Editing Andrei Grechko (section)

==Early military career==
[[File:Andrei_Grechko_1.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Grechko as a soldier in the [[Red Army]]]]
He joined the [[Red Army]] in 1919, where he was a part of the [[1st Cavalry Army]]. During the war, he fought in the [[Caucasian Front (RSFSR)|Caucasian Front]] and [[Southern Front (RSFSR)|Southern Front]], where fought in battles against the [[White Army]] troops of Generals 
[[Anton Denikin]] and [[Pyotr Wrangel]], and detachments of Ataman [[Nestor Makhno]], and the elimination of political and criminal banditry.<ref name=":2"/>

From September 1921 to July 1922, he served in a separate battalion of [[OSNAZ]] in [[Taganrog]]. He studied at the [[Crimean]] Cavalry courses Named After the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, in which he graduated in August 1923. After graduation, he was sent to study at the Taganrog Cavalry School of the [[North Caucasian Military District]] and in August 1924, he was transferred to the North Caucasian Mountain Nationalities Cavalry School in [[Krasnodar]]. During his studies, he was a foreman of a squadron and from 1925 to 1926, he participated in military operations against gang formations in [[Chechnya]] and [[Dagestan]]. He graduated in 1926 and became a member of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].<ref name=":2"/>

From September 1926 to April 1932, he served in the 61st Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Separate Cavalry Brigade at the [[Moscow Military District]], and platoon and machine-gun squadron commander.<ref name=":2"/>

Grechko graduated from the [[Frunze Military Academy|Military Academy of the Red Army named after M. V. Frunze]] in 1936. After graduation, he served in the Special Red Banner Cavalry Division named after [[Joseph Stalin|I.V. Stalin]] of the Moscow Military District and later transferred to the [[Belarusian Military District|Belarusian Special Military District]], where he served as assistant chief and chief of the 1st (operational) part of the division headquarters and commander of the 62nd Cavalry Regiment. From May 1938 to October 1938, he served as assistant chief of staff of the division.<ref name=":2"/>

He graduated from the academy of the [[Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia|General Staff of the Red Army named after K. E. Voroshilov]] in June 1941.<ref name=":2"/>