Red Cossacks

Red Cossacks
Червоне Козацтво
Active	1918 – 1939
Country	Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, Ukrainian Soviet Republic and Ukrainian SSR
Allegiance	Russian SFSR
Branch	Red Army (RKKA)
Type	Cavalry
Size	Division, Corps (originally as regiment)
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner (1928), Order of Lenin (1934)
Commanders
Notable commanders	Vitaly Primakov

The Red Cossacks (Ukrainian: Червоне козацтво, romanized: Chervone kozatstvo, Russian: Червонное казачество, romanized: Chervonnoye kazachestvo), also sometimes called Bright Cossacks, Fine Cossacks (Ukrainian: Красне козацтво) - military and paramilitary (political) formation (Corps) of the Bolsheviks and the Soviet government of Ukraine, also known collectively in some documents of its own epoch along with other military formations, which supported creation and took part in defence and development of Ukrainian Republic, New, Modern Ukraine of that time (“Res Bublica”) as Insurgent Army (UIA), Ukrainian Army (AFU) and Red Army Red Cossacks was a collective name for one of the biggest cavalry formations of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA) and was part of the Ukrainian, Southern, and Southwestern fronts during the Russian Civil War and later was stationed in the Ukrainian SSR.

According to Vitaly Primakov, the formation was created in protection of the Soviet government in Ukraine, the liquidation of the "nationalistic and counter-revolutionary" Central Council of Ukraine and as an opposing force to the Central Council's armed forces known as the "Free Cossacks".