It was a prewar division assigned to the Transcaucasus Military District on 22 June 1941.
[2] Kombrig Pyotr Antonov commanded the division from its formation until his arrest in January 1938 during the Great Purge; he was replaced in June of that year by Kombrig Pyotr Akhlyustin, who commanded the division until March 1941.
Timoshenko Cavalry Division (Russian: 24-я кавалерийская дивизия имени С. К.
[3] Assigned as an independent division in the Transcaucasus Military District when the war began.
The division first went into action with the Kalinin Front's 30th Army north and west of Moscow.