The 3rd Cavalry Corps was a corps of the

Soviet 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 Peop ...

History

As part of the 11th Army, it took part in the Soviet invasion of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

in 1939. The Corps was recreated on November 20, 1941 on the basis of the Dovator Cavalry Group.
For its excellent performance behind the German lines, by order of the NPO No. 342 of November 26, 1941, the 3rd Cavalry Corps was transformed into the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps, which fought during the rest of the war.

Organization (1939)

* 7th Cavalry Division * 36th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union) * 6th Tank Brigade

Commanders

* Commander Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (02.1925 - 17.08.1933), * Commander Leonid Veyner (17.08.1933 - 05.1935), *

Komdiv () is the syllabic abbreviation to commanding officer of the division (; ), and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1935 to 1940. It was also the designation to military personnel appointed to command ...

Danilo Srdić (17.07.1935 - fired 29.06.1937, arrested 15.07.1937, executed 26.07.1937), *

Georgy Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov ( 189618 June 1974) was a Soviet military leader who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Zhukov served as deputy commander-in-ch ...

(07.1937 - 02.1938), *

Yakov Cherevichenko Yakov Timofeyevich Cherevichenko (; 12 October 1894 – 4 July 1976) was a Soviet military leader and colonel general. Biography First World War and Civil War Yakov Cherevichenko was born to peasant parents in the village of Novosyolovka in the ...

(03.1938 - 06.1940).RKKA
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2nd formation

* General-Major

Lev Dovator Lev Mikhaylovich Dovator ( 19 December 1941) was a famous Soviet Union, Soviet major general who was killed in action during World War II and posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Life Born in 1903, Dovator came from a B ...

(20.11.1941 - 19.12.1941), KIA * General-Major

Issa Pliyev Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev (also spelled as ''Pliev''; ; ; — 6 February 1979) was a Soviet Union, Soviet military commander. Pliyev rose to become the premier cavalry general of the Soviet Army. He became Army General (1962), twice Hero of the ...

(19.12.1941 - 05.03.1942); * General-Major, General-Lieutenant Vladimir Kryukov (06.03.1942 - December 1945).

References

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