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5th Guards Cavalry Division (Bessarabian–Tannenberg, Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov)
ActiveDecember 25, 1941–1946
DisbandedPredecessor: 3rd Cavalry Division
Successor: 5th Guards Cavalry Regiment
AllegianceArmed Forces of the Soviet Union
BranchLand
TypeCavalry
Nickname(s)"Bessarabian"
"Tannenberg"
EngagementsGreat Patriotic War
Battle honoursSoviet Guard
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner
Order of Suvorov
Southwestern Front. Machine gunner of the 20th Guards Cavalry Regiment, Red Army soldier Georgy Zlomanov, is firing at the plane from the Degtyarev Infantry Light Machine Gun. 1942. Photo by Mikhail Bernstein

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.

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