The 42nd 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 14th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Its initial commander was Major General Roman Ivanovich Panin. The corps was disbanded on 14 October 1941. The Corps Was formed a second time in May 1943 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 ...

. The 399th Rifle Division was part of the 42nd Rifle Corps, 48th Army of the

3rd Belorussian Front The 3rd Belorussian Front () was a Front of the Red Army during the Second World War. The 3rd Belorussian Front was created on 24 April 1944 from forces previously assigned to the Western Front. Over 381 days in combat, the 3rd Belorussian Fr ...

In Germany in May 1945. Combat composition of the Soviet Army, 1 May 1945 The division was disbanded in August 1945, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Shopovalov after Kazakevich left the division on 7 July 1945.

Organization

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Commanders

* Major General Roman Panin ( 14.03.1941 - 23.08.1941), * Major General (24.08.1941 - 14.10.1941), * Major General, from 29.10.1943 - Lieutenant General , (01.06.1943 - 09.05.1945)

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* Rifle corps of the Soviet Union {{Russia-mil-stub