2nd Combined Cossack Division

2nd Combined Cossack Division
Active	1889–1918
Allegiance	Russian Empire
Branch	Imperial Russian Army
Garrison/HQ	Kamenets-Podolsk
Engagements	World War I

Military unit

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:

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

References

^ 2-я казачья сводная дивизия. Ria1914.info. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
General Staff, War Office (1914). Handbook of the Russian Army. London: Imperial War Museum. p. 168. ISBN 0-89839-250-0.

External links

2-я Сводная казачья дивизия на Regiment.ru

Russian Imperial Army divisions in World War I

Infantry

Guards	1 2 3

1st – 9th	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10th – 19th	10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20th – 29th	20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

30th – 39th	30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

40th – 49th	40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49

50th – 52nd	50 51 52

1914 July

53rd – 59th	53 54 55 56 57 58 59

60th – 69th	60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69

70th – 79th	70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79

80th – 84th	80 81 82 83 84

1915

June

99th – 109th	99 • 100 • 101 • 102 • 103 • 104 • 105 • 106 • 107 • 108 • 109

110th – 119th	110 • 111 • 112 • 113 • 114 • 115 • 116 • 117 • 118 • 119

120th – 124th	120 • 121 • 122 • 123 • 124

September	125

November	126 • 127

1916

October	128

November	129 • 130 • 131 • 132 • 133 • 134 • 135 • 136 • 137 • 138

1917

January

151st – 159th	151 • 152 • 153 • 154 • 155 • 156 • 157 • 158 • 159

160th – 169th	160 • 161 • 162 • 163 • 164 • 165 • 166 • 167 • 168 • 169

170th – 179th	170 • 171 • 172 • 173 • 174 • 175 • 176 • 177 • 178 • 179

180th – 189th	180 • 181 • 182 • 183 • 184 • 185 • 186 • 187 • 188 • 189

190th – 194th	190 • 191 • 192 • 193 • 194

Grenadier

January 1917: 5 • 6 • 2nd Caucasus

Siberian Rifle

1st – 15th	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

November 1916	16 • 17

January 1917	Combined • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22

Finland Rifle

May 1915	1 2 3 4

January 1917	5 6

Cavalry

Guards	1 2

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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Caucasus

December 1914: 16

Cossack

Caucasus	1 2 3 Native Cavalry

Volunteer

1st Serbian • Czechoslovak

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