page_title: Issa Pliyev
section_title: Books authored
hierarchical_section_title: Issa Pliyev / Books authored
caption_attribution_description: English: Issa Pliev
context_page_description: Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev was a Soviet military commander, Pliyev would rise to become the premier cavalry general of the Soviet Army. He became Army General, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic.
  During World War II, Pliyev commanded several mechanized cavalry units, ranging from regiments to army corps. 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.
context_section_description: Плиев И.А.. Через Гоби и Хинган (Through the Gobi Desert and the Khingan Mountains). 1965.
  Плиев И.А.. Конец Квантунской армии (The End of the Kwantung Army). 1969
caption: Pliyev on a 2010 stamp of Abkhazia
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