2nd Cavalry Army
2nd Cavalry Army | |
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2-я Конная армия | |
Active | 16 July 1920 |
Disbanded | 6 December 1920 |
Country | Russia |
Branch | Red Army |
Type | Cavalry Army |
Engagements | Russian Civil War |
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The 2nd Cavalry Army (Russian: 2-я Конная армия) was a cavalry army of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
History
It was created by an order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southwestern Front on 16 July 1920 from the remnants of the 1st Cavalry Corps of Dmitry Zhloba, under the command of Oka Gorodovikov.
The army, part of the Southwestern Front, included the
Perekop–Chongar operation in November, the army attacked across the Isthmus of Perekop alongside the 6th Army, defeating the Russian Army and entering Simferopol
on 13 November after the evacuation of the latter.
On 6 December 1920 the army was reorganised as the 2nd Cavalry Corps[2] in accordance with an order of 18 November.[3]
Commanders
- Oka Ivanovich Gorodovikov(16 July - 6 September 1920)
- Filipp Mironov (6 September - 6 December 1920)
References
Citations
- ^ Dvoinykh, Kariaeva, Stegantsev, eds. 1993, pp. 256–257.
- ^ Smele 2015, p. 989.
- ^ Dvoinykh, Kariaeva, Stegantsev, eds. 1991, p. 289.
Bibliography
- Dvoinykh, L.V.; Kariaeva, T.F.; Stegantsev, M.V., eds. (1991). Центральный государственный архив Советской армии [Central State Archive of the Soviet Army] (in Russian). Vol. 1. Minneapolis: Eastview Publications. ISBN 1-879944-02-2. Archived from the originalon 2016-11-12. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- Dvoinykh, L.V.; Kariaeva, T.F.; Stegantsev, M.V., eds. (1993). Центральный государственный архив Советской армии [Central State Archive of the Soviet Army] (in Russian). Vol. 2. Minneapolis: Eastview Publications. ISBN 1-879944-03-0.
- Smele, Jonathan D. (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926. London: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442252813.