About the book: 1946 / Brief overview of the military path of the corps and party political work, ensured combat operations, generalization of combat experience and party political work for four years of war. The review was compiled on the basis of political reports, documents summarizing the party-political work and combat actions of the corps at individual stages of battles, protocols of party organizations of the Corps Directorate, archives of the corps newspaper “Horse Guards” and stories of privates and officers serving in the corps from the first days of the war. Original: https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ From the compiler fb2: When reading this document, it is necessary to remember that the purpose of such reviews was to exalt the role of the party political organs of the Red Army in achieving Victory over fascist Germany. And although they were classified as secret, their style clearly served as a model for the creation of memoirs of Soviet military leaders. And although the Supreme High Command and the Soviet Government throughout the Patriotic War tried to gradually reduce the influence of political departments on the decision-making of the military command, when reading such documents one clearly feels the heavy tread of the approaching XX-XXII Congresses of the CPSU...Unfortunately, the topic of the document practically excluded the possibility of assessing the combat use of cavalry, which later played its propaganda role. However, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of cavalry in a defensive war - the actions of the 1st Guards. KK was surrounded near Vyazma, where its actions created an entire partisan region. And it is even more difficult to overestimate its importance in the offensive - where cavalry corps and mobile cavalry-mechanized groups captured bridgeheads and held them until the main forces of the Red Army arrived. I would separately note that the inaccuracies I noticed in the descriptions of events do not in any way detract from the feat of the corps fighters, but only talk about the superficial approach of the authors of the document. The original spelling is preserved as much as possible, with the exception of obvious typos. Grinya