4th Guards
Order of Kutuzov
The Order of Kutuzov (russian: орден Кутузова ''orden Kutuzova'') is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named after famous Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745–1813). The Order was established du ...
Cavalry Corps was a prominent cavalry formation of the Soviet
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, after ...
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''; os, Плиты Алыксандры фырт Иссæ; russian: Исса Александрович Плиев; — 2 February 1979) was a Soviet military commander. Pliyev would rise to be ...
in operational engagements from
Operation Bagration
Operation Bagration (; russian: Операция Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation (russian: Белорусская наступательная оп ...
until
Battle of Prague when the
Great Patriotic War
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sout ...
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''; os, Плиты Алыксандры фырт Иссæ; russian: Исса Александрович Плиев; — 2 February 1979) was a Soviet military commander. Pliyev would rise to be ...
(04.11.1943 - 05.11.1944)
* Major General Vasily Golovskoy (05.11.1944 - 08.04.1945)
* Lieutenant General
Fyodor Kamkov
Fyodor, Fedor (russian: Фёдор) or Feodor is the Russian form of the name " Theodore" meaning “God’s Gift”. Fedora () is the feminine form. Fyodor and Fedor are two English transliterations of the same Russian name.
It may refer to:
Gi ...
(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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(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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