4th Guards Cavalry Corps

The 4th Guards Kuban Order of Lenin Order of Suvorov, Order of Kutuzov Cossack Cavalry Corps was a cavalry corps of the Red Army from 1942 to 1946. It was formed on 27 August 1942 from the 17th Cavalry Corps. It was disbanded in 1946 by being redesignated the 4th Guards Cavalry Division. As 4th Guards Cavalry Division, it was the last cavalry division in the Soviet Army, disbanding in 1955.[1]

4th Guards Cavalry Corps on the march during the Odessa operation (April 1944)
Kuban Cossacks from the corps during the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945

Commanders
  • Lieutenant General Nikolai Kirichenko (27.08.1942 - 03.11.1943)
  • Lieutenant General Issa Pliyev (04.11.1943 - 05.11.1944)
  • Major General Vasily Golovskoy (05.11.1944 - 08.04.1945)
  • Lieutenant General Fyodor Kamkov (12.04.1945 - end of war)

Notes
  1. Feskov et al 2013, pp. 232–233.
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References
  • Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.

Further reading
  • От Кубани до Праги, Краснодар, 1972
  • Плиев И. А., Дорогами войны, Орджоникидзе, 1973
  • Казаки-гвардейцы, Краснодар, 1980
  • Четвёртый гвардейский Кубанский, Краснодар, 1981
  • Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence (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.
  • Хазретбий Сиджах. (1998). Адыгейский полк в боях за Советскую Родину. Maikop: РИПО «Адыгея». p. 568. ISBN 5-7992-0021-7.
  • Глухов В.М., Ачмиз А.Г. (2008). Адыгея в дни Великой Отечественной войны. Майкоп: ОАО <<Полиграфиздат «Адыгея»>>. Научный редактор доктор исторических наук Ачмиз А.Г. pp. 266–293. ISBN 978-5-7992-0488-4.
  • Soviet Military Encyclopedia: [В 8 томах]. 4 "К-22"-Линейный. Moscow, Voenizdat. Пред.Гл. комиссии Н. В. Огарков. 1977. pp. 502–503.
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