The 2nd Combined Cossack Division () was a

Cossack The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Eastern Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. Cossacks played an important role in defending the southern borders of Ukraine and Rus ...

division in the

Russian Imperial Army The Imperial Russian Army () was the army of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was organized into a standing army and a state militia. The standing army consisted of Regular army, regular troops and ...

formed from

Don Don, don or DON and variants may refer to: Places *Don (river), a river in European Russia *Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name * Don, Benin, a town in Benin * Don, Dang, a village and hill station in Dang district, Gu ...

Kuban Kuban ( Russian and Ukrainian: Кубань; ) is a historical and geographical region in the North Caucasus region of southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, the Volga Delta and separated fr ...

, and

Terek Cossacks The Terek Cossack Host was a Cossack host created in 1577 from free Cossacks who resettled from the Volga to the Terek River. The local aboriginal Terek Cossacks joined this Cossack host later. In 1792 it was included in the Caucasus Line Co ...

. Before the war it was part of the 12th Army Corps in the

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. The division saw action in

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and was demobilized in 1918.

Order of battle in 1914

The division consisted of the following units:2-я казачья сводная дивизия
Ria1914.info. Retrieved 13 November 2017. *1st Brigade (HQ Mogilev-Podolsk) **16th Don Cossack Regiment **17th Don Cossack Regiment *2nd Brigade (HQ

Kamenets-Podolsk Kamianets-Podilskyi (, ; ) is a city on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi. Formerly the administrative center of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, the city is now the administrative center of Kamianets ...

) **1st Kuban Cossack Line Regiment **1st Terek Cossack Volgsky Regiment *1st Orenburg Cossack Horse Artillery Division (HQ Kamenets-Podolsk) **1st Orenburg Cossack Horse Artillery Battery **3rd Orenburg Cossack Horse Artillery Battery

Commanders

The following is the list of the division commanders. *28.07.1899 – 14.09.1904 – Major General (later Lieutenant General) Alexei Domontovich *14.10.1906 – xx.11.1907 – Major General (later Lieutenant General) Mikhail Stoyanov *19.11.1907 – 14.09.1911 – Lieutenant General Nikolai Avdeyev *14.09.1911 – 31.12.1913 – Lieutenant General Alexei Rodionov *31.12.1913 – 24.09.1914 – Lieutenant General Leonid Zhigalin *24.09.1914 – 10.09.1915 – Lieutenant General Alexander Pavlov *16.09.1915 – 10.06.1917 – Major General

Pyotr Krasnov Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov (; – 17 January 1947), also known as Peter Krasnov, was a Russian military leader, writer and later Nazi collaborator. Krasnov served as a lieutenant general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and la ...

*26.09.1917 – ? – Major General Alexander Cheryachukin

Chiefs of Staff

The following is a list of the division chiefs of staff. *15.09.1889-02.08.1891 — Colonel Dmitry Voronets *15.11.1894-30.12.1899 — Colonel

Pavel Parchevsky Pavel ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian: Павел; Czech, Slovene, and (although Romanian also uses Paul); ; ; ) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel may refer to: People G ...

*22.02.1900-25.05.1900 — Colonel Ivan Tolmachev *25.07.1900-09.02.1902 — Colonel Vladimir Khitrovo *16.02.1902-06.03.1905 — Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Mikhail Shishkevich *25.03.1905-09.07.1908 — Colonel Ivan Bolotov *25.08.1908-02.09.1910 — Colonel Anatoly Kalishevsky *12.09.1910-30.12.1914 — Colonel

Andrei Snesarev Andrei Evgenyevich Snesarev (Russian: Андрей Евгеньевич Снесарев; 13 December 1865 – 4 December 1937) was a Russian linguist, orientalist and military leader. Andrei was the son of a Russian Orthodox priest. After atten ...

*?-26.07.1915 — Colonel Vladimir Agapeyev *16.08.1915-21.03.1917 — Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Svyatoslav Denisov *16.05.1917-? — Nikolai Rot

References

External links

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