Considering his accomplishments from 1941-1945, his adaptation of combining horses, tanks, artillery, and aircraft on a modern battlefield resulted in the victory against a more technologically advanced enemy, often in the most desperate parts of the Eastern Front.

The newly established cavalry corps was pivotal in stopping Guderian's Panzers in 1941 on the southern outposts of Moscow near the town of Kashira.

During the Battle of Rzhev, Belov would lead a successful five-month raid with the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps behind Army Group Center.

Finishing the war in the Battle of Berlin on the Elbe River; his successor of the Corps became Viktor Kirillovich Baranov.

The unit additionally played a rescue role for the many trapped troops in the Battle of Kyiv, which Belov's forces unsuccessfully tried to save.

Stalin called his unit the "Fire Squad," as they were often thrown into the most challenging positions, expecting to save the situation.

Born in Shuya on 18 February 1897 to a working-class family, Pavel Alexeyevich Belov worked at the railway station in Ivanovo-Voznesensk.

[2] After the end of the war, Belov was appointed assistant commander of the 1st Reserve Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Don Rifle Division in June 1921.

After serving as assistant chief of the 4th department of the staff of the district from May 1929, in June 1931 Belov became an officer for special assignments under Semyon Budyonny, who was then a member of the Revolutionary Military Council.

[citation needed] During the October 1941 German offensive towards Moscow, Army Group Center was stuck in the rasputitsa.

These muddy periods are of particular interest because they enhanced the operations of the Belov's cavalry as it defeated the bogged down German 25th Motorized Division in September 1941.

By late October, after fighting on the flanks of the German assault at Orel and Tula, the 2nd Cavalry Corps was withdrawn from the line and send into Stavka Reserve to be rebuilt.

On the eve of the Moscow counter-offensive, Belov made a personal appeal, with Marshal Zhukov's support, directly to Stalin for the rearmament of his corps.

Guderian's penetration had culminated by forming a salient north-east of Tula, threatening the towns of Kashira and Riazan.

At the same time, the mobile group Belov with cavalry, tanks, katyusha rockets, airborne units, and additional rifle troops began the offensive.

By 5 December, Guderian's armored assault had halted against the stubborn defenses of Belov's 1st Guards Cavalry Corps outside of Kashira.

In the documentary "Moscow Strikes Back", Pavel Belov and the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps are given significant attention for their heroic actions.

Belov's 1st Guards Cavalry Corps, along with the 33rd Army, controlled a pocket from south of Smolensk-Vyazma in size of 2 500 km2/1 553 mile² area.

On June 16, General Halder wrote in his operations diary: "Cav Corps Belov has again broken out and is moving in the direction of Kirov.

"The episode caused many humorous remarks at the time and the motorized troops which had taken part in the operations became the butt of those jokes.

Belov recognized this reality early on when his men emerged from the forest and their first probing attacks against the hastily erected German defenses were repulsed.

His request to bypass these defenses to the west and in conjunction with the 11th cavalry Corps to cut the railroad feeding the city was denied by Marshall Zhukov.

At this point in the battle, the Raiders had the capacity to reach the road and cut the 4th Army's main supply in line.

[3] However, due to the lack of coordination between the Western Front's attack and Belov, the Germans managed to create an operational reserve from the infantry and Panzer forces.

While the raid was not an unqualified success, it did disrupt the German war plan at the operational level between February and July 1942.

Horse Artillery was often unable to keep pace with the cavalry due to extreme winter weather conditions.