30th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union)

It served on the Southern Front and helped push back Axis forces during the Battle of Rostov.

In August 1943 the 30th Cavalry Division was commended by Joseph Stalin for their actions in the liberation of Taganrog and it later operated near Odessa.

The unit received the honorifics "Baranovichi", "Slonim" and "Brest" but was almost destroyed at Nyíregyháza by a German counterattack during the Battle of Debrecen.

[2] Following the June 1941 invasion of the USSR by Nazi Germany the 30th Cavalry Division was reformed in Odessa Military District on 10 July.

[2] The 30th Cavalry Division was reinforced in 1943 with a draft of men forcibly conscripted from the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, though the region met scarcely half of its 3,000-man recruitment target.

[2] In August 1943 the division, which was then commanded by Major General Ivan Tutarinov, was one of a number commended by Joseph Stalin for their actions in the liberation of Taganrog.

In July 1944 it raced to seize Stowbtsy (modern Belarus) ahead of advancing German forces from the 28th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht).