Cossack Brigade
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Cossack Brigade can refer to:
- a military brigadeBrigadeA brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of two to five battalions, plus supporting elements depending on the era and nationality of a given army and could be perceived as an enlarged/reinforced regiment...
composed of CossackCossackCossacks are a group of predominantly East Slavic people who originally were members of democratic, semi-military communities in what is today Ukraine and Southern Russia inhabiting sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper and Don basins and who played an important role in the...
s - Free Cossack Brigade of Vadim YakovlevVadim YakovlevVadim Yakovlev was a Russian Cossack cavalry commander, in the rank of yesaul.A veteran of the World War I, during the Russian Civil War he commanded a Cossack brigade in the ranks of Gen. Anton Denikin's White Russian army in Ukraine...
- Persian Cossack BrigadePersian Cossack BrigadeThe Persian Cossack Brigade was an elite cavalry unit formed in 1879 in Iran. During much of their history they were the only functional, effective military unit of the Qajar Dynasty...
of Vsevolod Lyakhov (also known as Iranian Cossack Brigade)