Vasili Morozov

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Vasily Ivanovich Morozov, Russian Василий Иванович Морозов (born 30 March 1888 in Samikarakorskaya, Russia, died on 30 January 1950 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee) - Russian military general (major general), commander of the Cossack Cossack and then a Cossack Cavalry Regiment in the Russian Corps of Defense during World War II.

In 1908 he graduated from the military school in Novosibirsk. Served in the 7th Cavalry regiment of the Kozaki dońskich. He participated in the First World War. Until 1917, he commanded a sotnium in the 58th Cavalry regiment of the Kozaki dońskich. In 1918 he joined the Cossack troops of the White Army. Since June, he has been the commander of the 76th Cavalry Regiment of the Kozaki Dockers, and then the 2nd Independent Cavalry Brigade of the Kozakans. In November 1919 he was elected an ataman and promoted to the rank of colonel. In April 1920, he took command of the 2nd mixed cavalry division of the Kozaki Drones, from September of that year to the rank of Major General. After evacuating from Crimea to Gallipoli in November, he stayed on the island of Lemnos, then in 1921 he settled in Bulgaria. During the Second World War he cooperated with Germans. After the occupation of Yugoslavia by the German army he joined the newly formed Russian Protective Corps at the end of 1941. He became the commander of the Cossack regiment in the 4th Regiment. The corps performed protective and guard duties in the area of ​​occupied Serbia, and from the spring of 1944 he was in direct combat with the communist insurgent Josip Broz Tita. In October of this year, General I. Morozov took command of the 1st Cossack Cavalry Regiment leading the retreat. On May 12, 1945, in the Klagenfurt am Wörthersee area, he surrendered to the British regiment and was imprisoned in Kellerberg. He avoided repatriation to the USSR. He lived in Austria where he died on January 30, 1950.

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