3rd Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union)

The 3rd Cavalry Corps was a corps of the

History

As part of the 11th Army, it took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.

The Corps was recreated on November 20, 1941 on the basis of the Dovator Cavalry Group.
For its excellent performance behind the German lines, by order of the NPO No. 342 of November 26, 1941, the 3rd Cavalry Corps was transformed into the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps, which fought during the rest of the war.^[1]

Organization (1939)

• 7th Cavalry Division
• 36th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union)^[2]
• 6th Tank Brigade

Commanders

• Commander
  Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko
  (02.1925 - 17.08.1933),
• Commander Leonid Veyner (17.08.1933 - 05.1935),
• Komdiv Danilo Srdić (17.07.1935 - fired 29.06.1937, arrested 15.07.1937, executed 26.07.1937),
• Komdiv Georgy Zhukov (07.1937 - 02.1938),
• Komdiv Yakov Cherevichenko (03.1938 - 06.1940).^[3]

2nd formation

• General-Major Lev Dovator (20.11.1941 - 19.12.1941), KIA
• General-Major Issa Pliyev (19.12.1941 - 05.03.1942);
• General-Major, General-Lieutenant
  Vladimir Kryukov
  (06.03.1942 - December 1945).

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