5th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union)

5th Cavalry Corps
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Branch	Soviet Red Army
Engagements	Soviet invasion of Poland; Eastern Front (World War II) Operation Barbarossa; ;

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The 5th Cavalry Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 12th Army. It later became part of the 6th Army. It took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 and the Great Patriotic War.

Organization[]

1939:

9th Cavalry Division
16th Cavalry Division
23rd Independent Tank Brigade

1941:

3rd Cavalry Division
14th Cavalry Division

Commanders[]

Major General F. V. Kamkov

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