The 3rd Cavalry Corps was a corps of the
Soviet Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian language, Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist R ...
.
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. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...
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
(russian: комдив) is the abbreviation to Commanding officer of the Division (russian: командир дивизии, komandir divizii; ), and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1935 to 1940. It ...
Danilo Srdić (17.07.1935 - fired 29.06.1937, arrested 15.07.1937, executed 26.07.1937),
*
Komdiv
(russian: комдив) is the abbreviation to Commanding officer of the Division (russian: командир дивизии, komandir divizii; ), and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1935 to 1940. It ...
Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov ( rus, Георгий Константинович Жуков, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ˈʐukəf, a=Ru-Георгий_Константинович_Жуков.ogg; 1 December 1896 – ...
(07.1937 - 02.1938),
*
Komdiv
(russian: комдив) is the abbreviation to Commanding officer of the Division (russian: командир дивизии, komandir divizii; ), and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1935 to 1940. It ...
Yakov Cherevichenko
Yakov Timofeyevich Cherevichenko (russian: Я́ков Тимофе́евич Черевиче́нко; 12 October 1894 – 4 July 1976) was a Soviet military leader and colonel general.
Biography First World War and Civil War
Yakov Cherevich ...
(03.1938 - 06.1940).
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2nd formation
* General-Major Lev Dovator
Lev Mikhaylovich Dovator ( 19 December 1941) was a famous 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 Belarusian Jewi ...
(20.11.1941 - 19.12.1941), KIA
* General-Major Issa Pliyev
Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev (also spelled as ''Pliev''; os, Плиты Алыксандры фырт Иссæ; russian: Исса Александрович Плиев; — 2 February 1979) was a Soviet military commander. Pliyev would rise to be ...
(19.12.1941 - 05.03.1942);
* General-Major, General-Lieutenant Vladimir Kryukov (06.03.1942 - December 1945).
References
Cavalry corps of the Soviet Union
Soviet invasion of Poland
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