|
3rd Cavalry Division (Soviet Union)
The 3rd Cavalry Division was a military unit in the Red Army, Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of the Soviet Armed Forces, Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. History The division was formed in January 1923 by renaming the 4th Cavalry Division into the 3rd Cavalry Division. The division was part of the 2nd Cavalry Corps of the Kiev Military District, Ukrainian Military District. On June 17, 1924, the division received the name "Bessarabia, Bessarabian". On August 6, 1925, the division was named after Grigory Kotovsky. In 1928, the division was awarded the Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner and the Order of the Red Banner. In 1935, the division was awarded the Order of Lenin. On May 17, 1935, the Ukrainian Military District was divided into the Kiev and Kharkov Military Districts. The 2nd Cavalry Corps became part of the Kiev Military District. On July 26, 1938, the Main Military Council of the Red Army transformed the Kiev Military District into the Kiev Specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Guards Cavalry Division
The 5th Guards Cavalry Division (Bessarabian–Tannenberg, Order of Lenin, Grigory Kotovsky, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov) was a military unit in the Red Army, Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Soviet Armed Forces, Armed Forces) of the Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the Eastern Front (World War II), Great Patriotic War. History For the displayed heroism, courage and courage of the personnel, organization and skillful performance of combat missions on December 25, 1941, the 3rd Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 3rd Cavalry Division was transformed into the 5th Guards Cavalry Division. The division successfully fought as part of the 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps in the Battle of Stalingrad, in the offensive operation of the Southern Front (Soviet Union), Southern Front troops in the Donbass (February 1943), in the Battle of Smolensk (1943), Smolensk Offensive Operation in 1943 and the Operation Bagration, Belarusian Offensive Operation in 1944. In October 1944, units o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiev Military District
The Kiev Military District (; , abbreviated ) was a military district of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Red Army and Soviet Armed Forces. It was first formed in 1862, and was headquartered in Kiev (Kyiv) for most of its existence. Imperial Russian Army formation The Kiev Military District was an Military district (Russian Empire), imperial military district, a territorial division type utilised to provide more efficient management of army units, their training and other operations activities related to combat readiness. The district originally covered the Kiev Governorate, Podolia Governorate (less Balta County), and Volhynia Governorate. Assigned formations included the 10th Army (Russian Empire), 10th Army. In 1888, the Kharkov Military District was merged into the Kiev Military District. With the start of World War I the district was transformed into the 3rd Army (Russian Empire), 3rd Army. In April 1917, Poltava and Kursk governorates were transferred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Meltyukhov
Mikhail Ivanovich Meltyukhov (, ; born 14 March 1966) is a Russian military historian. Works Meltyukhov was born in Moscow. In 1995, he defended the dissertation “Contemporary Historiography on Pre-history of the German-Soviet War” on historiography concerning the beginning of World War II. Since then, he has published several studies, many of which are notable for the critical review of the official Soviet conceptions of World War II. Some important works in this direction are ''On the Verge of the Great Patriotic War: the Debate Goes on'' and '' Stalin's Missed Chance'' and ''"Soviet-Polish Wars: Military and Political Standoff in 1918-1939"''. Meltyukhov also contributed to a recently published collection of articles on Viktor Suvorov's ideas. Meltyukhov supported some ideas of Suvorov in general but criticised him for inaccuracies. Meltyukhov's latest work, ''Stalin's Liberation Campaign'', dealt with Joseph Stalin's attempts to regain 'lost territories' of the Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Maleyev
Mikhail Maleyev (; 1899 – 23 February 1964) was a Soviet corps commander. He fought for the Bolsheviks in the civil war against the White movement and against Nazi Germany in the Second World War. He was a recipient of the Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov, Order of Kutuzov and the Order of the Red Star The Order of the Red Star () was a military decoration of the Soviet Union. It was established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 6 April 1930 but its statute was only defined in decree of the Presidium of the .... He retired at the age of 56. References * * 1899 births 1964 deaths Military personnel of the 1st Cavalry Army Soviet military personnel of World War II Soviet major generals Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class Recipients of the Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class {{DEFAULTSORT:Maleyev, Mikhail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Terentev
Vasily Grigorevich Terentev (March 3, 1899 – January 26, 1957) was a Soviet military leader, Lieutenant general (November 2, 1944). Initial biography Vasily Grigorevich Terentev was born on March 3, 1899, in the village of Ardon. Military service First World War and Civil War In February 1915, he was drafted into the ranks of the Russian Imperial Army and sent as a private to the Kars Fortress Military Telegraph Office, then served in the 5th Caucasian Border Regiment, with which he took part in hostilities on the Caucasian Front. Having been wounded, he was treated in a military hospital in Tiflis. After recovery, from May 1917 he served in the 268th Infantry Reserve Regiment, stationed in the city of Erivan.Team of Authors. Great Patriotic War: Division Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary. Commanders of Rifle, Mountain Rifle Divisions, Crimean, Polar, Petrozavodsk Divisions, Reboly Divisions, Fighter Divisions (Pivovarov – Yatsun) – Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole, 2014 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelisey Goryachev
Yelisey Ivanovich Goryachev (1892 – December 12, 1938) was a Soviet Komkor (corps commander). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner. During the Great Purge, he was one of the military judges in the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization of Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky on June 11, 1937. On February 4, 1938, Goryachev was formally promoted to Komkor and was named as commander of the cavalry army in Kiev on July 26, 1938. Fearing arrest, he committed suicide by shooting himself in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine Khmelnytskyi (, ) is a city in western Ukraine. Located on the Southern Bug, it serves as the administrative centre of Khmelnytskyi Oblast as well as Khmelnytskyi Raion within the oblast. With a population of Khmelnytskyi is the second-large .... Bibliography * Жуков Г. К. Воспоминания и размышления. В трёх томах. Де� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Krivoruchko
Nikolai Nikolayevich Krivoruchko (; ; December 6, 1887 – August 19, 1938) was a Soviet Komkor (corps commander). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks during the subsequent civil war. He was a recipient of the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner. During the Great Purge The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (), also known as the Year of '37 () and the Yezhovshchina ( , ), was a political purge in the Soviet Union that took place from 1936 to 1938. After the Assassination of Sergei Kirov, assassination of ..., he was arrested on February 21, 1938 and later executed. Awards * Order of Lenin (1935) * Two Orders of the Red Banner (11.11.1921, 31.10.1930) Герои Гражданской войны. Криворучко Николай Николаевич. // Военно-исторический журнал. — 1971. — № 4. — С.57-58. Memorial * In Uman (Cherkasy region, Ukraine) there is str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)
The Southwestern Front was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War, formed thrice. It was first created on June 22, 1941 from the Kiev Special Military District. The western boundary of the front in June 1941 was 865 km long, from the Pripyat River and the town of Wlodawa to the Prut River and the town of Lipkany at the border with Romania. It connected to the north with the Western Front, which extended to the Lithuanian border, and to the south with the Southern Front, which extended to the city of Odessa on the Black Sea. Operational history The Southwestern Front was on the main axis of attack by the German Army Group South during Operation Barbarossa. At the outbreak of war with Germany, the Front was commanded by Mikhail Kirponos and contained the Soviet 5th, 6th, 26th, and 12th Armies along the frontier. 16th and 19th Armies were in reserve behind the forward forces. These forces took part in the tank battles in western Ukraine Ukra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6th Combined Arms Army
The 6th Red Banner Combined Arms Army () is a field army of the Red Army and the Soviet Army that was active with the Russian Ground Forces until 1998 and has been active since 2010 as the 6th Combined Arms Army (в/ч 31807). It was first formed in August 1939 in the Kiev Special Military District from the Volochiskaya Army Group (a corps-sized formation). First Formation In September 1939 it participated in the Soviet invasion of Poland. At the beginning of war the Army ( 6th Rifle Corps, 37th Rifle Corps (which included the 80th, 139th, and 141st Rifle Divisions), 4th and 15th Mechanized Corps, 5th Cavalry Corps, 4th Fortified Region, and 6th Fortified Region (Rava-Ruska), and a number of artillery and other units) was deployed on the Lviv direction. It started the Great Patriotic War as part of the Southwestern Front. The army's headquarters was disbanded 10 August 1941 after the Battle of Uman. In this battle, the 6th Army was caught in a huge encirclement south of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union)
The 5th Cavalry Corps was a cavalry corps of the Red Army. The 5th Cavalry Corps headquarters was formed at Pskov in accordance with a Red Army General Staff directive of 25 August 1935 and a Leningrad Military District directive of 8 February 1936, under the command of Komdiv Konstantin Rokossovsky. The corps included the 16th, 25th, and 30th Cavalry Divisions. During the Great Purge, Rokossovsky was arrested and imprisoned on 17 August 1937. His successor, Kombrig Dmitry Vaynerkh-Vanyarkh, was arrested on 10 February 1938 and later executed. Komdiv Vasily Gonin succeeded command of the corps on 6 June 1938. The 30th Cavalry Division was disbanded in 1938 and the 16th and 25th Cavalry Divisions transferred in 1939. The corps headquarters moved from Pskov to Kamenets-Podolsk in May 1939, transferring to the Kiev Special Military District together with its 16th Cavalry Division. After the relocation of the corps headquarters, Gonin was found drunkenly harassing passerby in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigory Kotovsky
Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky (, ; – August 6, 1925) was a Soviet military officer and political activist, and participant in the Russian Civil War. He made a career from being a gangster and bank robber to eventually becoming a Red Army commander and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. Early life Kotovsky was born in the Bessarabia Governorate, the son of a mechanical engineer. Officially, Kotovsky claimed to be born in 1887. He also had five siblings. His father was a Russian citizen of Polish descent and his mother an ethnic Russian. By ancestry, Kotovsky hailed from an aristocratic Polish family from Kamyanets-Podilsky. His grandfather, because of connections with members of the Polish uprising, was dismissed from Russian service and eventually went bankrupt. His father was forced to move to Bessarabia and become a Russian burgess. Kotovsky suffered from a marked stuttering and was left-handed. At the age of 2, he lost his mother and, at 16, his fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian Civil War, especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army. In February 1946, the Red Army (which embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces alongside the Soviet Navy) was renamed the "Soviet Army". Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union it was split between the post-Soviet states, with its bulk becoming the Russian Ground Forces, commonly considered to be the successor of the Soviet Army. The Red Army provided the largest land warfare, ground force in the Allies of World War II, Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its Soviet invasion of Manchuria, invasion of Manchuria assisted the un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
