The 44th Rifle Corps was a corps of the
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 People ...
of the
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
. It took part in the Great Patriotic War in 1941 and 1943-45.
On 22 June 1941, the corps consisted of the
64th Rifle Division and the
108th Rifle Division (
General Major Alexander Mavrichev on 22 June 1941). Sources are unclear whether the corps was assigned to the
13th Army that day or directly responsible to the
Western Special Military District.
[Leo Niehorster]
13th Army, 22 June 1941.
/ref> Two days later the WSMD became the Western Front.
Commanders
* Major General Vasily Yushkevich
Vasily Alexandrovich Yushkevich (; – 15 March 1951) was a Soviet Army colonel general.
Conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Povetkin rose from private to second lieutenant during the war. Drafted into the Red Army duri ...
(04.03.1941 - 11.09.1941),
* Major General Michail Kleshnin (26.05.1943 - 11.05.1945)
References
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Rifle corps of the Soviet Union
Military units and formations established in 1941
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