The 1st Mountain Cavalry Division was a

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-sized unit of the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

that existed during the

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and during the Allied Invasion of Iran.

History

The 1st Mountain Cavalry Division was formed originally as the "1st Mountain Cavalry Division" in July 1941 and immediately assigned to the 45th Army on the Iranian Border, under the command of Colonel Aleksandr Dmitryevich Alekseyev. In August of the same year the division was assigned to the 47th Army and in October as part of the Soviet Occupation Forces in Persia (

Transcaucasian Front Transcaucasian Front or Transcaucasus Front (russian: Закавказский Фронт) was a front of the Soviet Red Army—a military formation comparable to an army group, not a geographic military front—during the Second World War. Th ...

). In December it was re-designated to the "1st Cavalry Division" and was assigned to the 15th Cavalry Corps. Colonel

Aleksi Inauri Aleksi Inauri ( ka, ალექსი ინაური; russian: Алексей Николаевич Инаури, ''Aleksey Nikolayevich Inauri'') (May 12, 1908 – June 23, 1993) was a Soviet and Georgian commander who headed the Georgian KGB ...

commanded the division from August 1942 to February 1946. The division continued to serve as part of the Soviet occupation forces in Iran until the end of the war. Following the Soviet withdrawal from Iran in spring 1946, the division was disbanded in September of that year with the 15th Cavalry Corps as part of the 4th Army in the

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Structure

The division included the following units: * Headquarters ** 6th Cavalry Regiment ** 9th Cavalry Regiment ** 12th Cavalry Regiment

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* * {{Cite book , last=Syomin , first=Yu. , url=http://www.soldat.ru/doc/perechen/ , title=Директива № ДГШ-17 от 12.07.1996 г , publisher=General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation , year=1996 , location=Moscow , language=ru , trans-title=Directive No. DGSh-17 of 12 July 1996 Cavalry divisions of the Soviet Union