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The 13th Guards Army Corps was a
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of the
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, formed from the previous 13th Guards Rifle Corps, which saw service during the
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World War II

The 13th Guards Rifle Corps was formed from 30 October to 15 November 1942 in Ranenburg,
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, under the command of Major General
Porfiry Chanchibadze Porfiry Georgiyevich Chanchibadze ( ka, პორფილე ჩანჩიბაძე, ); 13 December 1901 - 14 March 1950) was a Soviet Colonel General and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Biography Chanchibadze was born in Ozurgeti. He partici ...
. The corps received its
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in December 1942 during the
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. It was part of
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on 1 December 1942.
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(BSSA)
On 1 February 1943, still with 2nd Guards Army, the corps consisted of the 3rd Guards, 49th Guards, and 387th Rifle Divisions. By 1 December 1943, the
295th Rifle Division The 295th Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army and later the Soviet Army, formed twice. The 295th's first formation was formed in the summer of 1941 and destroyed within months during the Battle of Kiev. Refo ...
had joined the corps. Later the corps helped liberate
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, the
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,
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, Crimea, Belarus and Lithuania. After the Crimean Offensive Chanchibadze moved up to army command, the 3rd Guards Rifle Division Kantemir Tsalikov was selected to be corps commander. From 8 July, the corps fought in the
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, in which Tsalikov was killed when his jeep exploded a mine on 21 July. Lieutenant General
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succeeded him as commander and led the corps for the remainder of the war. It took part in the capture of East Prussia and
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. The corps ended the war on the
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. 42 awards of
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were made to personnel attached to the corps. During the assault and capture of the walled city of Koenigsberg the name "Konigsberg" was conferred on the corps (1945).


Postwar

On June 12, 1946,
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was transformed into the 17th Guards Rifle Brigade. The brigade, stationed at Tula, was transferred in the summer of 1946 to 13th Guards Rifle 'Konigsberg' Corps. The brigade was relocated from Tula to
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. In May 1946, the brigade was relocated from the city of Kaluga to the city of
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in the Smolensk area. The headquarters of 13th Guards Rifle Corps was relocated in the summer of 1946 to the city of
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. On 30 April 1955 the 272nd Rifle Division was renumbered the
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while part of the 13th Guards Rifle Corps. In 1956 the corps headquarters was moved to Gorky. On 25 June 1957, it became the 46th Motor Rifle Division. The same month, the corps became the 13th Guards Army Corps. At the same time it became part of the
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, and on 17 November 1964 was renumbered as the
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, restoring its World War II designation. In February 1967, the division was relocated to
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,
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, as a result of rising tensions with China. When the
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was established in 1960, it joined the corps. In 1965, the 43rd Tank Division was renamed the 60th Tank Division. In 1968, the Corps was awarded the
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. In the corps were: *60th Tank Sevsk Warsaw Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division (Gorky). In early 1980, the 285th Tank Regiment (Warsaw, Order of Kutuzov) was transferred to the
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as the
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gained pace. It was replaced by the 142nd Tank Regiment. The division, a Reduced Strength formation, was reorganized as a Weapons and Equipment Storage Base in 1989, and disbanded in February 1990. *863rd Artillery Regiment. *225th Motor Rifle Division ( Mulino, Volodarsky District,
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): *1303rd Artillery Regiment. *89th Motor Rifle Division (Tambov, Novaya Lyada) In September 1987, the 225th Motor Rifle Division were disbanded. On 1 October 1987, the 89th Motor Rifle Division was reorganized into the 5347th Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment (VKhVT). In March 1989, the 60th Tank Division became the 5409th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base, which was then disbanded on 13 February 1990. In 1990, the corps was under the command of Fyodor Reut.Moscow
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in English, 15:28 GMT 11 September 1992, via
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, Military Affairs: Directory of Military Organizations and Personnel, November 1992, 146.)
According to the directive of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, 14 September 1990, 13th Guards Army Red Konigsberg Corps was transformed into the 22nd Guards Combined Arms Army. The Army was formed on March 1, 1991. In 1990, the 31st Tank Vislenskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division joined the army, relocated from the
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in Czechoslovakia. In 1994, the
47th Guards Tank Division The 47th Guards Nizhnedneprovskaya Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Tank Division (), was a tank division of the Soviet Armed Forces, later Russian Ground Forces. It was formed in October 1942, during World War II from the first formatio ...
joined the 22nd Army, relocated from Germany, and which was set up at the Mulino barracks previously used by the 225th MRD.


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