15th cavalry corps (USSR)

The 15th Cavalry Corps was formed on January 1, 1942 in the Transcaucasian Front .

The 15th Cavalry Corps throughout the Great Patriotic War was part of a group of Soviet troops in Iran . It was directly subordinated to the Transcaucasian Front, at the beginning of 1945 - as part of the 4th Army , whose command has been operating in Baku since the abolition of the Baku Military District in 1946.

By the end of the war, the 15th Cavalry Corps remained the only one in the cavalry that did not receive a guards rank, since it did not participate in battles with the Nazis, fulfilling the task of covering up communications in Iran and the southwestern borders of the USSR from Turkey . Withdrew from Iran in June 1946 and disbanded.

15th Cavalry Corps ^[1]

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• 1st Cavalry Division (formed in Leninakan from July 22 to July 27, 1941. In Iran from 09/04/1941. Headquarters in Tauris. The division commander in 1942-1946, Inauri Alexei Nikolaevich ),
• 23rd Cavalry Division (formed in Stepanakert from July 25 to July 30, 1941. In Iran from 08/25/1941. Headquarters in the city of Rezaye), ^[3]
• 75th Infantry Division (in Iran since 04/14/1942. Headquarters in the city of Khoy),
• 90th separate rifle brigade (formed in the cities of Qazvin, Pahlavi from spare parts in February – April 1943),
• 15th separate anti-tank fighter division (formed in the city of Tauris in October 1942),
• 17th separate mortar division (formed in the city of Tauris in February 1943 on the basis of the 166th mortar regiment of the corps),
• 1595th anti-tank fighter regiment (formed in the city of Tauris in February 1943 on the basis of the 26th separate cavalry artillery division of the corps),
• 479th separate communications battalion (formed in the city of Tauris in July 1942 on the basis of the 19th separate communications division),

Other parts at different times in the hull

• 39th Separate Mountain Cavalry Division (formed in SAVO July 26, 1941. In Iran from 08.25.1941 to June 1946. From 1944 - 39 cd. As part of 15 kk not earlier than August 1944) ^[4] ;
• 149th tank brigade.

Corps commanders

• Colonel Selivanov, Alexey Gordeevich (from 01/01/1942 to 03/18/1942)
• Major General Melnik, Kondrat Semenovich (from 03.19.1942 to 10.15.1942)
• Colonel Damberg, Voldemar Frantsevich (from 16.10.1942 to 01.11.1943)
• Major General Gaidukov, Veniamin Andreevich (from 12.01.1943 to 01.28.1944)
• Acting Colonel Polyakov, Alexei Mikhailovich (from 01/26/1944 to 02/02/1944)
• Major General, Lieutenant General Glinsky, Mikhail Iosifovich (from 02/02/1944 to June 1946)

Deputy Corps Commander on the front end

• Colonel Selivanov, Alexey Gordeevich

Head of Politics

• Colonel Polyakov, Alexei Mikhailovich (since December 1943)

1. ↑ How cavalry fought against tanks (Rus.) , Interesting facts, stories and the most interesting from around the world . Date of treatment November 11, 2018.
2. ↑ Combat characteristics of the headquarters and units of the 15th cavalry corps (neopr.) . Memory of the people 1941-1945 .
3. ↑ Sten. 23rd Cavalry Division (Neopr.) . tankfront.ru. Date of treatment November 11, 2018.
4. ↑ 39th Separate Mountain Cavalry Division. (unspecified) . Tank Front 1939-1945. .

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