4th Guards
Order of Kutuzov
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Cavalry Corps was a prominent cavalry formation of the Soviet
Red Army
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which served most notably as part of the
Cavalry mechanized group under the command of Guards Lieutenant General
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 ...
in operational engagements from
Operation Bagration
Operation Bagration () was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation (), a military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern ...
until the
Battle of Prague when the
Great Patriotic War
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finally came to an end.
Enagagements
Operation Bagration
Operation Debrecen
Battle of Prague
Commanders
* Lieutenant General
Nikolai Kirichenko (27.08.1942 - 03.11.1943)
* Lieutenant General
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 ...
(04.11.1943 - 05.11.1944)
* Major General Vasily Golovskoy (05.11.1944 - 08.04.1945)
* Lieutenant General
Fyodor Kamkov
Fyodor, Fedor () or Feodor is the Russian-language form of the originally Greek-language name "Theodore" () meaning "God's gift" or "god-given". Fedora () is the feminine form. "Fyodor" and "Fedor" are two English transliterations of the same Ru ...
(12.04.1945 - end of war)
References
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Further reading
* От Кубани до Праги, Краснодар, 1972
* Плиев И. А., Дорогами войны, Орджоникидзе, 1973
* Казаки-гвардейцы, Краснодар, 1980
* Четвёртый гвардейский Кубанский, Краснодар, 1981
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Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence
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As a departmental archive of Russia, it stores documents of different staffs and offices, associatio ...
(Центральный архив Министерства обороны РФ) (ЦАМО), ф. 10 гв. кд., оп. 1, д.50, л. 192
* ЦАМО, ф. 4 гв. кк.; оп. 1, д. 30, л. 2.
* ЦАМО, ф. 40 гв. кп, оп. 345798, д.1 л. 7.
* Хранилище документов новейшей истории Республики Адыгея (ХДНИ РА)ф. 1,оп. 2., д. 84, связка30, лл. 237—239.
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