Cavalry

Rank: Senior Lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ _x000D_ Ivan Sedov was born on December 11, 1913 on the Shurupovsky farm (now the Frolovsky district of the Volgograd region). After finishing four years of school, he worked at a machine-tractor station. In 1937-1939 he served in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, graduated from the courses of Junior military technicians. _x000D_ In August 1941, Sedov was recruited into the army and sent to the front of the Great Patriotic War. From 23 to 24 November 1942, he was Commander of the tank of 310th Tank Battalion of 109th Tank Brigade. Lieutenant Sedov, with his crew took part in three attacks in the area of the Vertyachy farm. Skillfully maneuvering on the combatfield, adjusting to the terrain, he went ahead of the group of tanks and by radio he adjusted the fire of the remaining tanks on the combatfield, being in the tank for more than 20 hours. By the end of the day on November 24, 1942, he reached the milestone, which is half a kilometer north-west of Vertyachiy. In three attacks, 7 guns, 5 machine guns, 2 bunkers, 90 soldiers and officers were destroyed. _x000D_ By order of the Don Front troops of November 16, 1942, on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Lieutenant Ivan Viktorovich Sedov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the Command on the front against the German invaders and for the valor and courage shown at the same time. Senior Lieutenant Ivan Viktorovich Sedov, by order of 6th Guards Cavalry Corps of 08/06/1944 No. 021 / N, was awarded the Order of the First Degree of Patriotic War. _x000D_ From the award list, the following is known about the feat: _x000D_ «...in a combat with the German invaders on July 26, 1944, while performing a combat mission to capture the village of P-Gora, withdrawing tanks, he showed courage and heroism. Performing the function of a tank Commander at the same time, Sedov suppressed, bursting into the village, 4 enemy medium-caliber guns, 1 anti-aircraft gun, one passenger car, up to 30 carts with horses, and also destroyed up to 40 Nazis.When he took possession of the village of P-Gora, Comrade Sedov, despite the fact that no one helped him, kept the whole day S-Mountain in his hands, despite repeated enemy counterattacks Sedov for his skillful leadership of the tank, which inflicted heavy losses on the enemy: defeated the enemy's train, destroyed 12 guns and over 100 Hitlerites.»_x000D_ By October 1944, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Sedov commanded a company 250- 1st Tank Regiment, 13th Guards Cavalry Division, 6th Guards Cavalry Corps, 2nd Ukrainian Front. Distinguished during the liberation of Hungary. 24 October In 1944, Sedov's company, during the combat for the Hungarian city of Nagkallo, took acombat with 20 enemy tanks, knocking out 6 of them and forcing the rest to withdraw. In that combat, Sedov died. _x000D_ He was buried in a square in the Hungarian city of Balkani. From the response to a request from the Frolovsky military registration and enlistment office to the Hungarian Red Cross, it is known that after the war, the remains of Soviet soldiers buried in the village of Balkan were reburied at the Soviet military cemetery in the city of Nyiregyhaza. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 28, 1945, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Sedov was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner and the Patriotic War of 1st degree.

Sobkalov Daniel Ivanovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Title: Red Army soldier _x000D_ Military Unit: 42nd Cavalry Division_x000D_ _x000D_ The fascist command concentrated large military forces on the Stalingrad direction. Heavy fighting unfolded along the entire southern front. There was an immediate threat of a breakthrough of the fascist troops to Stalingrad and the North Caucasus. Just at this difficult time, the battle path of Daniel Sobkalov, who fought as part of the Caucasian cavalry corps in the 42nd Caucasian regiment, began. He was in command of a platoon. Daniel Ivanovich often recalled how fierce the battle turned out. The enemy sought to cross the Kuban river, capture the high ground in the area of Maykop and Armavir, and then go to the passes of the Main Caucasus range and through them to Transcaucasia._x000D_ In these critical days, the troops were read out order No. 227, which said: "the Fighting is taking place in the area of Voronezh, on the Don, in the South of the North Caucasus, to retreat further means to destroy ourselves and at the same time our Homeland." The platoon members commanded by Sobkalov, Daniil Ivanovich, were both Russian and Chechen. They stood to die to prevent the enemy from capturing the Caucasus. By the end of September and the beginning of October 1942, the front had stabilized everywhere in the North Caucasus. The enemy did not get rich sources of Caucasian oil. And our countryman Daniil Ivanovich Sobkalov also contributed to this victory .For heroism, for skillful command in battle, he was awarded the order of the Patriotic war of the 2nd degree. But the main award was still ahead. Taking part in the liberation of our country from the German invaders in 1943, he was awarded the order of Alexander Nevsky.

Dadaev Nikolai Alexevich Rank: major General. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Unit: 67th cavalry division. Dedaev Nikolai Alekseevich was born on October 25, 1897 in the village of tagay, sengileyevsky district, Simbirsk province. Major General (4.6.1940), commander of the 67th rifle division. Member of the RCP (b) since 1918. Active participant in the Civil war. From November 1917-assistant commander, from March 1918-commander of the "1st red partisan detachment of the guards cavalry", commander of a separate squadron (from April 1918), squadron commander (from June 1918). from August 1918 — commander of the 1st Tsaritsyn cavalry regiment, then, from January 1919, he commanded the 1st Kamyshinsky cavalry regiment. N. A. Dedaev was awarded the order of the red banner for his military services. From July 1921-assistant head of the school of the 2nd cavalry division. In December 1924, he graduated from the Leningrad higher cavalry school of the red army and was appointed commander and military Commissar of the 29th cavalry regiment of the 5th cavalry division. In may 1933, he graduated from the military Academy named after M. V. Frunze, after which he was appointed assistant commander of the 12th cavalry division, from January 1934-commander and military Commissar of a separate combined mountain nationalities cavalry regiment, commander and military Commissar of the 127th cavalry regiment. From March 1937, Nikolai Alekseevich was at the disposal of the Department for command and command staff of the red army, assistant commander of the 29th cavalry division, from June 1938-the 5th cavalry corps, then from October 1939-commanded the 25th cavalry division. As a division commander, he participated in the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940). For courage, Nikolai Alekseevich was awarded the order of the red Star. Later-commander of the 22nd cavalry division, from March 14, 1941-commander of the 67th rifle division, which was stationed in the area of the Latvian town-sea base Liepaja (Libava). As part of the 8th army of the North-Western front, from the first days of the great Patriotic war, he fought with his division against the Nazis on the outskirts of Liepaja. Being a talented military commander, the day before the war Began, N. Dedaev gave the order to withdraw troops from the barracks for training and disperse them 15-25 km around the city. Thus, the first wave of Nazi bombers bombed the empty barracks of the garrison. On the third day of the fighting, June 24, General Dedaev, while on the CP of the division, received a fatal wound as a result of artillery fire. On the same day, the retreating soldiers of the Liepaja garrison buried him in a mass grave on the territory of the naval hospital. In the summer of 1947, he was reburied in the Tosmar cemetery, and in October 1977 - in the Central cemetery of Liepaja.

Demin Vasily Yakovlevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Vasily Yakovlevich Demin was born in 1925 in the village of Morevka, Bolsheignatovsky district of Mordovia.In the ranks of the red Army, a seventeen-year-old boy Vasily falls on March 2, 1942. Therefore, all archival documents and awards are registered to Vladimir Demin. After intense combat training in the Moscow region, the 73rd separate cavalry division, in which Vasily served, was sent to the Bryansk front on the afternoon of November 19, after a powerful artillery preparation and rapid actions of the advanced units, the division entered the breakthrough of the enemy defense and began fighting to liberate the village of Ust-Medvitskaya (Serafimovich city) from the invaders. January 6, 1943 On the night of January 19, units of the division, bypassing Belaya Kalitva from the South, broke into the city and, after a short street battle, drove the enemy over the Seversky Donets river. On September 15, 1943, the 15th guards cavalry division crossed the Desna river in the Rybotin-Zmetnev section, seized a bridgehead on the left Bank, broke the resistance of the fascist troops, and led an offensive to the West. Repulsing numerous enemy counterattacks, the 15th guards cavalry division, together with other formations, liberated the city of helm on July 22, for which it was awarded the order of the red banner (Decree of the Presidium of the USSR armed forces of 09.08.1944).For the courage and heroism shown in the battles, the young fighter Demin Vasily was awarded the medal "for bravery" by order of the commander of the 57th guards, cavalry red banner order of Kutuzov III degree of the Pomeranian regiment on August 8, 1944. I present Demin to the government award of the order of the Patriotic war of the first degree."In the battle for Nennhausen Demin Vasily Yakovlevich died before the age of the long-awaited victory for a few days. The order was awarded many years later to his younger brother Alexey Yakovlevich.

Rodkin Ivan Nikolaevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rodkin Ivan Nikolaevich was born in the Omsk region in the village of Solonovka in a large family with four sisters and two brothers. His father, Rodkin Nikolai Markovich, died of typhus in 1932, after which the family moved to the city of Omsk. In 1941, he volunteered for the front and served as a cavalryman throughout the war. Their division provided security for the Road of life, which passed through Lake Ladoga. The road provided food for the besieged Leningrad. Rodkin Ivan Nikolaevich participated in the battles of the Great Patriotic war as part of the Karelian front (1941-1944) and the 4th Ukrainian front in 1945. Awarded the Medal for the Defense of the Soviet Arctic, the Medal for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War. The orders of the Supreme Commander Marshal of the Soviet Union comrade Stalin for the great fighting in the battles against the German invaders declared Acknowledgements: 24.06.1944 – for excellent combat actions in crossing the river Svir (Leningrad region, Russia) 15.10.1944 – for the conquest of the city Petsamo (Russia, Murmansk oblast, Pechenga area, city settlement Pechenga) 23.10.1944 – for release of Nickel mines, Nickel city, settlements of Achmalachty and Salmiyarvi (Russia, Murmansk region, Pechenga district) 25.10.1944 – for the conquest of the town of Kirkenes (Norway, Finnmark, Ser-Varanger) 01.11.1944 – for the complete liberation of Pechenegskiy (Petsamoskaya) region 23.04.1945 – for the possession of the city of Troppau (Czech Republic, Moravian-Silesian region, Opava) 30.04.1945 for the acquisition of Moravskaya Ostrava (the Czech Republic, Moravskaya-Silesian region) 01.05.1945 for the possession of the cities Bogumin (Czech Republic, Moravian-Silesian region), Fristadt, Skochuw (Poland), Chadtsa and the Great Bytčha 03.05.1945 for the acquisition of Tseshin (Poland) 08.05.1945 – for mastering the city of Olomouc (Czech Republic, Olomouc region) 28.05.1945 Rodkin Ivan Nikolaevich was awarded the Order of the red Star. Participated in the war with Japan. Awarded The medal for the Victory over Japan on September 3, 1945. 06.04.1985 Rodkin Ivan Nikolaevich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree.

Rozhdestvensky Nikolay Konstantinovich_x000D_ Rank: Second Lieutenant. _x000D_ Branch of service: Army, Air Force, the Coast Guard, thе Soviet NKVD, the Border Guard._x000D_ _x000D_ Rozhdestvensky Nikolay Konstantinovich was born in 1910 in the city of Samarkand, UzSSR, in the family of an officer of the tsar-army and a mathematics teacher. Graduated from the Uzbekistan State Pedagogical Academy, Department of the Animal husbandry. He received the title of teacher-agronomist in animal science, who has the right to teach agricultural disciplines in agricultural technical schools, rabfakah. His further work was related to horse breeding._x000D_ He was married and had three children. When the war began, he had a reservation, but he said: "My comrades will die, and I will sit behind them?» – and went to the front, leaving his wife and three children. At the front, he was a platoon commander of the 61st cavalry division of the 222nd cavalry regiment of the 4th cavalry corps, part of the 51st army of the Stalingrad front. On November 20, it struck from the lake district Tsapa (South of Stalingrad) in the General direction of Abganerovo. In the book of combat losses of the 61st cavalry division of the 222nd cavalry regiment for 1942, it is listed: ‘Platoon commander Junior Lieutenant Nikolay Rozhdestvensky, born in 1910, 26.11.1942, was killed near the village of Sharnutovo, Stalingrad region, and buried there(extract from the archive data of the Ministry of defense of the USSR)’. There is also a monument in honor of the soldiers who fell during the liberation of the village of Sharnut Sarpinsky district from the Nazi invaders during the WWII, the name of Rozhdestvensky Nikolay Konstantinovich is carved on the memorial stone too.

Rudnev Ilya Pavlovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Red army soldier. Unit: 11th cavalry division. My great-grandfather went to war in early 1942, leaving his wife 5 months pregnant with the twelfth as a child and never came back. According to the documents that were found, "disappeared" on June 12-August 1942. When I started looking for its history, I found out that part of it wasn't even in the area mentioned in the documents. Official data: Ilya Rudnev, red army soldier. Date of birth: __. __.1899. Place of birth: Voronezh region, Vodopyanova R-n, S. Springs, D. Red. Date and place of call: Vodopyanova RVC, the Voronezh region, Vodopyanova district. Last duty station: 11 CP 2 d-n 4 ESC. 3 VZV. p / I 83/4 date of disposal__. 08. 1942. Reason for departure: missing. Source of information: CAMD Wife: Rudneva Akulina A. R. 1889, the Voronezh region, Vodopyanova R-n St Chirikovo d Red. The story is strange, his regiment at that time was on the Kalinin front, 2 months out of the encirclement near Rzhev, as soon as it came out, it was immediately disbanded due to the fact that it was practically absent; almost all were killed. The date of disbandment of the regiment is also June 12, 1942... It is said about my grandfather that he died at Shadrinsk. There wasn't even any fighting there, deep in the rear - how could he have gone missing there? There is also a story from the mouth of the grandmother (daughter of Ilya Pavlovich), that he was a cavalryman, died because he fell from his horse during the attack... Fell, crashed, lived for three days and died... If he went missing, where does this data come from? I turned to the volunteers conducting the search, here's what they write: Rudnev's Wife A. A., having no information about her husband, submitted a request for his search and indicated all the information available about him, including Shadrinsk, p / I 83/4, in which, most likely, Rudnev was in the reserve regiment of the training unit immediately after the call. I tried to break through the OBD, but I didn't find any fighters with this address. Reports of irretrievable losses: Report number 85930. Type of report reports of irretrievable losses. Date of report 16.10.1944. Part name: 4 ed. Information from the report on irretrievable losses: last Name: Rudnev. Name: Ilya. Patronymic Name: Pavlovich. Date of birth/Age __.__. 1899. Place of birth Voronezh region, Vodopyanova R-n, S. Springs, D. Red. Date and place of call Vodopyanovsky RVC, Voronezh region, Vodopyanovsky district Last duty station 11 KP 2 d-n 4 esk. 3 VZV. p / I 83/4. Military rank: red army soldier. Reason for departure: missing. Date of disposal: __. 08. 1942. Name of the information source: TSAMO. Information source Fund number: 58. information source inventory Number: 18002. In column 4 "in what part did you serve", all the information available to the wife about the husband's service is indicated, i.e. and the training (spare) part in Shadrinsk.11 KP 5 KD 26.11.41 converted to 1 guards 1 GV. KD (new numbering of division units assigned 10.2.1942)- http://www.soldat.ru/force/sssr/rkka/kav/06_kavpolk2.html1-я [ http://www.soldat.ru/force/sssr/rkka/kav/06_kavpolk2.html1-я] guards cavalry division - http://www.tankfront.ru/ussr/kd/gvkd01.html [ http://www.tankfront.ru/ussr/kd/gvkd01.html] on 01.06.1942 1st GV. KK-Zfna 01.07.1942 1st GV. KK - Zfvypisk from the combat characteristics of 1 GV. KD (TSAMO Fund 208 inventory 2511 storage unit 1047)"... H) After a five-month stay in the raid of the division, together with the rest of the Corps, Lieutenant General T. Belov, on the night of 11.6, the task was set – at all costs to break through the Baltutino – Yelnya highway and go to the district of the location of the partisan regiment "Lazo", in the future to go to break through the front, to connect with our troops. The output of the raid was divided into 4 main stages: the Breakthrough Baltasinskogo highway with access to the "Lazo"; the Assault on the Warsaw highway; the Breakthrough of water line at R. Snooty, in the district of the Pit, with the release of the Kirov forests; Breakthrough front.1. The breakthrough of the Baltuninsky highway was planned in the district of Berniki, here it was necessary to break through the 10 km strip occupied by the enemy. Before the division had the task to blow the Old, Lenovo and Bernice to go to R-n Sivtseva Solvency. In the morning 8.6.42 regiments engaged in battle with the enemy for Palimony. The enemy stubbornly resisted, but under the onslaught of our units was forced to withdraw to Buda Staraya and Lechovo. By 2.00 9.6.42 parts, breaking the resistance of the PR-ka near Lechovo and Buda Staraya, capturing Berniki and putting up a barrier on the highway-5 GV. KP in horse formation attacked the highway and broke into the district of Sivtsevo-Solovenki... during this operation, the enemy suffered heavy losses in both manpower and equipment. The German command, having learned about the breakthrough, threw up to two regiments of bomber and fighter aircraft to defeat and destroy the Belovsky group. Parts of the division, concentrated in the district: Bol. Pavlovo, Berezovka and the surrounding forest were subjected to continuous bombardment every day for 16 hours. There was not a moment when the air was not circling from 5 to 10 enemy aircraft, but this had little effect on the guards, who had to be in a worse situation. 2. with two crossings, the division is concentrated in the woods under the Warsaw highway. On the night of 12.6 the division, having made a March, concentrated in the woods in the village of Klin. From dawn until 23.00 again continuous bombing. The Germans wanted to morally influence the horse guards, but it was useless. People are determined only to break through and no bombing could not keep the desire to get out of the raid with honor and valor. On the night of 15.6, the division's units were concentrated in the forest at 226.4 km. North of Varshavki and 16.6, the division commenced a major task – to storm highway. To 1.00 17.6 (5 and 3 Guards. KP), (Here, apparently, an error with the date – to 1.00 16.7), breaking the heavy fire of the enemy, broke through the highway in the area: the farm Border and Zaitsivka, putting up barriers right and left, thereby ensuring the passage of parts. The enemy was taken aback at the beginning by the sudden action of the guards, but, having recovered, immediately threw up tanks and began to fire at our skipping units with a hurricane of artillery. For three km, already behind the highway, breaking the resistance of the PR-ka division by 7.00 16.6 went into the woods of the Red district. 3. Shelves by March in the period of daylight, to 23: 00 16.6 focused – the forest and the shrubs of the West. Lazinki, by the same time 1 GV. K (P?) with the battle captured the crossing in the district of lazinki, covered the withdrawal through the river. Snopot, which at the quarry, under machine-gun and mortar fire of the enemy slipped through the Kirov forests in the district of Gurikov, where they concentrated by dawn 17.6. After giving rest to the personnel and horses, on the night of 19.6, they began to perform the last and most important task – breaking the front. Breaking the main points of resistance on the front line, being subjected to a hurricane of fire at one o'clock, and passing completely unnoticed at one o'clock, the regiments left the RAID at dawn on 22.6, successfully completing a glorious campaign on the enemy's rear. The Chief Of Staff Of 1 GW. CD GW. Major (Tokarev). The Military Commissar Of The Headquarters Of 1 GW. CD GW. Baht. The Commissioner (Babucke) Head Office 1 GW. The Captain (The Elderly)." That's all I know so far.

Romanenko Vasily Mikhailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ During the Great Patriotic war, he served in Belarus as the head of the special Department of cavalry intelligence. In 1942, he was surrounded. Through the Belarusian forests, he broke through to his own. He was seriously wounded, shell-shocked, and captured. He escaped from captivity, but unsuccessfully. Another captivity - and now a concentration camp in Norway. Blood was taken from prisoners of war all the time. Vasily began to weaken, saved by the fact that he was transferred to a farm to take care of pigs. When our ships from the sea began to bomb Norway, all the prisoners of war were herded back to the camp. They were going to destroy them all, but the Soviet sailors arrived in time. When our prisoners of war were released, none of them could leave the camp on their own feet. The sailors carried them out on their hands and loaded them on boats. Until 1946, he was treated in various hospitals. He returned to his native village of Romanovskaya in the Rostov region. His wife, having received a funeral certificate for him at the beginning of the war, married. It was hard to get into a new life, because they did not like those who were in captivity. A literate man, in the past, a lawyer, but who lost his party card (when in 1942 he broke out of the encirclement, buried the party card in the forest), Vasily Mikhailovich was deprived of the Rank of Communist. But, having a firm character, Vasily Mikhailovich did not shy away from any work: at the dairy, as a carpenter, as a school caretaker. The girl Vera fell in love with Vasily and was not afraid to marry him. So, Vasily Mikhailovich in his fortieth year of life had a new family. He was a self-taught musician: he played the accordion, trumpet, flute and clarinet. He created a brass band at the house of culture. Then his hobby, music, became a second profession. In 1963. restored to the party.

Rank: Lieutenant Type of troops: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guard Unit: fourth cavalry division Vasily Vlasenko 1919g. R. in the Rostov region, Kasharsky district, N.-Kalinovsky s/s. in the red army since 1941 place of conscription: Kasharsky RVC, Rostov region, Kasharsky district. Member of the Komsomol. At the front since 1944. In January, the corps units were sent through the open flank of the enemy to RAID through the Polesie marshes to capture the Kalinkovichi-Brest railway and assist the front troops in capturing Mozyr and Kalinkovichi. 4th GW. The CD successfully advanced through extremely difficult terrain, bypassing resistance points, but was unable to cross to the Northern Bank of the river. Pripyat at Kostyukovichi. Then the division was moved to the West and successfully crossed the ice of the Pripyat East of Skrygalovo, supporting parts of the 17th guards CD. on January 15-17, the division's soldiers repelled enemy counterattacks, holding a bridgehead on the North Bank of the Pripyat and firing at the highway and railway Kalinkovichi-Brest. January 18, rifle units replaced KAV divisions.T he corps on the bridgehead. For its outstanding role in the liberation of the cities of Mozyr and Kalinkovichi, the fourth GV KD (as well as other divisions of the corps) received the honorary name "Mozyr". Until July 1944, units of the second guards KK were in reserve, and then took part in operation Bagration as part of the "horse-mechanized Kryukov group" (2nd guards KK and 11th tank corps) of the 1st Belorussian front. The task of the group was to force the Western bug and cut off the army Group "Center" of the escape route beyond the Vistula. 4-I GV. KD successfully advanced, covering the city of Vlodava from the West and forcing the enemy to retreat. Then the 4th GW. KD seized an important road junction town of międzyrzec, capturing rich booty. In the area of Sedlec, parts of the corps engaged in heavy fighting with enemy reserves, which were trying to help the encircled group South-East of Brest. Soldiers of the fourth guards division repulsed the enemy attacks and after six days of fighting captured the city of Sedlec. The 11th guards cavalry red Banner regiment of the 4th guards KD was given the honorary name "Sedletsky". After the completion of the Lublin-Brest operation, parts of the second guards KK were withdrawn to the front reserve. 1945 January 15, 1945 part of the second guards. The KK crossed the Vistula river near the Magnushevsky bridgehead and entered the breakthrough on January 16 (the Vistula-Oder operation). The cavalrymen advanced north, cutting off the enemy's escape routes in the Warsaw area, again reached the Vistula in the Plock area, and then captured the city of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz). Following the operation, the 4th guards division was awarded the Order of the red banner. Subsequently, the cavalrymen developed an offensive in Pomerania, and in the battles of February 27-March 1 broke through the "Pomeranian wall". Fourth GW. KD on the left flank of the corps provided a joint with the first army of The Polish Army, and then forced a March into the breakthrough and developed an offensive in the direction of Poltsin. At the final stage of the great Patriotic war, the second guards regiment took part in the Berlin operation. On April 20, the fourth GV. KD (15th GV. KP) broke through the enemy's defences South of Frankfurt-on the Oder. Then the corps was regrouped with the task of striking from the North at the rear of the enemy group departing from Frankfurt. On April 23, the fourth GV. KD failed in an attempt to force the R. Spree under heavy enemy fire and was withdrawn to the corps reserve. The division covered the flanks and rear of the corps from enemy formations trying to break out of the encirclement. On April 27, the corps was assigned the task of bypassing Berlin from the North, defeating the enemy and reaching the Elbe. In the battles for the city of Frizak, the soldiers of the 4th GV. KD distinguished themselves, the commanders of the 15th GV. KP Smirnov AA became a Hero of the Soviet Union. In the battle for the city of Skierniewice, łowicz, Bromberg. Guard Lieutenant Vlasenko showed himself to be a brave and courageous officer; his PTR platoon repeatedly destroyed enemy firing points and equipment with well-aimed shots from a PTR rifle. In the battle for the city of Bromberg on January 24, 1945. V. I. Vlasenko was one of the first to break into the city dragging the soldiers with him and showing an example of courage and fearlessness. When the seriously wounded squadron commander was in the crossfire of the enemy, platoon leader Vlasenko, despising death, pulled out the wounded commander, where he was also seriously wounded. By order No. 13 / n of February 20, 1945. 2-th GUARDS red banner CAVALRY CORPS, on behalf of the PVS of the USSR for exemplary performance of fighting tasks of command at the front struggle with the Nazis, and for his valour and courage at the 4 guards cavalry division Mozyr, awarded the Order of Patriotic War I grade the platoon commander of 11 AV cavalry regiment, Guards Lieutenant Vlasenko Vasily Iosifovich.

Demonstration dedicated to the farewell of the 115th Kabardino-Balkarian Cavalry Division to the front. Nalchik city. May 1942.

Кавалеристы 115-й Кабардино-Балкарской кавалерийской дивизии. 1942 г.

Defense of Kiev. A cavalry patrol on the move

Horse patrol at Manezhnaya Square

Soviet soldiers in the streets of Belgrade

Cossacks on the march