In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Budyonnyy.
Semyon Budyonny
Budyonny in 1943
Birth name
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonnyy
Born
(1883-04-25)25 April 1883 Platovskaya, Don Host Oblast, Imperial Russia (present dayProletarsky Raion, Rostov Oblast, Russia)
Died
26 October 1973(1973-10-26) (aged 90) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Buried
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Allegiance
Imperial Russia (1903–1917) Russian SFSR (1917–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1954)
Service/branch
Imperial Russian Army Red Army Soviet Army
Years of service
1903–1954
Rank
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1935–1954)
Commands held
1st Cavalry Army Moscow Military District Southwestern Direction
Southern Front
Southwestern Front
Reserve Front North Caucasus Front
Battles/wars
Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War Polish-Soviet War World War II
Battle of Uman
Battle of Kiev
Awards
Hero of the Soviet Union (three times) Cross of St. George, 1st–4th Classes
Other work
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1919–1973)
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny[1] (Russian: Семён Миха́йлович Будённый, tr. Semyon Mikháylovich Budyonnyy, IPA:[sʲɪˈmʲɵnmʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑbʊˈdʲɵnːɨj]ⓘ; 25 April [O.S. 13 April] 1883 – 26 October 1973) was a Soviet cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Born to a poor peasant family from the Don Cossack region in southern Russia, Budyonny was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1903. He served with distinction in a dragoon regiment during the First World War, earning all four classes of the Cross of St. George. When the Russian Civil War broke out Budyonny founded the Red Cavalry, which played an important role in the Bolshevik victory; Budyonny became renowned for his bravery and was the subject of several popular patriotic songs. In 1922 he also became commander of all the troops in the north Caucasian military district. While serving as inspector of the Red Army's cavalry (1924–37) and commander of the Moscow military district (1937–40). As a political ally of Joseph Stalin, he became one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union. He was one of the two most senior army commanders that survived the Great Purge and in post at the time of German invasion of the USSR in 1941. After the Soviet forces under Budyonny's command were routed in the battles of Kiev and Uman, he was removed from frontline command. He received the blame for many of Stalin's military strategic errors in the early part of World War II, but he was retained in the Soviet high command. In 1953 he resumed his post of inspector of the cavalry.
Budyonny was a staunch proponent of horse cavalry. During the Great Purge, he testified against Mikhail Tukhachevsky's efforts to create an independent tank corps, claiming that it was so inferior to cavalry and illogical that it amounted to "wrecking" (sabotage). After being told of the importance of the tank in the coming war in 1939, he remarked, "You won't convince me. As soon as war is declared, everyone will shout, 'Send for the Cavalry!'"[2]
^Also transliterated as Budennyj, Budyonnyy, Budennii, Budyoni, Budyenny, or Budenny.
^Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), p. 331.
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Global Information
Platovskaya, Don Host Oblast, Imperial Russia 
Proletarsky Raion, Rostov Oblast, Russia)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Imperial Russia (1903–1917) 
Russian SFSR (1917–1922) 
Soviet Union (1922–1954)
Imperial Russian Army 
Red Army 
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1935–1954)
Hero of the Soviet Union (three times) 
Cross of St. George, 1st–4th Classes