.D.
Gaĭ |
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03.03.1920
– 11.05.1920 |
P.E.
Dybenko |
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11.05.1920
– 16.05.1920 |
acting
B.I. Martvikh |
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16.05.1920
– 18.08.1920 |
M.G.
Meĭer |
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18.08.1920
– 02.09.1920 |
V.A.
Snarskiĭ |
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Military Commissar |
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29.09.1919
– 01.03.1920 |
G.
Golenko |
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01.03.1920
– 14.03.1920 |
acting
Dmitriev |
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14.03.1920
– 27.08.1920 |
S.G.
Lednev |
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27.08.1920
– 02.09.1920 |
V.N.
Khrutskiĭ |
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1st Special Cavalry Division |
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13.02.1919 |
formed
from portions of the 3rd Taman
Division |
|
03.04.1919 |
disbanded
[presumably destroyed by
Whites] |
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Division Commander |
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13.02.1919
– 20.03.1919 |
Levandovskiĭ
Mikhail Karlovich |
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20.03.1919
– 03.04.1919 |
acting
Baturin Georgiĭ Nikolaevich |
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Military Commissar |
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13.02.1919
– 13.03.1919 |
Tumaĭkov
Stefan Lavrent’evich |
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20.03.1919
– 03.04.1919 |
Kol’pinskiĭ
Vitaliĭ Petrovich |
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Division Staff
Commander |
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13.02.1919
– 20.03.1919 |
Baturin
Grigoriĭ Nikolaevich |
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20.03.1919
– 03.04.1919 |
Vodop’ianov
Vasiliĭ Fedorovich |
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1st Turkestan Cavalry Division |
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26.10.1919 |
formed
by order of RVS Turkestan Front |
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from
12.12.1919 |
formed
in Samara area |
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from
28.05.1920 |
moved
to Samarkand region |
|
04.08.1921 |
disbanded |
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Unit History |
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|
06.1920
– 09.1920 |
Samarkand-Bukhara
Forces Group |
|
09.1920
– 11.1920 |
1st
Army |
|
11.1920
– 12.1920 |
Bukhara
Forces Group of the 1st Army |
|
01.1921
– 05.1921 |
Gissar
Expedition |
|
05.1921-
08.1921 |
1st
Turkestan RD |
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War History |
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|
1920
– 1921 |
fought
Basmachi in Samarkand region,
and also with troops of the Bukharan emir in western and eastern Bukhara |
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Division Commander |
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12.12.1919
– 16.10.1920 |
E.N.
Shvetsov |
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16.10.1920
– 05.01.1921 |
acting
V. Dziakovich |
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05.01.1921
– 24.04.1921 |
V.M.
Ionov |
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24.04.1921
– 29.04.1921 |
acting
V. Dziakovich |
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29.04.1921
– 04.08.1921 |
acting
G. Zanemoĭskiĭ |
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Military Commissar |
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|
01.02.1920
– 13.08.1920 |
A.P.
Vedeniapin |
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13.08.1920
– 06.10.1920 |
acting
Avgustov |
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06.10.1920
– 03.03.1921 |
A.Ia
Reder |
|
03.05.1921
– 04.06.1921 |
acting
Spasskiĭ |
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30.05.1921
– 04.06.1921 |
Vinokurov |
|
04.06.1921
– 04.08.1921 |
I.
Sabitov |
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2nd Cossack Cavalry Division |
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17.05.1920 |
formed
as 2nd Cossack CD |
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23.06.1920 |
disbanded |
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Unit History |
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|
05.1920
– 06.1920 |
10th
Caucasian Army |
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Division Commander |
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17.05.1920
– 23.06.1920 |
Markozashvili
K.G. |
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Military Commissar |
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|
07.06.1920
– 23.06.1920 |
Zeĭlinkovich
Il’ia Markovich |
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2nd Don Composite Cossack Division |
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|
03.07.1918 |
formed
on the Tsaritsyn Front as the
Kotluban-Buzinovka Military District Division |
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28.07.1918 |
changed
name to 2nd Don Composite
Cossack Division |
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18.12.1918 |
Division
probably disbanded |
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Division Commander |
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03.07.1918
– 26.09.1918 |
Popov
Nikita |
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26.09.1918
– 16.10.1918 |
acting
Agatonovich Boris
Vasil’evich |
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16.10.1918
– 18.12.1918 |
acting
Zotov Stepan Antonovich |
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Military Commissar |
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|
05.11.1918
– 18.12.1918 |
Chibisov
Petr Pavlovich |
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2nd Stavropol’ Cavalry Division
“Blinov” |
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17.11.1919 |
formed
by order of RVS 9th Army from
the Horse Group
“Blinov” of the 9th Army under the name Cavalry Division of
the 9th
Army |
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27.02.1920 |
changed
name to 2nd Stavropol’
Cavalry Division “Blinov” |
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Unit History |
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|
11.1919
– 02.1920 |
9th
Army |
|
03.1920
– 04.1920 |
2nd
Horse Corps |
|
04.1920
– 05.1920 |
1st
Horse Army |
|
05.1920
– 07.1920 |
13th
Army |
|
07.1920
– 12.1920 |
2nd
Horse Army |
|
12.1920
– 01.1921 |
2nd
Horse Corps |
|
01.1921 |
Don
district Forces |
|
01.1921
– 03.1921 |
Ukrainian
and Crimean Forces |
|
03.1921
– 05.1921 |
Don
district Forces |
|
from
05.1921 |
North-Caucasian
Military District |
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War History |
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|
12.1919
– 01.1920 |
fought
in Don and North Caucasus
against Don Army
(General Konovalov Corps), liquidation of bands, pursuit of Denikinite
troops in Boguchara, Millerovo, Ust’-Medveditskaya regions |
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01.1920
– 02.1920 |
participated
in Manych river
operations, in stanitsa Platovskaya, Egorlykskaya and Mechetinskaya
regions |
|
03.1920 |
took
part in clearing stanitsas
Tikhoretskaya, Malorossiĭskaya and Kavkazskaya |
|
04.1920 |
fought
White Kuban Army on Kuban’
and Laba Rivers |
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05.1920
– 06.1920 |
fought
Makhno in Orekhov, Guliaĭ Pole
and Pokrovskoe
regions, opposed landing of General A.Ia. Slashcheva in
Melitopol’
region |
|
07.1920
– 08.1920 |
fought
General Barbovich’s horse
in Orekhov and Kakhovka regions |
|
10.1920 |
participated
in seizure of
Nikopol’ bridgehead |
|
11.1920 |
fought
at Perekop, liberated Dzhankoĭ
and Simferopol’ |
|
1921 |
liquidated
Makhno gangs and banditism
in Stavropol’ Province and Terek district |
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Division Commander |
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17.11.1919
– 22.11.1919 |
M.F.
Blinov |
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22.11.1919
– 04.02.1920 |
I.I.
Bronikovskiĭ |
|
04.02.1920
– 28.06.1920 |
I.A.
Rozhkov |
|
28.06.1920
– 17.07.1920 |
P.E.
Dybenko |
|
17.07.1920
– 30.10.1920 |
I.A.
Rozhkov |
|
30.10.1920
– 29.12.1921 |
V.Ia.
Kachalov |
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Military Commissar |
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17.11.1919
– 04.02.1920 |
I.A.
Rozhkov |
|
04.02.1920
– 10.02.1920 |
acting
A.P. Kuvakin |
|
10.02.1920
– 18.08.1920 |
S.S.
Druian |
|
up
to 29.12.1920 |
Ia.A.
Chibar’ |
|
29.12.1920
– 20.01.1921 |
acting
A. Almazov |
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2nd Turkestan Cavalry Division |
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|
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|
12.11.1920 |
formed
on the Southern Front on the
basis of the Kirgiz and Uzbek CB |
|
05.01.1921 |
the
volunteer force
“Kashirina” (940 men) were added |
|
20.04.1921 |
disbanded,
with brigades transferred to
7th and 9th CD |
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|
Unit History |
|
|
11.1920
– 01.1921 |
Ukraine
Reserve Army |
|
01.1921
– 03.1921 |
Khar’kov
Military District |
|
from
03.1921 |
3rd
Horse Corps |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
12.1920 |
fought
against Makhno in St.
Sinel’nikovo region |
|
01.1921
– 02.1921 |
fought
in Pavlograd and Taganrog regions |
|
03.1921
– 04.1921 |
fought
in Aleksandrovsk and St. Razdory
regions |
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Division Commander |
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|
10.11.1920
– 20.04.1921 |
S.S.
Ali-beĭ-Ėdigeĭ |
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Military Commissar |
|
|
14.11.1920
– 20.04.1921 |
A.I.
Astrakhantsev |
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3rd Turkestan Cavalry Division |
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|
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|
05.03.1919 |
formed
by order of the RVS Eastern Front |
|
31.10.1921 |
disbanded |
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|
Unit History |
|
|
03.1919
– 06.1919 |
Turkestan
Army |
|
07.1919
– 10.1920 |
1st
Army |
|
10.1920
– 10.1921 |
Fergana
Forces Group, Turkestan Front |
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|
|
War History |
|
|
from
03.919 |
participated
in the defence against
Kolchak’s armies |
|
04.1919
– 06.1919 |
participated
in counter-attack on
Eastern Front |
|
1919 |
fought
in Buguruslana, Belebeia and Ufy
regions in Aktiubinsk
operation: acted on line of withdrawal of G.A. Belov’s Southern
Army,
took Aktiubinsk and held it until arrival of the rifle units; pursued
the enemy non-stop and connected with the troops of Soviet Turkestan
and, as part of 1st Army fought against Whiteguards towards Krasnovods;
participated in operations against the Basmachi in Fergana district |
|
05.1921 |
fought
Whiteguards in Semirech’e
(one brigade) |
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Division Commander |
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21.03.1919
– 07.08.1919 |
S.A.
Sveshnikov |
|
08.08.1919
– 09.11.1920 |
L.
Timofeev |
|
09.11.1920
– 18.04.1921 |
S.B.
Volynskiĭ |
|
18.04.1919
– 15.05.1921 |
acting
A.A. Karpenko |
|
15.05.1921
– 31.10.1921 |
E.N.
Shvetsov |
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Military Commissar |
|
|
from
21.03.1919 |
Ia.
Levin |
|
after
11.04.1919 |
Sokolov |
|
11.04.1919
– 21.05.1919 |
P.
Sharapov |
|
21.05.1919
– 25.08.1919 |
I.
Kiselev |
|
25.08.1919
– 25.09.1919 |
F.I.
Labishevskiĭ |
|
25.09.1919
– 06.11.1919 |
A.
Izmaĭlov |
|
06.11.1919
– 10.11.1919 |
acting
Goncharenko |
|
10.11.1919
– 09.04.1920 |
V.S.
Naumov |
|
09.04.1920
– 01.10.1920 |
A.Ia.
Reder |
|
01.10.1920
– 25.04.1921 |
A.
Sbitnev |
|
25.04.1921
– 02.05.1921 |
Glukhov |
|
25.05.1921
– 25.08.1921 |
T.M.
Bondar’ |
|
25.08.1921
– 31.10.1921 |
A.I.
Astrakhantsev |
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|
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|
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4th Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
28.11.1918 |
formed
by order of 10th Army from
cavalry portions of 1st
Stal’noĭ RD and 1st Don Soviet CB under the name 1st Composite
Cavalry
Division |
|
30.01.1919 |
Changed
name to Separate Cavalry
Division |
|
14.03.1919 |
Changed
name to 4th Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
11.1918
– 06.1919 |
10th
Army |
|
06.1919
– 11.1919 |
S.M.
Budënny Horse Corps |
|
from
11.1919 |
1st
Horse Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
end
1918 – 05.1919 |
fought
White Cossacks and
Denikin’s troops near Tsaritsyn and Don district |
|
06.1919 |
operated
near Tsaritsyn |
|
07.1919 |
participated
in rout of General
Golubintsev’s forces (at Priamaya Balka ?) |
|
10.1919
– 11.1919 |
participated
in Voronezh-Kastornoye
operation against the cavarly of Generals Mamontov and Shkuro |
|
11.1919
– 12.1919 |
participated
in Khar’kov and
Donbass operations |
|
01.1920 |
during
the Rostov – Novocherkassk
operation it liberated Taganrog and Rostov-on-the-Don |
|
01.1920
– 03.1920 |
during
the North-Caucasian operation it
participated
in the crushing of General A.A. Pavlov’s Horse Group at the
Egorlykskaya battle |
|
03.1920 |
liberated
Maĭkop |
|
04.1920 |
liberated
Tuapse |
|
05.1920
– 07.1920 |
participated
in breakthrough of the
White Poles’
front in Zhitomir region, liberated Novograd-Volynsk and Rovno |
|
08.1920 |
fought
towards L’vov and in
Zamosc area |
|
10.1920
– 11.1920 |
operated
in Northern Tauridia, cleared
the Crimea of the remainder of Wrangel’s forces |
|
11.1920
– 12.1920 |
participated
in liquidation of
Makhnovshchina |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
28.11.1918
– 24.03.1919 |
B.M.
Dumenko |
|
24.03.1919
– 06.08.1919 |
S.M.
Budënny |
|
08.08.1919
– 25.04.1920 |
O.I.
Gorodovikov |
|
25.04.1920
– 01.05.1920 |
acting
I.D. Kosogov |
|
01.05.1920
– 18.06.1920 |
acting
D.D. Korotchaev |
|
18.06.1920
– 19.08.1920 |
acting
F.M. Letunov |
|
20.08.1920
– 23.08.1920 |
acting
I.V. Tiulenev |
|
23.08.1920
– 01.11.1920 |
S.K.
Timoshenko |
|
01.11.1920
– 23.11.1920 |
acting
G.S. Maslakov |
|
23.11.1920
– 24.10.1921 |
S.K.
Timoshenko |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
04.01.1919
– 15.05.1919 |
V.Novitskiĭ |
|
15.05.1919
– 29.05.1919 |
A.
Khazov |
|
11.06.1919
– 06.08.1919 |
N.A.
Musin |
|
07.09.1919
– 25.05.1920 |
A.M.
Detistov |
|
25.05.1920
– 09.06.1920 |
G.I.
Donskoĭ |
|
09.06.1920
– 22.09.1920 |
V.I.
Berlov |
|
22.09.1920
– 30.05.1921 |
S.F.
Graĭ |
|
|
|
|
|
5th Kuban Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
02.09.1920 |
formed
by order of RVS 9th Kuban Army
from 1st Cossack CD,
Separate CB of 33rd RD and 1st Taman CB under the name Kuban Cavalry
Division |
|
17.09.1920 |
Changed
name to 5th Kuban CD |
|
1921 |
awarded
honorable revolutionary Red
Banner for raids into enemy
rear during which it was broken by the White 2nd Don Cossack Division |
|
06.01.1921 |
disbanded |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
09.1920 |
9th
Army |
|
10.1920 |
Taganrog
Forces Group |
|
10.1920 |
Cavalry
Group of the 13th Army |
|
10.1920
– 10.1921 |
3rd
Horse Corps |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
09.1920 |
fought
in Ekaterinodar region against
Whiteguard army of General P.P. Fostikov |
|
10.1920 |
fought
in Northern Tauridia against
Wrangel’s armies, liberated Berdiansk, Melitopol’ and
Genichevsk |
|
11.1920 |
participated
in Perekop – Chongar
operation to clear Feodosia and Kerch |
|
11.1920
– 12.1920 |
fought
Makhno bandits in Ekaterinoslav
district |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
02.09.1920
– 08.11.1920 |
Ia.F.
Balakhonov |
|
08.11.1920
– 20.11.1920 |
P.P.
Chugunov |
|
20.11.1920
– 06.01.1921 |
M.A.
Turchaninov |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
06.09.1920
– 18.09.1920 |
V.N.
Khrutskiĭ |
|
18.09.1920
– 06.11.1920 |
V.L.
Vinnikov-Bessmertnyĭ |
|
06.11.1920
– 06.01.1921 |
G.G.
Iastrebov |
|
|
|
|
|
6th Chongar Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
09.01.1919 |
formed
by order of RVS 11th Army based
on the Stavropol’ CB under the name 1st Stavropol’ CB |
|
20.01.1919 |
Changed
name to 1st CD |
|
26.03.1919 |
Changed
name to 6th CD |
|
02.01.1921 |
Changed
name to 6th Chongar CD |
|
1928 |
awarded
honorable revolutionary Red
Banner |
|
1928 |
awarded
the Order of the Red Banner |
|
1930 |
awarded
the Order of the Red Banner |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
01.1919
– 03.1919 |
11th
Army Caspian-Caucasian Front |
|
03.1919
– 06.1919 |
10th
Army |
|
06.1919
– 11.1919 |
S.M.
Budënny Horse Corps |
|
11.1919
– 10.1923 |
1st
Horse Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
beginning
1919 |
operated
in northern Stavropol’
gubernia, then in
Tsaritsyn region against White Cossacks and Denikin’s Caucasian
Army |
|
autumn
1919 |
beginning
1920 participated in
Voronezh–Kastornoye,
Khar’kov, Donbass and Rostov–Novocherkass operations,
cleared
Rostov-on-the-Don, routed General A.A. Pavlov’s Horse Group in
Egorlykskaya battle and Denikin’s forces in the North Caucasus |
|
05.1920
– 08.1920 |
fought
White Poles on the South-Western
Front |
|
10.1920 |
fought
in Northern Tauridia and Crimea
against Wrangel’s troops |
|
end
1920 – 1921 |
participated
in liquidation of
gangsterism in Ukraine and North Caucasus |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
09.01.1919
– 26.03.1919 |
S.V.
Negovora |
|
26.03.1919
– 24.06.1919 |
I.R.
Apanasenko |
|
24.06.1919
– 14.07.1919 |
Semenov |
|
14.07.1919
– 15.07.1919 |
acting
B. Solov’ev |
|
15.07.1919
– 17.07.1919 |
I.R.
Apanasenko |
|
17.07.1919
– 24.08.1919 |
A.M.
Poliakov |
|
24.08.1919
– 03.10.1919 |
G.N.
Baturin |
|
03.10.1919
– 03.11.1919 |
I.R.
Apanasenko |
|
03.11.1919
– 05.08.1920 |
S.K.
Timoshenko |
|
05.08.1920
– 12.10.1920 |
I.R.
Apanasenko |
|
12.10.1920
– 27.10.1920 |
Ia.V.
Sheko |
|
27.10.1920
– 22.10.1921 |
O.I.
Gorodovikov |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
from
09.01.1919 |
K.A.
Pantas |
|
11.04.1919
– 04.06.1919 |
acting
G. Romanov |
|
09.07.1919
– 25.08.1919 |
acting
V.I. Berlov |
|
27.08.1919
– 01.9.1919 |
acting
Ia. Saltykov |
|
01.09.1919
– 03.11.1919 |
S.G.
Meskhi |
|
04.11.1919
– 23.11.1919 |
P.V.
Bakhturov |
|
23.11.1919
– 06.01.1920 |
P.V.
Gnidin |
|
06.01.1920
– 10.02.1920 |
acting
V.I. Berlov |
|
12.02.1920
– 05.08.1920 |
P.V.
Bakhturov |
|
05.08.1920
– 13.08.1920 |
acting
G. Romanov |
|
13.08.1920
– 04.09.1920 |
Vinokurov |
|
04.09.1920
– 13.09.1920 |
acting
I. Shiriaev |
|
13.09.1920
– 28.09.1920 |
Shepelev |
|
29.09.1920
– 27.10.1920 |
acting
G. Romanov |
|
27.10.1920
– 30.11.1920 |
acting
M. Bogdanov |
|
30.11.1920
– 05.12.1920 |
acting
N. Naletov |
|
05.12.1920
– 18.12.1920 |
acting
I. Shiriaev |
|
18.12.1920
– 22.04.1921 |
acting
Ivanov-Ivanovskiĭ |
|
|
|
|
|
7th Samara Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
03.04.1919 |
formed
by order of RVS 11th Separate
Army from portions of 1st Special CD |
|
1920 |
37th
and 38th CR are awarded honorable
revolutionary Red Banners (for the defense of Astrakhan |
|
03.1921 |
Changed
name to 7th Samara CD |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
04.1919
– 06.1919 |
11th
Separate Army |
|
06.1919 |
10th
Army |
|
07.1919
– 08.1919 |
Astrakhan
Forces Group, Eastern Front |
|
08.1919
– 04.1920 |
11th
Army |
|
04.1920
– 08.1920 |
2nd
Horse Corps |
|
09.1920 |
9th
Army |
|
09.1920
– 11.1920 |
13th
Army |
|
11.1920
– 06.1922 |
3rd
Horse Corps |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
05.1919
– 06.1919 |
fought
against Whiteguards on lower
Volga |
|
06.1919
– 11.1919 |
defended
Astrakhan’ |
|
11.1919
– 03.1920 |
fought
Denikin’s troops on Manych
and North
Caucasus, liberated Stavropol’, Armavir, stanitsas Batalpashin
and
Nevinnomys, fought Musavati in Derbent and Samur River regions |
|
04.1920 |
occupied
Shemakha, Kuba and Nukha
towns, guarded Azerbaijan border |
|
08.1920 |
sent
to Southern Front, participated in
rout of Ulagai’s landing |
|
09.1920
– 10.1920 |
fought
Wrangel’s troops in
Volnovakha, B. Tokmak, Pologi and Guliaĭ-Pole regions |
|
11.1920
|
participated
in Perekop-Chongar
operation and liberated Feodosia and Kerch |
|
12.1920
– 1921 |
participated
in liquidation of
Makhnovshchina in Sum,
Pologi and Guliaĭ-Pole regions, fought Petliurite and other gangs in
Zvenigorod and Uman districts |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
13.04.1919
– 28.04.1919 |
M.K.
Levandovskiĭ |
|
28.04.1919
– 11.05.1919 |
acting
Khozikov |
|
11.05.1919
– 17.07.1919 |
O.A.
Kort |
|
17.07.1919
– 20.09.1919 |
F.S.
Khatagov |
|
20.09.1919
– 15.03.1920 |
P.M.
Borevich |
|
15.03.1920
– 08.10.1920 |
A.M.
Khmel’kov |
|
08.10.1920
– 19.10.1920 |
V.V.
Korol’kov – Ianov |
|
19.10.1920
– 21.11.1920 |
acting
N.I. Sabel’nikov |
|
21.11.1920
– 10.01.1921 |
A.M.
Khmel’kov |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
19.04.1919
– 07.07.1919 |
V.P.
Kolpinskiĭ |
|
07.06.1919
– 04.07.1919 |
V.A.
Varganov |
|
04.07.1919
– 07.06.1920 |
I.F.
Sergunin |
|
08.06.1920
– 23.08.1920 |
V.M.
Iaitskiĭ |
|
24.08.1920
– 10.01.1921 |
I.F.
Sergunin |
|
|
|
|
|
8th Red Cossack Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
04.09.1919 |
formed
by order of 14th Army from 11th
and 14th CB and Red
Cossack Brigade under the name Cavalry Division of the 14th Army |
|
04.12.1919 |
changed
name to 8th Red Cossack Cavalry
Division |
|
1919 |
awarded
honorable revolutionary Red
Banner |
|
1930 |
awarded
the Order of the Red Banner |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
09.1919
– 11.1919 |
14th
Army |
|
11.1919
– 05.1920 |
13th
Army |
|
05.1920
– 07.1920 |
14th
Army |
|
08.1920 |
1st
Horse Army |
|
08.1920
– 10.1920 |
14th
Army |
|
10.1920
– 12.1920 |
1st
Horse Corps Red Cossack |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
12.1919 |
fought
Denikinites in Orlov –
Kursk operation, raided into
enemy rear, conducted combat with the Denikin forces in the Kharkov,
Zmiyev and Chuguyev regions |
|
01.1920
– 03.1920 |
fought
on approaches to Crimea in
Genichevsk region, Chongar peninsula and Sivash bridge |
|
04.1920
– 05.1920 |
fought
in St. Chaplinka region |
|
06.1920
– 07.1920 |
fought
against White Poles and
Petliurites in Chernyĭ Ostrov, Litin and Proskurov regions |
|
08.1920 |
fought
in Gorodok region |
|
09.1920 |
fought
in Rogatin region |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
17.09.1919
– 01.11.1919 |
acting
N.K. Shchelokov |
|
01.11.1919
– 14.03.1920 |
V.M.
Primakov |
|
14.03.1920
– 14.05.1920 |
acting
S.A. Turovskiĭ |
|
14.05.1920
– 06.12.1920 |
V.M.
Primakov |
|
06.12.1920
– 26.12.1920 |
P.P.
Grigor’ev |
|
26.12.1920
– 25.08.1921 |
M.A.
Demichev |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
from
17.09.1919 |
M.
Molchanov |
|
up
to 03.12.1919 |
M.I.
Belousov |
|
03.12.1919
– 09.06.1920 |
E.I.
Petrovskiĭ |
|
09.06.1920
– 06.12.1920 |
V.M.
Primakov |
|
06.12.1920
– 24.12.1920 |
A.Ė.
Gende-Rote |
|
24.12.1920
– 25.08.1921 |
E.I.
Petrovskiĭ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
9th Cavalry Division #1 |
|
|
|
|
16.06.1919 |
formed
by order of 12th Army from
Special CB of the 2nd Ukrainian Soviet Division of the 1st Ukrainian
Soviet Army |
|
28.10.1919 |
disbanded
due to heavy losses |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
06.1919 – 10.1919 |
12th
Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
08.1919 – 09.1919 |
fought
Petliurites in Vinnitsy, Kazatin
and Kremenchug regions, participated in defending Zhitomir and Kiev |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
18.06.1919 – 28.10.1919 |
D.K.
Murzin |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
18.06.1919 – 12.09.1919 |
G.G.
Dzhian |
|
12.09.1919 – 14.10.1919 |
G.M.
Grinev |
|
14.10.1919 – 28.10.1919 |
S.
Fediaev |
|
|
|
|
|
9th Cavalry Division #2 |
|
|
|
|
11.10.1919 |
Generated
by order of South-Eastern
Front under the name Don Soviet Cavalry Division |
|
18.03.1920 |
Changed
name to 9th Cavalry Division |
|
26.05.1920 |
disbanded,
parts transferred to 11th CD |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
10.1919 – 02.1920 |
South-Eastern
Front |
|
03.1920 – 04.1920 |
2nd
Horse Corps, 10th Army |
|
04.1920 – 05.1920 |
1st
Horse Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
12.1919 |
fought
in Don district |
|
02.1920 – 03.1920 |
fought
in North Caucasus and Kuban |
|
1920 |
participated
in the raid against the
White Poles in the Berdichev–Vinnitsa region |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
11.10.1919 – 26.05.1920 |
E.A.
Trifonov |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
17.10.1919 – 13.02.1920 |
A.A.
Dvorin |
|
|
|
|
|
9th Crimean “SNK USSR”
Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
04.07.1920 |
Generated
by order of army Trans-Volga
Military District in Samara region as the 9th CD |
|
01.1921 |
Changed
name to 9th Crimean Cavalry
Division |
|
07.1921 |
Changed
name to 9th Crimean “SNK
USSR”Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
08.1920 – 10.1920 |
13th
Army |
|
10.1920 – 11.1921 |
3rd
Horse Corps |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
09.1920 – 10.1920 |
fought
against Wrangel’s Horse
Groups in Orekhov,
Guliaĭ-Pole, Aleksandrovsk and Pologi areas and seized Melitopol’
region |
|
11.1920 |
participated
in Perekop-Chongar
operation |
|
1920 |
liberated
Feodosia and Kerch’,
protected Black Sea coast in Evpatoria region |
|
after 06.1921 |
fought
Makhno’s band in
Melitopol’, Orekhov, B. Tokmak, Guliaĭ Pole and Kakhovka regions |
|
08.1921 – 09.1921 |
fought
Petliura’s and
Tiutiunnik’s gangs in Bobrintsa region |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
04.07.1920 – 01.09.1920 |
G.O.
Stosuĭ |
|
01.09.1920 – 18.10.1920 |
V.S.
Nesterovich |
|
18.10.1920 – 08.11.1920 |
P.P.
Chugunov |
|
08.11.1920 – 15.02.1921 |
A.E.
Kartashov |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
05.09.1920 – 19.10.1920 |
I.F.
Trifonov |
|
19.10.1920 – 11.1920 |
L.M.
Gordon |
|
11.1920 – 15.02.1921 |
A.G.
Sokolov |
|
|
|
|
|
10th Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
29.10.1919 |
formed
by order of RVS 3rd Army of the
Eastern Front from the cavalry portions of the 3rd Army |
|
12.06.1920 |
disbanded |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
10.1919 – 01.1920 |
3rd
Army |
|
from 10.1920 |
1st
Revolutionary Work Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
1919 – 1920 |
did
not fight, participated in
participated in removal of
food distribution and in forest exploitation in areas of Ekaterinburg,
Shadrinsk, Chelyabinsk, Troitsk |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
31.10.1919 – 16.11.1919 |
acting
D.S. Fedorovskiĭ |
|
16.11.1919 – 23.10.1920 |
N.D.
Tomin |
|
25.10.1920 – 08.05.1920 |
acting
S.F. Matsuk |
|
13.05.1920 – 12.06.1920 |
acting
S.G. Fandeev |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
31.10.1919 – 19.12.1919 |
P.A.
Kozlovskiĭ |
|
19.12.1919 – 30.05.1920 |
I.I.
Basargin |
|
30.05.1920 – 05.06.1920 |
acting
M. Logachev |
|
05.06.1920 – 12.06.1920 |
Suvorov |
|
|
|
|
|
10th Kuban Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
30.08.1920 |
formed
by order of RVS 15th Army from
command and cavalry
portions of the 33rd RD under the name Kuban Cavalry Division |
|
12.1920 |
changed
name to 10th Kuban Cavalry
Division |
|
15.12.1920 |
reformed
into Kuban Separate Cavalry
Brigade |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
08.1920 – 09.1920 |
15th
Army |
|
09.1920 – 11.1920 |
3rd
Army |
|
11.1920 – 12.1920 |
16th
Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
1920 |
fought
in Lida region, Viliia River,
Naroch’ and Ushach’ Lakes, Polotsk, Rudnia, Drissa River |
|
11.1920 |
participated
in liquidation of
Bulak-Balakhovich gangs in Zhlobin – Mozyr’ regions |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
31.08.1920 – 10.10.1920 |
acting
G.I. Mironenko |
|
10.10.1920 – 15.12.1920 |
N.D.
Tomin |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
31.08.1920 – 24.09.1920 |
O.
Linnomiagi |
|
24.09.1920 – 24.10.1920 |
M.O.
Atrashkevich |
|
24.10.1920 – 15.12.1920 |
A.P.
Vedeniapin |
|
|
|
|
|
11th Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
27.09.1919 |
formed
by order Moscow RVSR |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
10.1919 – 11.1919 |
Southern
Front |
|
11.1919 |
1st
Horse Corps, Southern Front |
|
11.1919 – 05.1921 |
1st
Horse Army |
|
05.1921 – 07.1921 |
Western
Front |
|
1921 – 1923 |
Turkestan
Front |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
1919 – 1920 |
participated
in operations against
Denikin’s forces in
Voronezh–Kastornoye region (areas of Kastornoye, Stary Oskol,
Korochi,
Valuĭkov), Donbass, Rostov–Novocherkassk (areas of Matveev
Kurgan,
Rostov-on-the-Don), Don–Manych (areas of Ol’ginskaya,
Bataĭsk),
Tikhoretskaya (areas of Torgovoye, Srednego Egorlykskaya) and
Kuban-Novorossiĭsk (areas of Belorechenskoye, Maĭkop) |
|
from 05.1920 |
fought
against White Poles in Kiev,
Novograd-Volynsk, Roven and L’vov operations |
|
09.1920 |
moved
to Berdicheva region and thrown
into the Southern Front,
fought against Wrangel’s troops in Northern Tauridia (Agaĭman,
Otrada,
Genichensk) and Perekop-Chongar operation |
|
end 1920 – 1921 |
participated
in liquidating
Makhnovshchina and other
gangs in the Ukraine and in Belorussia (areas of Gomel, Slutsk, Mozyr,
Bobruĭsk, Minsk) |
|
1921 – 1923 |
fought
Basmachis in central Asia |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
24.09.1919 – 16.10.1919 |
V.P.
Glagolev |
|
17.10.1919 – 01.02.1920 |
V.I.
Matuzenko |
|
01.02.1920 – 10.04.1920 |
acting
K.I. Stepnoĭ |
|
10.04.1920 – 03.10.1920 |
F.M.
Morozov |
|
03.10.1920 – 03.05.1921 |
V.V.
Korobkov |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
20.09.1919 – 30.10.1919 |
A.N.
Sokolov |
|
04.10.1919 – 30.10.1919 |
N.P.
Vishnevetskiĭ |
|
30.10.1919 – 29.01.1920 |
K.I.
Ozolin |
|
03.02.1920 – 01.04.1920 |
V.S.
Kharitonov |
|
01.04.1920 – 16.06.1920 |
K.I.
Ozolin |
|
16.06.1920 – 08.08.1920 |
N.P.
Vishnevetskiĭ |
|
08.08.1920 – 31.10.1920 |
P.V.
Bakhturov |
|
31.10.1920 – 09.07.1921 |
M.L.
Belotskiĭ |
|
|
|
|
|
13th Siberian Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
21.09.1919 |
formed
by order of the 5th Army in
Kurgan from 3rd Separate CB under the name Cavalry Division of the 5th
Army |
|
20.11.1919 |
changed
name to 13th Cavalry Division |
|
13.12.1920 |
changed
name to 13th Siberian Cavalry
Division |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
09.1919 – 11.1919 |
5th
Army |
|
11.1919 – 01.1920 |
Kokchetav
Forces Group |
|
01.1920 – 06.1920 |
Semipalatinsk
Forces Group |
|
06.1920 – 07.1920 |
5th
Independent Army |
|
08.1920 – 06.1922 |
under
the control of the assistant to
the commander-in-chief in Siberia |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
10.1919 – 11.1919 |
participated
in Petropavlovsk operation |
|
12.1919 – 01.1920 |
fought
from Dutov forces in Kokchetav,
Akmolinsk, Atbasar and Karkaralinsk regions |
|
02.1920 – 06.1920 |
fought
against gangsters in
Semipalatinsk Province |
|
08.1920 |
Protected
Chinese border in Zaĭsan
region |
|
09.1920 |
liquidated
Bakicha (?) gangs |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
06.10.1919 – 16.10.1919 |
V.D.
Sokolovskiĭ |
|
16.10.1919 – 01.12.1919 |
acting
F.A. Podgurskiĭ |
|
01.12.1919 – 07.06.1920 |
A.E.
Kartashov |
|
07.06.1920 – 24.06.1921 |
acting
Khmyrev |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
11.10.1919 – 11.12.1919 |
G.A.
Zinov’ev |
|
11.12.1919 – 16.10.1920 |
Drapkin |
|
16.10.1920 – 24.01.1921 |
N.A.
Glinskiĭ |
|
|
|
|
|
14th Maĭkop Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
20.01.1920 |
formed
by order of 1st Horse Army from volunteer brigade
“Upraforma” army |
|
19.04.1920 |
Changed
name to 14th CD |
|
30.11.1920 |
Changed
name to 14th Maĭkop CD |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
01.1920 – 10.1923 |
1st
Horse Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
03.1920 |
participated
in rout of Denikin’s
armies in Kuban in Apsheron, Khodyzhen and Kabardin regions |
|
04.1920 – 05.1920 |
participated
in march of 1st Horse Army
to the Western Front |
|
08.1920 |
participated
in break-through of White
Poles’s front at
Samgorodok, in Novograd-Volynsk and Roven operations, fought against
White Poles toward L’vov |
|
08.1920 – 09.1920 |
fought
at Zamosc |
|
10.1920 |
fought
Wrangel’s troops in
Northern Tauridia |
|
end 1920 – beginning 1921 |
fought
the Makhnovshchina |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
30.01.1920 – 10.03.1920 |
G.S.
Maslakov |
|
10.03.1920 – 27.03.1920 |
acting
Ia.A. Levda |
|
27.03.1920 – 21.04.1920 |
acting
A.M. Poliakov |
|
21.04.1920 – 03.01.1921 |
A.Ia.
Parkhomenko |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
26.02.1920 – 16.03.1920 |
G.
Bugaĭ |
|
16.03.1920 – 23.04.1920 |
Bliokh |
|
23.04.1920 – 29.06.1920 |
G.G.
Dzhian |
|
29.06.1920 – 03.08.1920 |
Vinokurov |
|
03.08.1920 – 24.08.1920 |
E.M.
Ravikovich |
|
21.08.1920 – 17.12.1920 |
acting
E.I. Levin |
|
17.12.1920 – 03.01.1921 |
D.A.
Sushkin |
|
|
|
|
|
15th Siberian Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
30.09.1920 |
Generated
by order of Army
West-Siberian Military District
in Omsk under the name 1st West-Siberian Cavalry Division |
|
20.11.1920 |
Changed
name to 15th Siberian CD |
|
31.03.1922 |
disbanded |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
10.1920 |
West-Siberian
Military District |
|
11.1920 – 12.1920 |
South-Western
Front |
|
01.1921 – 12.1921 |
Tambov
Province Military District |
|
12.1921 – 03.1922 |
Petrograd
Military District |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
12.1920 |
moved
to South-Western Front, in Kiev
region, fought on the
right bank of the Ukraine with bands of Bulak-Balakhovich and Petliura |
|
01.1921 – 12.1921 |
participated
in liquidation of Antonov
and and other bandits in Voronezh and Tambov Provinces |
|
01.1922 – 03.1922 |
participated
in liquidation of bandits
in Velikolkuskom and Starorusskom districts |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
02.10.1920 – 19.12.1920 |
Beliaev |
|
20.12.1920 – 11.03.1921 |
A.G.
Golikov |
|
13.03.1921 – 10.05.1921 |
V.V.
Korol’kovthnov |
|
10.05.1921 – 17.07.1921 |
N.D.
Tomin |
|
29.07.1921 – 31.03.1922 |
V.I.
Dmitrienko |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
02.10.1920 – 20.02.1921 |
N.
Fedorov |
|
20.02.1921 – 25.03.1921 |
Mironenko |
|
25.03.1921 – 18.05.1921 |
Borozdin |
|
19.05.1921 – 15.11.1921 |
Gapchenko |
|
15.11.1921 – 31.03.1922 |
S.
Mikul’skiĭ |
|
|
|
|
|
16th Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
02.11.1919 |
formed
under the name Cavalry Division
of the 8th Army |
|
21.11.1919 |
changed
name to Separate Cavalry
Division of the 8th Army |
|
23.12.1919 |
changed
name to 16th Cavalry Division |
|
12.11.1921 |
disbanded |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
11.1919 – 04.1920 |
8th
Army |
|
04.1920 – 06.1920 |
9th
Army |
|
07.1920 |
13th
Army |
|
07.1920 – 12.1920 |
2nd
Horse Army |
|
12.1920 – 01.1921 |
2nd
Horse Corps |
|
01.1921 – 02.1921 |
9th
Army |
|
02.1921 – 03.1921 |
Terek
district Forces |
|
03.1921 – 05.1921 |
10th
Terek-Dagestan Army |
|
06.1921 – 11.1921 |
North-Caucasian
Military District |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
end 1919 – 04.1920 |
fought
Denikin Whiteguards in Don
district, Rostov-on-the-Don, Bataĭsk, stanitsa Ol’ginskaya |
|
05.1920 – 06.1920 |
guarded
the Azov Sea from Yeysk city to
Kurchanskaya Estuary |
|
11.1920 |
participated
in Perek-Chongar
operation, freed Dzhankoĭ and Simferopol’ |
|
01.1921 – 04.1921 |
fought
Makhnovites in Crimea and
Ukraine and Whiteguards in Piatigorsk, Kislovodsk and Nal’chik
regions |
|
05.1921 |
fought
in Maĭkop, St. Nevinnomys and
Batalpashin regions |
|
08.1921 – 11.1921 |
fought
in Mineral Waters and Essentukov
regions |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
12.11.1919 – 11.08.1920 |
S.B.
Volynskiĭ |
|
11.08.1920 – 25.08.1920 |
acting
D.I. Riabyshev |
|
25.08.1920 – 10.12.1920 |
S.B.
Volynskiĭ |
|
10.12.1920 – 19.04.1921 |
Iu.V.
Sablin |
|
19.04.1921 – 27.05.1921 |
M.L.
Polunov |
|
27.05.1921 – 18.08.1921 |
A.L.
Badin |
|
18.08.1921 – 12.11.1921 |
Ia.F.
Balakhonov |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
12.11.1919 – 26.11.1919 |
A.B.
Dubson |
|
26.11.1919 – 03.12.1919 |
N.F.
Berezin |
|
from 04.12.1919 |
A.A.
Borodin |
|
07.05.1920 – 12.06.1920 |
M.L.
Krozhevskiĭ |
|
13.06.1920 – 13.08.1920 |
N.D.
Efuni |
|
13.08.1920 – 21.08.1920 |
A.L.
Borchaninov |
|
21.08.1920 – 10.12.1920 |
Zheltov |
|
10.12.1920 – 07.6.1921 |
B.
Mal’tsev |
|
07.06.1921 – 18.08.1921 |
S.
Konovalov |
|
17.08.1921 – 15.10.1921 |
Syromiatnikov |
|
15.10.1921 – 12.11.1921 |
acting
Lev |
|
|
|
|
|
17th Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
10.02.1920 |
formed
by order of 12th Army in
Zhitomir region from Separate CB as the 15th Cavalry Brigade |
|
14.03.1920 |
expanded
into the 17th Cavalry Division |
|
18.05.1920 |
lost
(?) cavalry regiments to 58th and
7th RD |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
02.1920 – 05.1920 |
12th
Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
03.1920 |
fought
White Poles in Olevsk region |
|
05.1920 |
fought
at Teterev and Desna Rivers |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
15.02.1920 – 17.04.1920 |
A.I.
Mialkovskiĭ |
|
18.04.1920 – 08.05.1920 |
V.I.
Matuzenko |
|
09.05.1920 – 18.05.1920 |
A.K.
Iliushin |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
15.02.1920 – 02.03.1920 |
Grozdovskiĭ |
|
03.03.1920 – 18.05.1920 |
A.K.
Iliushin |
|
|
|
|
|
17th Red Cossack Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
02.09.1920 |
formed
in Kartuz-Bereza region from 2nd
CB of the 13th CD, 2nd Separate Kuban CB and Reserve Army CB |
|
01.04.1921 |
Changed
name to 17th Red Cossack CD |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
09.1920 – 10.1920 |
4th
Army |
|
10.1920 |
12th
Army |
|
from 10.1920 |
1st
Red Cossack Horse Corps |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
09.1920 |
fought
White Poles in Kobrin, St.
Manevich and Bereza-Kartuz regions, and on Rylovichi–Pinsk rail
line |
|
10.1920 – 1921 |
participated
in liquidation of
Petliura’s bands in
Proskurov, Litin regions and Tarashchanskaya, Lipovetskaya,
Letichevskaya, Berdichevskaya and Podol’skaya districts |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
07.09.1920 – 04.11.1920 |
P.M.
Borevich |
|
04.11.1920 – 31.12.1920 |
V.
Mikulin |
|
31.12.1920 – 24.04.1921 |
G.I.
Kotovskiĭ |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
09.09.1920 – 08.10.1920 |
acting
K.K. Dunis |
|
08.10.1920 – 26.04.1921 |
G.
Vilks |
|
|
|
|
|
18th Cavalry Division #1 |
|
|
|
|
22.03.1920 |
formed
by order of RVS 10th Army from
Separate P.V. Kuryshko CB under the name “Kuryshko” Cavalry
Division |
|
12.04.1920 |
Changed
name to Separate CD |
|
08.05.1920 |
Changed
name to 18th CD |
|
14.05.1921 |
disbanded
[some or all moving to 18th
CD #2] |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
04.1920 |
10th
Army |
|
04.1920 – 08.1920 |
2nd
Cavalry Corps of the 11th Army |
|
08.1920 – 05.1921 |
11th
Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
04.1920 – 05.1920 |
participated
in liberation of
Azerbaijan and liquidation of mutiny in Giandzha |
|
from 09.1920 |
guarded
border of Azerbaijan with
Dashnak Armenia |
|
02.1921 – 03.1921 |
fought
army of Menshevik Georgia,
participated in
liberation of Tiflis and Batum, suppressed a Dashnak mutiny in Armenia
and in an offensive on Erivan |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
23.03.1920 – 02.06.1920 |
P.V.
Kuryshko |
|
02.06.1920 – 26.06.1920 |
acting
I.P. Orlov |
|
26.06.1920 – 18.02.1921 |
P.V.
Kuryshko |
|
18.02.1921 – 01.03.1921 |
acting
N.A. Savin |
|
01.03.1921 – 14.05.1921 |
D.P.
Zhloba |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
24.03.1920 – 31.05.1920 |
A.D.
Kuleshov |
|
31.05.1920 – 23.07.1920 |
I.A.
Sviridov |
|
23.07.1920 – 29.11.1920 |
A.D.
Kuleshov |
|
06.12.1920 – 23.12.1920 |
G.I.
Bazegskiĭ |
|
23.12.1920 – 14.05.1921 |
G.P.
Andreev |
|
|
|
|
|
18th Cavalry Division #2 |
|
|
|
|
04.10.1919 |
formed
in Saransk by order of the
command of the Reserve Army under the name 2nd Soviet Cavalry Division |
|
03.11.1919 |
changed
name to 12th CD |
|
05.1920 |
added
personnel from 18th CD and
changed name to 18th CD |
|
31.12.1920 |
[added
1st CD as 35th CB] |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
10.1919 – 01.1920 |
Reserve
Army |
|
01.1920 – 02.1920 |
10th
Army |
|
03.1920 – 04.1920 |
2nd
Horse Corps 10th Army |
|
04.1920 – 07.1920 |
10th
Army |
|
07.1920 – 08.1920 |
Terek
District Forces |
|
08.1920 – 11.1920 |
9th
Army |
|
11.1920 |
Terek
Forces Group 11th Army |
|
11.1920 – 05.1921 |
11th
Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
01.1920 – 02.1920 |
started
in Kuban, fought along railway
Peschanokop–Belaya Glina–Tikhoretskaya–Armavir |
|
04.1920 – 07.1920 |
cleared
Whiteguards
fromBatalpashinskaya, Piatigorsk and Vladikavkaz regions |
|
08.1920 – 09.1920 |
operated
against Whiteguard Russian
Army in
Batalpashinskaya and Maikop areas, in upper reaches of Kumas and
Pokumok Rivers and against the Ulagai landing |
|
10.1920 |
it
was moved into Azerbaijan, where it
suppressed mutinies |
|
02.1921 |
participated
in Tiflis operation,
distinguishing itself at Suramskiy pass |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
04.10.1919 – 05.12.1919 |
N.F.
Paleolog |
|
05.12.1919 – 08.09.1920 |
V.P.
Glagolev |
|
08.09.1920 – 14.01.1921 |
I.F.
Lunev |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
19.10.1919 – 31.10.1919 |
acting
M. Bunzhuk |
|
01.11.1919 – 12.11.1919 |
Lifshits |
|
12.11.1919 – 26.11.1919 |
Nazarov |
|
27.11.1919 – 08.12.1919 |
M.
Lapidus |
|
09.12.1919 – 17.06.1920 |
R.A.
Berezhko |
|
17.06.1920 – 26.09.1920 |
I.E.
Kiselev |
|
26.09.1920 – 11.01.1921 |
S.
Konovalov |
|
|
|
|
|
19th Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
29.01.1921 |
formed
by order of RVS 1st Horse Army
based on the Separate V.F. Novotnogo CB |
|
02.04.1921 |
disbanded,
used to fill out 11th and
14th CD and Special CB, 1st Horse Army |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
01.1921 – 04.1921 |
1st
Horse Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
1921 |
stationed
in the Poltava and
Ekaterinoslav provinces, in
territory of which it fought the bands of Makhno, Levchenko, Kolyady,
Brovy and others, parts of the division protected sugar refineries and
railroad junctions, assisted conducting of surplus-appropriation
system, helped peasants with the sowing |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
01.02.1921 – 11.03.1921 |
N.F.
Novotnyĭ |
|
11.03.1921 – 02.04.1921 |
G.I.
Okunev |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
01.02.1921 – 02.04.1921 |
Baranov |
|
|
|
|
|
20th Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
19.05.1920 |
formed
by order of 10th Army under the
name 1st Cavalry Division |
|
16.07.1920 |
Changed
name to 20th CD |
|
06.09.1920 |
disbanded |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
05.1920 – 07.1920 |
1st
Horse Corps Zhloby |
|
07.1920 – 09.1920 |
2nd
Horse Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
06.1920 |
joined
combat in Northern Tauridia in
B. Tokmak and Chernigovka regions, sustained large losses and was
reformed |
|
07.1920 – 08.1920 |
fought
Wrangel’s army in Orekhov,
Bol’shaya and Malaya Belozerka regions |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
30.07.1920 – 30.08.1920 |
V.A.
Malakhovskiĭ |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
10.08.1920 – 06.09.1920 |
I.M.
Zaĭtsev |
|
|
|
|
|
21st Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
19.05.1920 |
formed
under the name 2nd Cavalry
Division |
|
16.07.1920 |
Changed
name to 21st CD |
|
14.03.1921 |
disbanded,
personnel used to fill the
12th and 18th CD |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
05.1920 – 07.1920 |
1st
Horse Corps |
|
07.1920 – 12.1920 |
2nd
Horse Army |
|
12.1920 – 02.1921 |
2nd
Horse Corps |
|
02.1921 – 03.1921 |
9th
Army |
|
03.1921 |
11th
Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
05.1920 – 08.1920 |
fought
Wrangel’s forces in
Northern Tauridia |
|
09.1920 |
fought
anti-Soviet bandits on Dnepr
plavni |
|
10.1920 |
fought
in Nikopol’ region |
|
10.1920 – 11.1920 |
participated
in counter-attack of the
Southern Front in Northern Tauridia and Perekop-Chongar operation |
|
12.1920 |
participated
in clearing Bakhchisaraya,
Simferopol’, Sevastopol’, liquidated Makhnovshchina in
Ekaterinoslav Province |
|
01.1921 – 02.1921 |
fought
gangsterism in the North
Caucasus in stanitsa
Shkurinskaya, Kushchevskaya, Novodereviankovskaya and Novominskaya
regions |
|
03.1921 |
moved
to Transcaucasia |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
09.06.1920 – 18.07.1920 |
M.F.
Lysenko |
|
18.07.1920 – 02.08.1920 |
F.A.
Tekuchev |
|
02.08.1920 – 04.08.1920 |
acting
R.P. Pogos’iants |
|
04.08.1920 – 14.03.1921 |
M.F.
Lysenko |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
25.06.1920 – 29.07.1920 |
M.A.
Ėkon |
|
29.07.1920 – 22.02.1921 |
G.A.
Khudenko |
|
22.02.1921 – 27.02.1921 |
S.
Konovalov |
|
27.02.1921 – 14.03.1921 |
I.M.
Grinberg |
|
|
|
|
|
Western Cavalry Division |
|
|
|
|
02.05.1919 |
Formed
by decision of the RVS Western
Front by reformation of the separate special-purpose mine-blasting
brigade |
|
07.1919 |
due
to lack of horse effectives it was
disbanded and reverted to a separate cavalry brigade. |
|
|
|
|
Unit History |
|
|
from 05.1919 |
7th
Army |
|
after 07.1919 |
Southern
Group, 7th Army |
|
|
|
|
War History |
|
|
1919 |
Fought
in Strygi Belyi–Gdov area,
liquidating Green bands and maintaining rear area security |
|
|
|
|
Division Commander |
|
|
|
A.
Dmukhovskiĭ |
|
|
|
|
Military Commissar |
|
|
|
M.
Iavich |