The 51st 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 22nd Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War.

Organization

* 98th Rifle Division * 112th Rifle Division *

153rd Rifle Division The 153rd Rifle Division was a Soviet infantry division of the Red Army during World War II. It was formed in the Ural Military District. On 22 June 1941 when the German Operation Barbarossa began, it was serving under command of Nikolai Gagen wi ...

Commanders

* Major General Markov, Akim Markovich (February 1941 - August 1941), * Major General Avdeenko, Petr Petrovich (July 3, 1943 - May 28, 1944);

References

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