The First Cavalry Army in the Civil War (1918-1920)

Parade of the First Cavalry Army.

Army Commander S. M. Budyonny, sitting in the saddle, delivers a speech to the soldiers.

The Red Cavalry moves through the city streets.

Horse and foot units of the Red Army move through the city streets.

Parade of the Red Army units.

Commanders of the First Cavalry Army units in the saddle.

A rifle unit passes.

A captured armored car pulled by a camel passes. S. M. Budyonny and K. E. Voroshilov, sitting on horseback, salute the passing troops.

Red Army soldiers of the rifle units pass with rifles slung over their shoulders.

Commanders in the saddles during the parade.

A commissar, sitting on horseback, delivers a speech to the unit commanders.

Units of the First Cavalry Army at formation in the Tauride Steppes in 1920. An army convoy at the parade.

Columns of earth from exploding shells.

The Red Cavalry gallops into the attack.

Ordzhonikidze G.K. salutes the troops during the parade in 1920. Kirov S.M. at the entrance to the building in 1918. The entry of the Red Army into Baku in the autumn of 1920. Units of the Red Cavalry on the march.

A machine-gun crew takes up a position in the steppe.

The barrel of a machine gun firing.

Combat operations.

Red Army soldiers fire their rifles from a prone position.

A machine-gun crew fires.

The attack of the Red Cavalry.

The Red Cavalry crosses a water obstacle along a pontoon wooden bridge built by sappers, fording a river.

A cavalry platoon after crossing the river.

The attack of the Red Cavalry in Crimea.

A unit of the Red Cavalry enters the pontoon bridge.

Voroshilov and Budyonny observe the crossing.

Red Army soldiers in captured dugouts at Perekop.