Issa Pliyev
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Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev was a Soviet military commander. Pliyev rose to become the premier cavalry general of the Soviet Army. He became an Army General, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the
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Pliyev (left) and Lev Dovator (right), Moscow Oblast, November 1941
Lev Dovator
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Lev Mikhaylovich Dovator was a famous Soviet major general who was killed in action during World War II and posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
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…Smolensk, under the command of Dovator. His unit participated in the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad. Pliyev served as 2nd in command under Lev Dovator who fought alongside Rokossovsky with the crucial 16th Army, holding the center defensive line of Moscow. In Soviet Union and Russia 28 Panfilov's men…
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Lev Dovator (upper left) on the Soviet stamp published during the war. The text says "Death to German occupiers!"
Guards Major General L.M. Dovator with his cavalrymen