The 10th Guards Budapest Rifle Corps was a unit of the

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during the

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. It traces its history to the 3rd Guards Rifle Corps, originally activated in January 1942, which was redesignated the 10th Guards Rifle Corps on 13 August 1942. By

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Order No. 00169 dated 3 August 1942, the corps began to form. The formation of the corps took place in the first half of August 1942 in the

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area from the previously completed 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Guards Rifle Brigades (later to be expanded into 108th, 109th, and 110th Guards Rifle Divisions). On 13 August 1942, the 3rd Guards Rifle Corps was renamed to the 10th Guards Rifle Corps. It took part in the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive as part of the

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. They also took part in the Budapest Offensive as part of the 46th Army. Later, it became part of the

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. The

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(2nd Formation) was withdrawn to

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(

) with the Corps by spring 1946, where it was reduced to the 37th Separate Rifle Brigade. The latter was soon disbanded in December 1946. In 1948, the 10th Guards Rifle Corps was part of 4th Guards Army, alongside

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and 82nd Rifle Corps. It was made up of 33rd Guards Mechanized Division, 59th Guards RD, and

86th Guards Rifle Division The 86th Guards Rifle Division was reformed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in April 1943, based on the 2nd formation of the 98th Rifle Division, and served in that role until after the end of the Great Patriotic War and well into th ...

s. 86 GRD was still with it in 1955. By the time of its disestablishment it had been assigned the

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No. 69651. The corps was disestablished by being redesignated the

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on 25 November 1956 in Kishinev.

Commanders

Feofan Parkhomenko Feofan Agapovich Parkhomenko (; 24 December 1893 – 7 June 1962) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general. He fought in the Caucasus campaign of World War I and rose from private to ensign in the Imperial Russian Army. Parkhomenko joined the Red Arm ...

(8 August 1942 – 13 August 1942), Guards Major General; *Ivan Terentyevich Zamertsev (13 August 1942 – 11 September 1942), Guards Major General; *Ivan Alexandrovich Sevastyanov (15 September 1942 – 10 November 1942), guard colonel; *

Vasily Glagolev Vasily Vasilyevich Glagolev (; 21 February 1896 – 21 September 1947) was a Red Army Colonel general, Hero of the Soviet Union, and commander of the Soviet airborne (VDV). After initially serving in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, G ...

(11 November 1942 – 11 February 1943), guard colonel, guard major general; *Pavel Gavrilovich Petrov (10 February 1943 – 20 February 1943), Guard Colonel, acting; *

Ivan Rubanyuk Ivan Andreyevich Rubanyuk (; 29 August 1896 – 3 October 1959) was a Soviet colonel general who rose to field army command during the Cold War. World War I and Russian Civil War Ivan Andreyevich Rubanyuk was born on 29 August 1896 in the villag ...

(12 February 1943 – April 1947), Guard Major General, Guard Lieutenant General 0 1 *

Semyon Kozak Semyon Antonovich Kozak (; – 24 December 1953) was a Ukrainian Soviet Army lieutenant general who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his command of a division during World War II. Early life, Russian Civil War, and in ...

(April 1947 – July 1950), Guard Lieutenant General; *Pavel Nikonovich Bibikov (April 1951 – July 1953), Guard Major General; *Efim Vasilievich Ryzhikov (July 1953 – 11 June 1956), Guard Lieutenant General; *Konstantin Fedorovich Mayorov (12 June 1956 – 15 November 1956), Guard Major General.

Commanders

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