The 11th Cavalry Corps of the

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was a cavalry corps active during the

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. It was created on 12 January 1942 at

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. General Grigory Timofejev took command.Bonn, Keith E. ''Slaughterhouse: Handbook of the Eastern Front''. Bedford, PA: Aberjona Press, 2005, p. 347

Second World War

On January 12, 1942, the 11th Cavalry Corps passed the breakthrough sector of 39th Army, raided the far rear of the German

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alongside the west of the

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traffic line. On January 26, 1942, the Cavalry Corps cut the

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road on the west of Vyazma, kept contact with the 33rd Army, the pioneering of Western Front, on the south-west of Vyazma, completed its campaign mission to envelop the Vyazma City. From February to June 1942, the Cavalry Corps with 39th Army insisted defending the salient in the vicinity between Bely and Kholm-Zhirkovsky, which is nearly encircled by German troops, only a narrow corridor between Bely and Olenino to the main forces of

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remained. On July 2, 1942, the 9th Army of Germany launched the Operation Seydlitz, which is called Holme-Zhirkovskaya defensive operation by the Soviet Union, to eliminate the salient in the vicinity between Bely and Kholm-Zhirkovsky and annihilate the 39th Army and 11th Cavalry Corps. Intense fighting carried on to July 17, and the last resistance extinguished on July 23. After that, the unit designation of 11th Cavalry Corps was annulled in August 1942.

Campaign history

January–July 1942 : Sychyovka-Vyazma Offensive as a mobile group of Kalinin Front in 1942 : Holme-Zhirkovskaya defensive operation July 2–23, 1942

Orders of Battle

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(1934–1942) *

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(1935–1943) * 82nd Cavalry Division (Soviet Union) (1941–1942)

Commanders of the 11th Cavalry Corps

:General Grigory Timofejev (January–May 1942) :Colonel, from July 1942, Major General Sergei Vladimirovich Sokolov (May–August 1942).

References

Sources

* Glants, D.M. (1), ''Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War'', Frank Cass, London, 1989 * Glantz, D.M. (2), ''Companion to Colossus Reborn: key documents and statistics'', University of Kansas2005 * ''Perecheni No.4, Command of Corps which were a part of the active Army during the years of the Great Patriotic War 1941-45'', Supplement to the direction of the General Staff for year 1956 No.168780, Moscow, 1956 {{Soviet Union corps 011 Military units and formations established in 1942 Military units and formations disestablished in 1942 1942 establishments in the Soviet Union