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2nd Combined Cossack Division
2nd Combined Cossack Division
Active	1889–1918
Allegiance	Russian Empire
Branch	Imperial Russian Army
Garrison/HQ	Kamenets-Podolsk
Engagements	World War I

The 2nd Combined Cossack Division (Russian: 2-я Сводная казачья дивизия) was a Cossack division in the Russian Imperial Army formed from Don, Kuban, and Terek Cossacks. Before the war it was part of the 12th Army Corps in the Kiev Military District. The division saw action in World War I and was demobilized in 1918.

Order of battle in 1914

The division consisted of the following units:^[1]^[2]

1st Brigade (HQ Mogilev-Podolsk)
- 16th Don Cossack Regiment
- 17th Don Cossack Regiment
2nd Brigade (HQ Kamenets-Podolsk)
- 1st Kuban Cossack Line Regiment
- 1st Terek Cossack Volgsky Regiment
1st Orenburg Cossack Horse Artillery Division (HQ Kamenets-Podolsk)
- 1st Orenburg Cossack Horse Artillery Battery
- 3rd Orenburg Cossack Horse Artillery Battery

The following is the list of the division commanders.^[1]

28.07.1899 – 14.09.1904 – Major General (later Lieutenant General) Alexei Domontovich
14.10.1906 – xx.11.1907 – Major General (later Lieutenant General) Mikhail Stoyanov
19.11.1907 – 14.09.1911 – Lieutenant General Nikolai Avdeyev
14.09.1911 – 31.12.1913 – Lieutenant General Alexei Rodionov
31.12.1913 – 24.09.1914 – Lieutenant General Leonid Zhigalin
24.09.1914 – 10.09.1915 – Lieutenant General Alexander Pavlov
16.09.1915 – 10.06.1917 – Major General Pyotr Krasnov
26.09.1917 – ? – Major General Alexander Cheryachukin

The following is a list of the division chiefs of staff.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c 2-я казачья сводная дивизия. Ria1914.info. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
^ General Staff, War Office (1914). Handbook of the Russian Army. London: Imperial War Museum. p. 168. ISBN 0-89839-250-0.