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Semyon Mikhaylovich Budenny, (born April 13 [April 25, New Style], 1883, Kozyurin, near Rostov-na-Donu, Russia—died Oct. 17, 1973, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Red Army officer who played a prominent role in the Russian Civil War (1918–20) and later became a marshal of the Soviet Union.

History. When the Russian Civil War broke out in 1918, former non-commissioned officer Semyon Budyonny organized a small cavalry force in the Don region out of local Cossacks. This force rapidly grew in numbers, sided with the Bolsheviks and eventually became the 1st Cavalry Army.

Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny was a Soviet cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

The Budyonny was named after Marshal Semyon Budyonny, a Bolshevik cavalry commander who became famous during the Russian Revolution. The breed was created by Budyonny, a well-known horse breeder himself, in the early 1920s in the Rostov region of Russia with the intent of producing cavalry horses to replace those lost during and after World War I.

Budyonny was now trapped and soon relieved by Joseph Stalin's order of 13 September, and Budyonny was replaced by Semyon Timoshenko, in command of the Southwestern Direction. After that, the fate of the encircled Soviet armies was sealed.