1st Mountain Cavalry Division (Soviet Union)
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| type = Cavalry
| role = Cavalry Support and Attack
| size = Division
| command_structure = Transcaucasus Military District
45th Army
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The 1st Mountain Cavalry Division was a division-sized unit of the Red Army that existed during the Great Patriotic War and during the Allied Invasion of Iran.
History
The 1st Mountain Cavalry Division was formed originally as the "1st Mountain Cavalry Division" in July 1941 and immediately assigned to the 45th Army on the Iranian Border, under the command of Colonel Aleksandr Dmitryevich Alekseyev.{{Cite book |last=Soloviev |first=Denis |title=Командиры дивизий Красной Армии 1921-1941 гг. Том 39}} In August of the same year the division was assigned to the 47th Army and in October as part of the Soviet Occupation Forces in Persia (Transcaucasian Front). In December it was re-designated to the "1st Cavalry Division" and was assigned to the 15th Cavalry Corps. Colonel Aleksi Inauri commanded the division from August 1942 to February 1946.{{Cite web |title=Инаури Алексей Николаевич |url=https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=8791 |access-date=2022-05-27 |website=warheroes.ru}} The division continued to serve as part of the Soviet occupation forces in Iran until the end of the war.{{Cite web|url=http://www.teatrskazka.com/Raznoe/BoevojSostavSA/1942/19421201.html|title=Боевой состав Советской Армии на 1 декабря 1942 г.|website=www.teatrskazka.com|access-date=2019-02-08}} Following the Soviet withdrawal from Iran in spring 1946, the division was disbanded in September of that year with the 15th Cavalry Corps as part of the 4th Army in the Transcaucasian Military District.{{Sfn|Kornilenko|Nikitin|1946|p=1}}
Structure
The division included the following units:{{Cite web |title=Директива Генерального штаба ВС РФ от 02.04.1998 г. № ДГШ-8 |url=http://www.teatrskazka.com/Raznoe/Perechni_voisk/Perechen_DGSh17_02.html#05 |access-date=2022-05-27 |website=www.teatrskazka.com}}
- Headquarters
- 6th Cavalry Regiment
- 9th Cavalry Regiment
- 12th Cavalry Regiment
References
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- {{cite web |last=Kornilenko |last2=Nikitin |year=1946 |title=Перечень |trans-title=List |url=https://cdn.obd-memorial.ru/Image2/filterimage?path=Z/012/033-0594259-0014/00000048.jpg&id=75106595&id=75106595&id1=c687de71890b3f026296495dd4121827 |access-date=20 February 2019 |website=obd-memorial |publisher=Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence |language=ru}}
- {{Cite book |last=Syomin |first=Yu. |url=http://www.soldat.ru/doc/perechen/ |title=Директива № ДГШ-17 от 12.07.1996 г |publisher=General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation |year=1996 |location=Moscow |language=ru |trans-title=Directive No. DGSh-17 of 12 July 1996}}