Crimean Tatar Cavalry Troops in the Russian Army 1806-1920

Abstract

the Russian administration produced various policies to be permanent in the region. One of these practices was to establish cavalry units of Crimean Tatar soldiers using mirzas. These regiments were established, closed and re-established several times between 1784 and 1920 under different names, different numbers and for different tasks. The regiment performed its last important mission during the First World War. The regiment, which was sent to the front in the First World War, returned to Simferopol on November 11, 1917, with the collapse of the tsardom before the war ended, and entered under the command of the Crimean Tatar Congress and its name was changed tothe First Crimean Tatar Regiment. This unit was the only military force held by the Crimean Tatars. The Tatars could not hold on to the attacks of the Bolsheviks in the civil war due to their insufficient number, and the Crimean Tatar Regiment actually ended in 1918.