The 21st Rifle Corps was a corps of the
Soviet Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of Peop ...
. It was part of the
Western Front. It took part in the Great Patriotic War.
The headquarters formed in the
Moscow Military District
The Order of Lenin Moscow Military District () is a Military districts of Russia, military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Originally it was a district of the Imperial Russian Army until the Russian Empire's collapse in 191 ...
in September 1939. Assigned to the WSMD with the
17th,
24th, and
37th Rifle Division
The 37th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.
It served in the North Caucasus Military District; established at Novocherkassk in 1919. In June–July 1939 it was at Omsk preparing for action ...
s. The commander was Major General
Vladimir Borisovich Borisov.
The corps was disbanded in summer 1945.
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Rifle corps of the Soviet Union
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