2nd Combined Cossack Division explained

Unit Name:	2nd Combined Cossack Division
Branch:	Imperial Russian Army
Garrison:	Kamenets-Podolsk
Dates:	1889–1918
Battles:	World War I

The 2nd Combined Cossack Division (Russian: 2-я Сводная казачья дивизия) was a Cossack division in the Russian Imperial Army formed from Don, Kuban, and Terek Cossacks. Before the war it was part of the 12th Army Corps in the Kiev Military District. The division saw action in World War I and was demobilized in 1918.

Order of battle in 1914

The division consisted of the following units:^{[1] [2]}

• 1st Brigade (HQ Mogilev-Podolsk)
  • 16th Don Cossack Regiment
  • 17th Don Cossack Regiment
• 2nd Brigade (HQ Kamenets-Podolsk)
  • 1st Kuban Cossack Line Regiment
  • 1st Terek Cossack Volgsky Regiment
• 1st Orenburg Cossack Horse Artillery Division (HQ Kamenets-Podolsk)
  • 1st Orenburg Cossack Horse Artillery Battery
  • 3rd Orenburg Cossack Horse Artillery Battery

Commanders

The following is the list of the division commanders.

• • • • 28.07.1899 – 14.09.1904 – Major General (later Lieutenant General) Alexei Domontovich 14.10.1906 – xx.11.1907 – Major General (later Lieutenant General) Mikhail Stoyanov 19.11.1907 – 14.09.1911 – Lieutenant General Nikolai Avdeyev 14.09.1911 – 31.12.1913 – Lieutenant General Alexei Rodionov
  • 31.12.1913 – 24.09.1914 – Lieutenant General Leonid Zhigalin 24.09.1914 – 10.09.1915 – Lieutenant General Alexander Pavlov
  • 16.09.1915 – 10.06.1917 – Major General Pyotr Krasnov 26.09.1917 – ? – Major General Alexander Cheryachukin

Chiefs of Staff

The following is a list of the division chiefs of staff.

• • • • • • • • • • • 15.09.1889-02.08.1891 — Colonel Dmitry Voronets 15.11.1894-30.12.1899 — Colonel Pavel Parchevsky 22.02.1900-25.05.1900 — Colonel Ivan Tolmachev 25.07.1900-09.02.1902 — Colonel Vladimir Khitrovo 16.02.1902-06.03.1905 — Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Mikhail Shishkevich 25.03.1905-09.07.1908 — Colonel Ivan Bolotov 25.08.1908-02.09.1910 — Colonel Anatoly Kalishevsky 12.09.1910-30.12.1914 — Colonel Andrei Snesarev ?-26.07.1915 — Colonel Vladimir Agapeyev 16.08.1915-21.03.1917 — Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Svyatoslav Denisov 16.05.1917-? — Nikolai Rot

External links

• 2-я Сводная казачья дивизия на Regiment.ru

Notes and References

1. http://ria1914.info/index.php?title=2-%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%8C%D1%8F_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%8F 2-я казачья сводная дивизия
2. Book: General Staff, War Office . 1914 . Handbook of the Russian Army . Imperial War Museum . London . 0-89839-250-0 . 168 .