1st Cavalry Army

1st Cavalry Army
Active17 November 1919–11 October 1923
Country Russian SFSR (1919–1922)
Soviet Union (1922–1923)
TypeCavalry
SizeEarly 1920:


15,000 cavalry
238 machine guns
19 field guns
8 armoured trains

April 1920:
16,700 cavalry
'A large number of tachankas'
45 field guns
8 armoured cars
5/8 armoured trains


12/15 aircraft
PatronJoseph Stalin
EngagementsRussian Civil War:


Kharkov (24 November – 12
December 1919)
Donbas (18–31 December 1919)
Rostov-Novocherkassk (3–10
January 1920)
Don-Manych (17 January – 6
February 1920)
Tikhoretskaya (14 February – 2
March 1920)
Kuban-Novorossiysk (3–27
March 1920)

Polish-Soviet War:
Kyiv (26 May – 17 June 1920)
Novograd-Volyn (19–27 June
1920)
Rivne ( 28 June – 11 July 1920)
Lviv (23 July – 20 August 1920)
Zamosc (29–30 August 1920)
Komarow (31 August 1920)
Dytyatyn (16 September 1920)
Russian Civil War:


(Incomplete list)
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Semyon Budyonny

The 1st Cavalry Army (Russian: Первая конная армия, romanized: Pervaya konnaya armiya), or Konarmia (Кона́рмия, "Horsearmy"), was a prominent Red Army military formation that served in the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War.