1st Cavalry Army

1st Cavalry Army
Active17 November 1919-11 October 1923
CountryRussian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Russian SFSR (1919–1922)
Soviet Union Soviet Union (1922–1923)
TypeCavalry
SizeEarly 1920:[a]


15,000 cavalry
238 machine guns
19 field guns
8 armoured trains[1]

April 1920:
16,700 cavalry
'A large number of tachankas'
45 field guns
8 armoured cars
5/8 armoured trains


12/15 aircraft[2][3][4]
PatronJoseph Stalin
EngagementsRussian Civil War:


Kharkov (24 November - 12
December 1919)
Donbas (18 - 31 December 1919)
Rostov-Novocherkassk ( 3 - 10
January 1920)
Don-Manych (17 January - 6
February 1920)
Tikhoretskaya (14 February - 2
March 1920)
Kuban-Novorossiysk (3 - 27
March 1920)

Polish-Soviet War:
Kyiv (26 May - 17 June 1920)
Novograd-Volyn (19 - 27 June
1920)[5]
Rivne ( 28 June - 11 July 1920)
Lviv (23 July - 20 August 1920)
Zamosc (29 - 30 August 1920)
Komarow (31 August 1920)
Dytyatyn (16 September 1920)
Russian Civil War:


(Incomplete list)
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Semyon Budyonny

The 1st Cavalry Army (Russian: Первая конная армия, romanized: Pervaya konnaya armiya), or Konarmia (Кона́рмия, "Horsearmy"), was a prominent Red Army military formation that served in the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War.


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  1. ^ Smele 2015, p. 414
  2. ^ Beevor 2022, p. 454
  3. ^ Bullock 2006, p. 11
  4. ^ Smele 2015, p. 93
  5. ^ Dvoinykh, Kariaeva & Stegantsev 1991, p. 284