5th Guards Cavalry Division

The 5th Guards Cavalry Division (Bessarabian–Tannenberg, Order of Lenin, Grigory Kotovsky, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov) was a military unit in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Armed Forces) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the Great Patriotic War.

In the battle near this city, the submachine gunner, Private Pyotr Dernov, repeated the feat of Matrosov, covering the enemy machine gun with his body, which interfered with the advance of the squadron.

Dernov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and forever enlisted in the lists of the 4th Squadron of the 24th Guards Cavalry Regiment.

During World War II, over 10,000 soldiers of the division were decorated, of which three were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

After the end of the war, the division and the 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps became part of the Northern Group of Forces at Lublin, but soon withdrew to Izyaslav in the Carpathian Military District.