The 5th Cavalry Division (russian: 5-я кавалерийская дивизия , ''5-ya Kavaleriiskaya Diviziya'') was a

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formation of the

Russian Imperial Army The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...

Organization

*1st Cavalry Brigade **

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*2nd Cavalry Brigade **

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** 5th Regiment of Don Cossacks * 5th Horse Artillery Battalion

Commanders of the 1st Brigade

*1910–1914:

Aglay Dmitriyevich Kuzmin-Korovaev Aglay (Aleksey) Dmitriyevich Kuzmin-Korovaev (May 23, 1864 – 1918) was an Imperial Russian lieutenant general and division commander. He was the younger brother of Vladimir Kuzmin-Karavayev.Семь веков служат отечеству, с. ...

References

{{Russian Empire Divisions Cavalry divisions of the Russian Empire Military units and formations disestablished in 1918