Editing Lev Dovator (section)

==Battle of Moscow==
[[File:Гвардии генерал-майор Л.М. Доватор со своими кавалеристами.jpg|thumb|Guards Major General L.M. Dovator with his cavalrymen]]
On November 20, his unit became the 3rd Cavalry Corps due to its enormous battlefield success. On 27 November, however, it was renamed the [[2nd Guards Cavalry Corps]]. During the [[Battle of Moscow]], Dovator was the commander of 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps, which fended off the enemy advance at [[Volokolamsk]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-BFyAAAAIAAJ|title=Вторая Мировая война, 1939-1945: очерк важнейших событий|last=Samsonov|first=Aleksandr|date=1990|publisher=Nauka|isbn=5020085243|location=Moscow|pages=217|language=ru|oclc=25788005}}</ref>

He was killed in an offensive action on 19 December 1941, near the outskirts of [[Ruza, Ruzsky District, Moscow Oblast|Ruza]].  He was reportedly cut down by machine-gun fire while crawling towards a forward position to get a better look near the village of Palashkino.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

Dovator was posthumously awarded the title [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]<ref name=GeorgyZhukov>{{Cite book |last=Zhukov |first=Georgy |title=Marshal of Victory, Volume II |publisher=Pen and Sword Books Ltd. |year=1974 |isbn=9781781592915 |page=50}}</ref> two days afterwards, as well as the [[Order of Lenin]]. He was replaced in command by Major General [[Issa Pliyev]].<ref>{{Cite book|title = Moscow 1941: A City & Its People at War|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aChpsFvALowC|publisher = Profile Books|date = 2010-12-09|isbn = 978-1847650627|language = en|first = Rodric|last = Braithwaite}}</ref> Lev Dovator is buried alongside [[Ivan Panfilov]], as they fought together to stop the [[9th Army (Wehrmacht)]] from reaching Moscow.