The 2nd Combined Cossack Division (russian: 2-я Сводная казачья дивизия) was a

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in the

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formed from

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, and

Terek Cossacks The Terek Cossack Host (russian: Терское казачье войско, ''Terskoye kazach'ye voysko'') was a Cossack host created in 1577 from free Cossacks who resettled from the Volga to the Terek River. The local aboriginal Terek Cossacks ...

. It saw action in

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as part of the 12th Army Corps and later was demobilized in 1918.

Organization

The division consisted of the following units:2-я казачья сводная дивизия
Ria1914.info. Retrieved 13 November 2017. *1st Brigade (HQ Mogilev-Podolsk) ** 16th Don Cossack General Grekov VIII Regiment ** 17th Don Cossack General Baklanov Regiment *2nd Brigade (HQ

Kamenets-Podolsk Kamianets-Podilskyi ( uk, Ка́м'яне́ць-Поді́льський, russian: Каменец-Подольский, Kamenets-Podolskiy, pl, Kamieniec Podolski, ro, Camenița, yi, קאַמענעץ־פּאָדאָלסק / קאַמעניץ, ...

) ** 1st Kuban Cossack General Velyaminov Line Regiment ** 1st Terek Cossack Volgsky Regiment * 1st Orenburg Cossack Artillery Division (HQ Kamenets-Podolsk)

Commanders

The following is the list of the division commanders. *28.07.1899 – 14.09.1904 – Major General (later Lieutenant General) Alexei Domontovich *14.10.1906 – xx.11.1907 – Major General (later Lieutenant General) Mikhail Stoyanov *19.11.1907 – 14.09.1911 – Lieutenant General Nikolai Avdeyev *14.09.1911 – 31.12.1913 – Lieutenant General Alexei Rodionov *31.12.1913 – 24.09.1914 – Lieutenant General Leonid Zhigalin *24.09.1914 – 10.09.1915 – Lieutenant General Alexander Pavlov *16.09.1915 – 10.06.1917 – Major General

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*26.09.1917 – ? – Major General Alexander Cheryachukin

Chiefs of Staff

The following is a list of the division chiefs of staff. *15.09.1889-02.08.1891 — Colonel Dmitry Voronets *15.11.1894-30.12.1899 — Colonel

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*22.02.1900-25.05.1900 — Colonel Ivan Tolmachev *25.07.1900-09.02.1902 — Colonel Vladimir Khitrovo *16.02.1902-06.03.1905 — Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Mikhail Shishkevich *25.03.1905-09.07.1908 — Colonel Ivan Bolotov *25.08.1908-02.09.1910 — Colonel Anatoly Kalishevsky *12.09.1910-30.12.1914 — Colonel

Andrei Snesarev Andrei Evgenyevich Snesarev (13 December 1865, Staraya Kalitva, – 4 December 1937, Moscow) was a Russian linguist, orientalist and military leader. Andrei was the son of a Russian Orthodox priest. After attending gymnasium school at Novocherk ...

*?-26.07.1915 — Colonel Vladimir Agapeyev *16.08.1915-21.03.1917 — Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel)

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*16.05.1917-? — Nikolai Rot

References

External links

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