Education
He graduated from the Leningrad Cavalry school in 1926, from the Frunze Military Academy in 1933 and from the Soviet General Staff Academy.
He graduated from the Leningrad Cavalry school in 1926, from the Frunze Military Academy in 1933 and from the Soviet General Staff Academy.
During, Pliyev commanded several mechanized cavalry units, ranging from regiments to army corporations The military historians David Glantz and Jonathan House described Pliyev as a "great practitioner of cavalry operations in adverse terrain". Pliyev became known in the West largely for his involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Issa Pliyev started his military career in the Red Army in 1922.
He joined the Communist party in 1926. At the start of the invasion of the Soviet Union, Pliyev commanded the 50th Cavalry Division (renamed 3rd Guards Cavalry Division).
His unit participated in the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad. Pliyev commanded cavalry-mechanized group consisting of 4th Guards Cavalry Corps and 4th Mechanized Corps during the Bereznegovataia-Snigirevka Operation along the Black Sea coast, as part of the 3rd Ukrainian Front under Army General Rodion Malinovsky.
During Operation Bagration in the summer of 1944, part of the 1st Belorussian Front, Pliyev"s cavalry-mechanized group attacked towards Slutsk.
According to Glantz and House, the unit was highly successful in exploiting the operational breakthrough. In the fall of 1943, he commanded a cavalry-mechanized group consisting of two divisions during the Battle of Debrecen. He ended the war in command of the Soviet-Mongolian Cavalry-Mechanized Group of the Transbaikal front in Manchuria, fighting against the Japanese Kwantung Army.
After the war, Pliyev continued his career in the military.
He commanded 13th Army in 1947-1949. In 1955-1958, he was appointed First Deputy and then in 1958 - Commander of the North Caucasus Military District.
In 1962 Pliyev"s troops took part in suppressing Novocherkassk riots. During the Cuban Missile Crisis he was the commander of Group of Soviet forces as part of the Operation Anadyr in Cuba.
In 1968, Pliyev became an advisor for the General Inspectors Group of the Ministry of Defense of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Honours and Soviet Foreign.