4th Guards
Order of Kutuzov
The Order of Kutuzov (russian: орден Кутузова ''orden Kutuzova'') is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named after famous Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745–1813). The Order was established ...
Cavalry Corps was a prominent cavalry formation of the Soviet
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...
which served most notably as part of the
Cavalry mechanized group under the command of Guards Lieutenant General
Issa Pliyev
Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev (also spelled as ''Pliev''; os, Плиты Алыксандры фырт Иссæ; russian: Исса Александрович Плиев; — 2 February 1979) was a Soviet Union, Soviet military commander. Pliyev wo ...
in operational engagements from
Operation Bagration
Operation Bagration (; russian: Операция Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation (russian: Белорусская наступательная оп ...
until
Battle of Prague when the
Great Patriotic War
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sou ...
finally came to an end.
Enagagements
Operation Bagration
Operation Debrecen
Battle of Prague
Commanders
* Lieutenant General
Nikolai Kirichenko (27.08.1942 - 03.11.1943)
* Lieutenant General
Issa Pliyev
Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev (also spelled as ''Pliev''; os, Плиты Алыксандры фырт Иссæ; russian: Исса Александрович Плиев; — 2 February 1979) was a Soviet Union, Soviet military commander. Pliyev wo ...
(04.11.1943 - 05.11.1944)
* Major General Vasily Golovskoy (05.11.1944 - 08.04.1945)
* Lieutenant General
Fyodor Kamkov (12.04.1945 - end of war)
References
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Further reading
* От Кубани до Праги, Краснодар, 1972
* Плиев И. А., Дорогами войны, Орджоникидзе, 1973
* Казаки-гвардейцы, Краснодар, 1980
* Четвёртый гвардейский Кубанский, Краснодар, 1981
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Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence (Центральный архив Министерства обороны РФ) (ЦАМО), ф. 10 гв. кд., оп. 1, д.50, л. 192
* ЦАМО, ф. 4 гв. кк.; оп. 1, д. 30, л. 2.
* ЦАМО, ф. 40 гв. кп, оп. 345798, д.1 л. 7.
* Хранилище документов новейшей истории Республики Адыгея (ХДНИ РА)ф. 1,оп. 2., д. 84, связка30, лл. 237—239.
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