1st Zaamursky border cavalry regiment - since 1910, the cavalry unit in the troops of the Zaamursky district of the Separate Corps of the Border Guard of the Russian Empire .
History
By order of the Chief of the Zaamursky District OKPS, Lieutenant General Chichagov No. 9 of March 10, 1910, on the basis of the order of the Chief of the Border Guard No. 5a of January 27, 1910, the troops of the district were transferred to infantry and horse regiments. At the same time, the 1st Zaamur border cavalry regiment was formed from personnel of the 3rd, 8th, 13th, 42nd, 43rd and 48th hundreds. By order of the head of Zaamursky district, Lieutenant General Chichagov No. 126 dated March 29, 1910, hundreds of consecutive numbers were introduced in the newly formed regiments (from 1 to 6) [1] .
He entered the 2nd detachment and was stationed in Harbin .
In early 1915, according to the Highest Decree, the foot and horse regiments of the Special Zaamur District OKPS were transferred to the South-Western Front , where the 1st and 2nd Zaamur border horse regiments in April were included in the 2nd brigade of the Consolidated Cavalry Division 11th Army .
Already on April 28, 1915, both regiments distinguished themselves in the advance of the 33rd Army Corps on Gorodenki. Immediately attacking the positions of the Austrians north of Gorodenka, the regiments threw back the units and units of the 7th Austro-Hungarian army beyond the river. Rod , chasing them for two days. The regiments suffered heavy losses and were reduced from five hundred to three hundred composition [2] [3] .
On July 19, 1916, German and Austro-Hungarian troops broke through the front of the Russian army at Zlochuv. Due to the lack of reserves in the 11th army, the 1st Zaamur border cavalry regiment (with the support of the Arkhangelsk Dragoons and part of the 2nd Zaamur cavalry regiment) was authorized to close the gap. The regiment in an equestrian counterattack the advancing enemy. Three squadrons hit in the forehead, and three from the left flank. The regiment died almost completely, but the enemy was stopped [4] .
On June 13, 1917, the regiment carried out a successful horse attack at the town of Schweikovtsy.
In early December 1917, four officers of the regiment became part of the 1st Cavalry Division of the Volunteer Army formed in Rostov.
Differences
In all hundreds of insignia arr. 1878 from brass “For distinguishing the war with Japan in 1904 and 1905”, granted on June 9, 1907 to the 13th, 42nd, 43rd, 48th, 3rd and 8th horse-drawn hundreds of the Zaamur border counties.
Commanders
- 03/21/1914-xx.xx.1915 - Colonel Kolzakov, Pyotr Nikolaevich
- Colonel of the General Staff Moravitsky, Konstantin Alexandrovich
- Colonel Moscitsky, Boleslav-Eusebiy Ludwigovich
Notes
- ↑ 13th hundred became 1st; 42nd - 2nd; 43rd - 3rd; 48th - 4th; 3rd - 5th; 8th - 6th
- ↑ Chernyavskaya E.V. Zaamurtsy in military operations on the South-Western Front of the First World War
- ↑ For this attack, the personnel of both regiments received a distinction: officers - a golden hussar gal for bloomers (1- vertex width "hussar zigzag", established by order of the military department No. 446 in 1911), and the lower ranks - an orange basson (half-peak width approved by order of the military department No. 100 in 1909).
- ↑ Oskin, M.V. Brusilovsky breakthrough