Background
GORODOVIKOV, Oka was born on September 12, 1879 in village Mokraya El’muta, now Rostov Oblast. Son of a Kalmyk peasant.
GORODOVIKOV, Oka was born on September 12, 1879 in village Mokraya El’muta, now Rostov Oblast. Son of a Kalmyk peasant.
1923 graduate Higher Academy Courses. 1932 graduate special faculty, Frunze Military Academy.
1903 drafted for military service with 9th Don Cossack Regt. From 1904 junior warrant officer. 1905 helped to put down rcvol movement in Poland.
1908-1914 farm worker. 1914-1916 served on Southwestern Front. 1916-1917 part of a Cossack detachment guarding a factory and mines near village Sulin, Don Oblast.
Late 1917 joined Red Guard detachment. From 1918 in Red Army. Commander, cavalry squadron, Budyonnyy’s Cavalry Regt.
Brigade commander, then commander, 6th Cavalry Division, Budyonnyy’s 1st Cavalry Army. Commander, 2nd Cavalry Army. Commander, 6th Cavalry Division, which broke through the Chongar fortifications during tbe storming of Pcrekop.
1921-1929 commander of a cavalry div. Inspector of cavalry, North Caucasian Military district. Then commander and comissar, 1st Cavalry Corps.
1932-1938 deputy commander, Ccntr Asian Military district. 1938-1945 inspector of cavalry, Red Army. 1941-1945 supervised formation of cavalry units.
Headquarters representative overseeing cavalry raids behind enemy lines. Coordinated cavalry operations during battle of Stalingrad. 1945-1947 Deputy Commander of Cavalry, Soviet Army.
From 1947 in retirement. 1937 deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet.
Communist Party member from 1919.