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==Early life and career==
Issa Pliyev started his military career in the [[Red Army]] in 1922, graduating from the Leningrad [[Cavalry]] school in 1926, from the [[Frunze Military Academy]] in 1933 and from the [[Soviet General Staff Academy]]. He joined the Communist party in 1926.<ref name=r149/>

Upon graduation from the Red Army [[Frunze Military Academy]] he was appointed head of the operational department for the headquarters of the 5th Stavropol Cavalry Division named after M. F. Blinov in the Ukrainian Military District. Since June 1936 he was an instructor at the staff of the Joint Military School of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army in Ulaanbaatar. Since February 1939, he commanded the 48th Cavalry Regiment of the 6th Cavalry Division of the Belarusian Special Military District. At the head of the regiment, he took part in the campaign of the Red Army in Western Belarus in September 1939.