31st Cavalry Division (1st formation)

For 1936-1939:

• 75 cavalry regiment (room: Colonel Roitenberg Gersh Moiseevich (May 1936 - July 1939 (resigned)), Major Sokolov Sergey Vladimirovich (Wrede September 37 - December 37?).

Chief of Staff - Captain Gumenny Georgy Fedoseevich (dismissed in 1937)

• 79 Turkestan Cavalry Red Banner Regiment (comm .: Major Ovar Julian Ivanovich (March 22, 36?)), Major Kovalenko Filipp Yakovlevich (on May 15, 39)

The chief of staff is Sokolov Sergey Vladimirovich (Wrede December 36 - September 37).

• 84 Turkestan Cavalry Red Banner Regiment (room: Colonel Konstantinchenko Ivan Petrovich (dismissed on October 17, 38), Colonel Golubev Mikhail Ivanovich (on May 15, 39).
• 121 cavalry regiment
• 31 mechanized regiment (room: Colonel Bannikov Konstantin Nikolaevich (on May 15, 39))
• 31 horse-artillery regiment (room: Major Nikolsky Vladimir Gavrilovich (on May 15, 39).
• 31 separate sapper squadrons
• 31 separate communications squadron

For 1940:

• 4th cavalry regiment (comm .: Major I.F. Bukreev) deployment: p. Kraskino, Posyet district, (former 121 cavalry regiment) military unit 8183
• 12th cavalry regiment (comm .: Major I.K. Morozov). Lazo city. (former 79th Kavpolk) military unit 7871
• 98th cavalry regiment (comm .: Major V.G. Baumstein). Lazo city. (formerly 84th cavalry regiment) military unit 5958
• 151 cavalry regiment (comm .: A. Ya. Khvostov) (formerly 75 cavalry regiment) military unit 5761
• 45 tank regiment (comm .: Major A. I. Potapov) (former 31 mechanized regiment) military unit 5967
• 2 horse-artillery division (reorganized from 2 horse-artillery regiment in 1938), military unit 7885
• 15 depart. anti-aircraft machine-gun squadron (possibly not the 15th, but the 13th), military unit 6762
• (?) Dep. chemical squadron , military unit 7897
• 29 depart. communication squadron of military unit 6770
• 25 depart. combat engineer squadron of military unit 7904
• 7 depart. motor transport squadron of military unit 6778
• (?) Dep. easy transfer fleet of military unit 7915
• 23 dressing unit military unit 6806
• 312 field bakery , military unit 7922
• 43 military prosecutor's office military unit 6826
• 43 military tribunal military unit 7927

Formed in 1936 in the Far East.

75th cavalry regiment was transferred from the 15th cavalry division of ZabVO,

79th cavalry regiment - from the 6th mountain cavalry division of SAVO,

84 cavalry regiment - from the 8th mountain cavalry division SAVO.

121 cavalry regiment formed in the Siberian Military District,

31 mechanized regiment - in Kharkov.

Separate squadrons - communications and combat engineer were formed at the 8th cavalry division of OKVDA.

The staff number is 7600 people.

Dislocation for 1936–38 - Lazo, Sebuchary (45th TP).

NGO Directive No. 4/2/54087 dated 7. 12. 39 was transferred to the staff of a typical cavalry division. The equestrian artillery regiment was reorganized into the equestrian artillery battalion, the anti-aircraft battery into the anti-aircraft artillery battalion, the motor transport squadron, the dressing squad, and the PCP disbanded.

By November 1, 40, it had: 5820 personnel, including 561 commanders, 998 junior commanders, 4261 ordinary personnel ; 4572 horses, including 3498 combatant, 703 artillery, 371 convoys; 266 vehicles, including 12 cars, 139 trucks, 115 special ones; 4022 rifles and carbine; 142 light machine guns; 22 easel machine guns; 24 anti-aircraft machine guns; 12 45 mm guns, 16 76 mm anti-aircraft guns, 12 76 mm guns, 8 122 mm howitzers; 63 tanks T-26; 4 armored vehicles.

In the spring of 1941 it was disbanded. ^[one]

• 31 cavalry division on the site of the mechanized corps