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.
Лев Михайлович Доватор
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
Kuban Cossacks
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Kuban Cossacks or Kubanians are Cossacks who live in the Kuban region of Russia. Most of the Kuban Cossacks are descendants of different major groups of Cossacks who were re-settled to the western Nor
Lev Dovator
…a cavalry group consisting of the 50th and 53rd Cavalry Divisions. General Lev Dovator's 50th and 53rd Cavalry Divisions were raised exclusively from Kuban Cossacks. Despite his Jewish heritage, unique with the Cossacks, they accepted Dovator as one of their own and considered him a great leader, superb horseman…
Kuban Cossacks in 1861.
A memorial to the first settlers in Taman
Cossack reconnaissance during the Caucasus wars, by Franz Roubaud
Late 19th century