1st Guards Cavalry Corps
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1st Guards Cavalry Zhytomyr Red Banner Corps was a military unit of the Soviet Red Army which was renamed from the 2nd Cavalry Corps. Led by Pavel Belov it was involved in several colossal combat oper
Battle of Moscow 2
Soviet Cavalrymen of the 2nd Cavalry Corps receiving the honorary "Guards" title, 26 November 1941
Horsemen of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps riding victoriously during the Moscow Counteroffensive Phase, 22 December 1941
Soviet cavalrymen, presumably soldiers of the corps, entering a liberated town.
1st Ukrainian Front
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The 1st Ukrainian Front, previously the Voronezh Front, was a major formation of the Red Army during World War II, being equivalent to a Western army group. They took part in the capture of Berlin, th
1st Guards Cavalry Corps
…surpassing the besieged 62nd Army (Soviet Union) at Stalingrad. By the second half of the war, the cavalrymen who often spearheaded the front of the 1st Ukrainian Front were able to make even more significant breakthroughs behind enemy lines using the advanced Cavalry mechanized group, which resulted in a faster enemy…
Alexander Pokryshkin (center) carrying the standard of the 1st Ukrainian Front at the 1945 Moscow Victory Parade.
1st Ukrainian Front Standard for Victory Parade - at the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow
Russia Lt Charles Thau (center) behind the handshake, 25 April 1945