A rifle corps (russian: стрелковый корпус, translit=strelkovyy korpus) was a

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corps-level military formation during the mid-twentieth century. Rifle corps were made up of a varying number of

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s, although the allocation of three rifle divisions to a rifle corps was common during the latter part of

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. Unlike army

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formed by

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and the Western Allies, Soviet rifle corps were composed primarily of combat troops and had only a small logistical component. Because the rifle divisions themselves were also primarily made up of combat troops, the rifle corps were numerically smaller than corps of other nations. The Soviets also formed Guards rifle corps during World War II, although these were often assigned control of regular rifle divisions and sometimes controlled no Guards rifle divisions. The Red Army as a whole had 27 rifle corps headquarters in its order of battle on 1 June 1938; this had been expanded to 62 by June 1941. When Germany invaded the

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on June 22, 1941, the

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initially had some 32 rifle corps headquarters as part of their

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in action against the Germans. Because

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's prewar purge of the Red Army had removed so many experienced leaders, the rifle corps echelon of command in Soviet forces engaged against the Germans dwindled in the face of massive Red Army losses of 1941. The stark shortage of experienced leaders forced the Red Army to have rifle army headquarters directly supervising rifle divisions without the assistance of intervening rifle corps headquarters. The use of rifle corps headquarters never disappeared entirely from the Red Army during World War II, as field armies in areas not fighting the Germans (such as the

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) maintained their use of rifle corps headquarters during the entire war. An example of wartime rifle corps organization is that of the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps in 1942: * 8th Rifle Corps ** 7th Rifle Division ** 249th Rifle Division ** 85th Corps Artillery Regiment ** 36th Sapper Battalion ** 86th Medical Battalion ** 482nd Reconnaissance Company ** 162nd Machine Gun Battalion Of the 8th Rifle Corps' 1942 strength of 26,466 men, only 2,599 (less than 10 per cent) made up the corps headquarters and corps assets, the remainder being assigned to the two rifle divisions. By November 1941, the Soviet order of battle showed only one rifle corps headquarters still active among the forces fighting the German invasion. By early 1942, however, the Soviets began to reactivate rifle corps headquarters for use as an intermediate command echelon between the rifle armies and rifle divisions. Doubtlessly, the direct command of divisions by army headquarters resulted in too-large spans of control for army commanders and the Red Army desired to reintroduce the rifle corps headquarters once enough experienced commanders and staff officers were available. By the end of 1942, 21 rifle corps headquarters were in action with Soviet forces engaging the Germans. This grew to over 100 by the end of 1943, and reached a peak of 174 either in action against the Germans or as part of the strategic reserve of the

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by the end of the war with Germany in May 1945. Circa September 1945, the 11, 15, 16, 21, 22, 25, 28, 36, 42, 43, 44, 47, 51, 52, 55, 61, 62, 64, 67, 68, 70, 71, 74, 77, 80, 89, 91, 93, 95, 96, 98, 100, 106, 115, 117, 118, 120, 121, 133, and 135th Rifle Corps were disbanded. A limited number of Rifle Corps remained as part of the Ground Forces post 1945. They were converted to 'Army Corps' in 1955 though they still mostly consisted of Rifle and then Motor Rifle Divisions.

List of Soviet rifle corps

Formed before 22 June 1941

1–10 Corps

* 1st Rifle Corps – 10th Army, Western Special MD, under General Major F.D. Rubtsov with 2nd and 8th Rifle Divisions. Last mention in the Soviet Order of Battle (OOB) on 1 July 1941 with corps directly subordinated to the Western Front. The corps reappeared in the OOB on 1 June 1942 directly subordinated to the North Caucasus Front, and made up of four rifle brigades. Thereafter, the last 1942 OOB mention of the corps is on 1 August 1942. The 1st Rifle Corps reappears in the Soviet OOB on 1 September 1943 as part of the Northwestern Front. Final mention on 1 May 1945 subordinated to the 1st Shock Army and in command of the 306th, 344th, and 357th Rifle Divisions. Feskov et al. 2004 says the corps headquarters, as well as the 4th Shock Army, was moved to Central Asia after the end of the war and established at

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. In 1969, the corps headquarters was moved to Semipalatinsk, where it was raised in status to become 32nd Army. A tank division may have moved to Semipalatinsk alongside the corps headquarters. *

2nd Rifle Corps The 2nd Rifle Corps was an infantry corps of the Red Army during the interwar period and World War II, formed twice. First formation It was formed in September 1922 as the 2nd Army Corps in accordance with orders dated 10 June, 18 July, and 12 ...

– formed in September 1922 as the 2nd Army Corps. As part of

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participated in the Battle of Bialystok-Minsk near the Minsk and Slutsky

Fortified Region A fortified district or fortified region (russian: Укреплённый район, Укрепрайон, ukreplyonny raion, ukrepraion) in the military terminology of the Soviet Union, is a territory within which a complex system of defense ...

s. in late June – early July, 1941. Reformed and fought against Japan in 1945. On 1 July 1945, was part of the

Transbaikal Front The Transbaikal Front (russian: Забайкальский фронт) was a front formed on September 15, 1941, on the basis of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air A ...

and comprised 103rd, 275th, and 292nd Rifle Divisions. *

3rd Rifle Corps The 3rd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army which saw service in World War II and in the 1950s. The corps was first formed in 1923 from the 3rd Army Corps in the Moscow Military District and fought in the Soviet invasion of Poland and the ...

- 4th Rifle Division, 20th Mountain Rifle, 47th Mtn Rifle, as part of Transcaucasus Military District.Leo Niehorster
Transcaucasus Military District, Red Army, 22.06.41
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4th Rifle Corps The 4th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army, active from the 1920s. First Formation It was formed during the Russian Civil War as part of the Western Front of the Red Army in May and June 1922. The corps headquarters was stationed in Vitebsk ...

– 27th, 56th, and 85th Rifle Divisions, as part of 3rd Army. (See :ru:4-й стрелковый корпус (1-го формирования)). On 1 July 1945 the second formation of the corps was part of the Belomorsky Military District in the north, with 25th, 289th, and 341st Rifle Divisions. *

5th Rifle Corps The 5th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed twice. Formed in 1922, the corps was based at Bobruisk in Belarus for most of the interwar period. It fought in the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, with elements ...

–

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, 86th, and 113th Rifle Divisions, part of 10th Army, WSMD. Reactivated 27 June 1942, often known as 5th independent Rifle Corps. On 1 July 1945 consisted of

35th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The 35th Rifle Division was a division of the Red Army, formed twice. History First formation Russian Civil War The history of the 35th Rifle Division's first formation began in August 1918 when the Kamyshin front troops of the North Cau ...

and

390th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The 390th Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. It was formed twice, first in August 1941, and after its destruction in 1942, re-formed in 1944. The division landed in eastern Crimea a ...

. With 2nd Far East Front during the

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in 1945, then transferred to

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(August–October 1945) and then the Far Eastern Military District. On 1 January 1946 it consisted of the 34th Rifle Division (Vyazemskiy, Khabarovsk Kray), and the 35th Rifle Division (Bikin, Khabarovsk Kray), and was part of the Far Eastern Military District. It was disbanded in July 1946. * 6th Rifle Corps – The 6th Rifle Corps HQ was formed in Kiev in May 1922. The Corps was formed on the orders of the Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Crimea number 627/162 from May 23, 1922 in Kiev, part of Kiev and Kharkov Military District. * 7th Rifle Corps – in the Odessa Military District, under General Major K.L. Dobroserdov included 116th, 196th, and

206th Rifle Division The 206th Rifle Division was twice formed as an infantry division of the Red Army, first as part of the prewar buildup of forces. Its first formation in March 1941 was based on the last prewar ''shtat'' (table of organization and equipment) for rif ...

s. Finished war as part of

3rd Shock Army The 3rd Shock Army (russian: Третья ударная армия) was a field army of the Red Army formed during the Second World War. The "Shock" armies were created with the specific structure to engage and destroy significant enemy forces ...

. * 8th Rifle Corps – 26th Army, Kiev Special Military District, under General Major M.G. Snegov with 99th,

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s and

72nd Mountain Rifle Division The 72nd Mountain Rifle Division was formed as a specialized infantry division of the Red Army in the spring of 1941, based on the 72nd Rifle Division (1936 formation) which had previously been the 4th Turkestan Division. At the time of the Germa ...

Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, pg. 265 Became 41st Guards Rifle Corps 1945, spent last of its war service in the 42nd Army, Courland Group, Leningrad Front. * 9th Rifle Corps – In June, 1941, General Lieutenant Pavel Batov was in command of the 9th Separate Rifle Corps, which comprised the 106th and 156th Rifle Divisions and the 32nd Cavalry Division, with a total strength of about 35,000 men. This corps was the only major Red Army formation in the

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, Odessa Military District at the outbreak of

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, and Batov had arrived at its headquarters in

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just two days earlier. In 1945 during the final

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the corps was part of

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and comprised the 230th, 248th, and

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s. Served with the

, later 3rd Combined Arms Army, from 1947– 56. From 1947 consisted of 94th Guards Rifle Division (

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) and 18th Mechanised Division (Perleberg). Disbanded 4 July 1956. *

10th Rifle Corps The 10th Rifle Corps (Military Unit Number 16058 until June 1956) was an infantry corps of the Red Army, which later became the 10th Army Corps after the Second World War. Interwar period The corps was formed by an order dated 12 July 1922 in ...

-assigned to the 8th Army in the

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(BSMD). Included the

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, 48th, and 90th Rifle Divisions.Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, pg. 261 The corps arrived in the Urals Military District comprising the 91st, 279th, and

347th Rifle Division The 347th Rifle Division began forming in mid-September 1941, as a Red Army rifle division, in the North Caucasus Military District. It was soon assigned to the 58th Army while both it and its Army continued to form up before entering combat in Nov ...

s. Active in 1948 with three rifle brigades (12th, 14th and 40th (Kirov, Kirov Oblast)). 12th Brigade was disbanded, 14th Rifle Brigade became 91st Rifle Division in October 1953, and 40th Brigade was briefly 194th Rifle Division (1951–53) before becoming 65th Mechanised Division. Corps HQ moved to Vilnius in June 1956, becoming part of

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, and took over 26th Guards Rifle and 71st Mechanised Divisions. Became 10th Army Corps on 4 June 1957 but disbanded in June 1960.

11–20 Corps

11th Rifle Corps The 11th Rifle Corps () was a corps of the Red Army, formed twice. The 11th was first formed in 1922 in the Petrograd area but soon moved to the Belorussian Military District. After fighting in the Soviet invasion of Poland, the corps moved to ...

– assigned to the 8th Army in the Baltic Special Military District, with the

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, and

125th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

s.Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, pg. 262 Disbanded circa September 1945, by Stavka VGK Order 11097 of 29.5.45, which established the

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.Feskov 2013, 407. *

12th Rifle Corps The 12th Rifle Corps () was an infantry corps of the Red Army during the interwar period and World War II, formed four times. The corps headquarters was briefly active between late 1922 and early 1923 as part of the Separate Caucasus Army, and ...

– Transbaikal Military District, with 65th and 94th Rifle Divisions on 22 June 1941. Disbanded July 1941. Reformed October 1942. 1 November 1942 listed with reserves, Black Sea Group of Forces, with the 77th, 261st, 349th, and 351st Rifle Divisions by BSSA. A month later it consisted of the 261, 349, 351, and 406th Rifle Divisions. January 1943 was with Transcaucasus Front, 45th Army, with 261, 349, 392, and 406th Rifle Divisions. 12th Mountain Rifle Corps for a period. 1946 to 1957 in

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before becoming 12th Army Corps. * 13th Rifle Corps – First formed 1922 and disbanded 1935. Reformed 1936, in 12th Army, Kiev Special Military District, under General Major N.K. Kirillov, with 44th, 58th, and

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s on 22 June 1941. Appears to have spent much of 1945 within the Front Troops of Transcaucasus Front, consisting of

392nd Rifle Division The 392nd Rifle Division was raised in 1941 as an infantry division of the Red Army, and served during the Great Patriotic War in that role. It was formed in August in the Transcaucasus Military District as a Georgian National division. It saw its ...

and 94th Rifle Brigade. On 1 January 1948, still with Transcaucasus Military District, comprising

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and

414th Rifle Division The 414th Rifle Division was twice formed as an infantry division of the Red Army; very briefly in the winter of 1941/42, then from the spring of 1942 until after the end of the Great Patriotic War. It was officially considered a Georgian National ...

. By January 1951 it had become 13th Mountain Rifle Corps, with 10th Guards Mountain Rifle Division, and 145th Mountain Rifle Division. (Feskov et al 2013, 53), and was still in that configuration in 1954 (Feskov et al 2013, 55). Disbanded by being redesignated 31st Special Rifle Corps on 1 July 1956, and then successively 31st Special Army Corps (1 October 1957) and 31st Army Corps (9 May 1961). *

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– 9th Army, Odessa Military District, under General Major D.G. Egorov comprising the 25th and

51st Rifle Division The 51st Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Army, formed twice. Its first formation was formed during the Russian Civil War and fought in the Perekop-Chongar Offensive in 1920. It also fought in the Soviet invasion of Poland, Wi ...

s. By the end of the war, 14th Rifle Corps was a direct-reporting formation of 2nd Belorussian Front, including

90th Guards Rifle Division The 90th Guards Rifle Vitebsk Division was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II. Formed from the 325th Rifle Division in recognition of its actions during the winter of 1943, the division fought in the Battle of Kursk, the ...

. Disbanded by Stavka VGK Order 11097 of 29.5.45, which established the

. *

15th Rifle Corps The 15th Rifle Corps () was a rifle corps of the Red Army, formed five times; each formation was a distinct unit unrelated to the others. It was part of the 5th Army. It took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. History 1922–1924 ...

– Kiev Special Military District assigned to the 5th Army with the 45th, and 62nd Rifle Divisions.Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, pg. 264 Disbanded summer 1945.Feskov et al 2013, 132. *

16th Rifle Corps The 16th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army, formed twice. It took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 and destroyed in the Baltic Operation during Operation Barbarossa. Reformed in 1942, the corps fought through the res ...

– assigned to the 11th Army in the

, including the

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, 33rd, and 188th Rifle Divisions. Used to form Headquarters, 48th Army on 7 August 1941. Reformed in

Transcaucasian Front Transcaucasian Front or Transcaucasus Front (russian: Закавказский Фронт) was a front of the Soviet Red Army—a military formation comparable to an army group, not a geographic military front—during the Second World War. Th ...

on 20 November 1942. Disbanded summer 1945. *

17th Rifle Corps The 17th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army and later the Soviet Army, formed three times. It was first formed in 1922 in the Soviet Far East before relocating to Ukraine two years later. It fought in the Soviet invasion of Poland and was des ...

– 12th Army, Kiev Special MD, under General Major I.V. Galanin comprising the 60th, 69th Mountain Rifle, and

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s. *

18th Rifle Corps 18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19. In mathematics * Eighteen is a composite number, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. Three of these divisors (3, 6 and 9) add up to 18, hence 18 is a semiperfect number. ...

**Headquarters formed in October 1923 at

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with the

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and disbanded in December of that year. **Headquarters reformed in July 1924 with the

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, mostly stationed at Irkutsk during existence. Transferred to the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army August 1929 and used to form headquarters of the Transbaikal Group of Forces of the army in February 1932. **18th Rifle Corps (1st formation) – Headquarters reformed in February 1934 from a cadre of the

19th Rifle Corps The 19th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 23rd Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 142nd Rifle Division * 115th Rifle Division Commanders * Kombrig Vsevolod Yakovlev (14.07.1937 - ...

, then transferred to Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army a month later. Headquarters located at

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during the late 1930s. Became headquarters of the 2nd Army of the Far Eastern Front between July and September 1938, then restored as part of 2nd Independent Red Banner Army. With 15th Army of the Far Eastern Front on 22 June 1941, assigned 34th Rifle Division and 202nd Airborne Brigade. Headquarters used to form that of the 35th Army in July 1941. **18th Rifle Corps (2nd formation) – Headquarters reformed in December 1942, assigned to

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reserve, and disbanded in February 1943. **18th Rifle Corps (3rd formation) – Headquarters reformed in February 1943 with the

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of the Southwestern Front. Became 34th Guards Rifle Corps on 25 April. **18th Rifle Corps (4th formation) – Reformed 1 June 1943. On 10 May 1945 it included the 37th Guards Rifle Division, 15th Rifle Division, and

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, reporting to 65th Army. After a rapid period of redesignations and reassignments, the corps was moved to Lodz in

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where by July 1946 it was controlling the

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(Borne Sulinovo) and 26th Rifle Division (Lodz). It remained under the control of the

from 12 June 1946 until it was disbanded in July 1952. *

**Headquarters formed July 1924 at

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with the

and received Primorsky honorific in October of that year. Transferred to the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army August 1929 and renamed Primorsky Rifle Corps in 1930. **19th Rifle Corps (1st formation) – Headquarters reformed July 1930 at

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with the

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. Assigned to the 23rd Army of the Leningrad Military District with the 115th and 142nd Rifle Divisions on 22 June 1941. Headquarters used to form headquarters of the 2nd Neva Operational Group on 25 October. **19th Rifle Corps (2nd formation) – Headquarters reformed in February 1943 with the 1st Guards Army of the Southwestern Front. Became 29th Guards Rifle Corps on 16 April. **19th Rifle Corps (3rd formation) – Headquarters reformed during June 1943 in the

. In reserve of the Courland Group of Forces of the Leningrad Front on 1 May 1945, assigned the 43rd Rifle Division. With

7th Guards Army The 7th Guards Army was a field army of the Red Army during World War II and of the Soviet Army during the Cold War. History The 7th Guards Army was formed from the 64th Army on April 16, 1943. 64th Army had originally been formed from ...

in the

Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , ...

from late 1945, redesignated as mountain rifle corps during early 1950s. Became 19th Army Corps in June 1957. * 20th Rifle Corps **Headquarters formed May 1936 at

with the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army from the

Special Kolkhoz Corps Special or specials may refer to: Policing * Specials, Ulster Special Constabulary, the Northern Ireland police force * Specials, Special Constable, an auxiliary, volunteer, or temporary; police worker or police officer Literature * ''Speci ...

. Became headquarters of the Khabarovsk Group of Forces of the Far Eastern Front between July and September 1938, then reverted to 20th Rifle Corps designation as part of 2nd Independent Red Banner Army at

Birobidzhan Birobidzhan ( rus, Биробиджа́н, p=bʲɪrəbʲɪˈdʐan; yi, ביראָבידזשאַן, ''Birobidzhan'') is a town and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near th ...

. Headquarters disbanded July 1940 and used to form 15th Army headquarters. **20th Rifle Corps (1st formation) – Headquarters reformed with the

Moscow Military District The Order of Lenin Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The district was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1968. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military ...

in July 1940. Assigned 137th and 160th Rifle Divisions, as part of the

Reserve of the Supreme High Command The Reserve of the Supreme High Command (Russian: Резерв Верховного Главнокомандования; also known as the '' Stavka'' Reserve or RVGK ( ru , РВГК)) comprises reserve military formations and units; the Sta ...

(RVGK) on 22 June 1941. Headquarters disbanded 16 August and used to form

Bryansk Front The Bryansk Front (russian: Брянский фронт) was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War. First Formation (August - November 1941) General Andrei Yeremenko was designated commander of the Front when it first fo ...

headquarters. **20th Rifle Corps (2nd formation) – Headquarters reformed in February 1943 with the 18th Army of the Black Sea Group of Forces of the North Caucasian Front. Awarded Brest honorific and

Order of the Red Banner The Order of the Red Banner (russian: Орден Красного Знамени, Orden Krasnogo Znameni) was the first Soviet military decoration. The Order was established on 16 September 1918, during the Russian Civil War by decree of th ...

. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front on 1 May 1945, assigned 48th and 55th Guards and 20th Rifle Divisions. Disbanded summer 1945.

21–30 Corps

21st Rifle Corps The 21st Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the Western Front. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. The headquarters formed in the Moscow Military District in September 1939. Assigned to the WSMD with the 17th, 2 ...

– Headquarters formed in the

in September 1939. Assigned to the WSMD with the

17th 17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number. Seventeen is the sum of the first four prime numbers. In mathematics 17 is the seventh prime number, which makes seventeen the fourth super-prime, as s ...

, 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 a ...

s. Disbanded summer 1945. *

22nd Rifle Corps The 22nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army, formed thrice. It was initially formed from the Estonian Army after the Soviet occupation of that country in June 1940. The corps was destroyed during the Baltic Operation. After large-scale de ...

– Headquarters formed in the Baltic Special Military District in August 1940. With 180th and 182nd Rifle Divisions, part of 27th Army, BSMD Estonian Territorial Rifle Corps.Nigel Thomas, Germany's Eastern Front Allies (2): Baltic Forces, Osprey, 5. Second formation 1943-summer 1945. * 23rd Rifle Corps – in the Transcaucasus Military District comprising 136th Rifle Division and 138th Mountain Rifle Division under General Major K.F. Baranov. Disbanded in Berlin while with 3rd Combined Arms Army, 4 July 1956. (Feskov et al 2013, 133) * 24th Rifle Corps – After the occupation of Latvia in June 1940 the annihilation of the Latvian Army began. The army was renamed the People's Army and in September–November 1940– the Red Army's

24th Territorial Rifle Corps Fourth or the fourth may refer to: * the ordinal form of the number 4 * ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971 * Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision * Fourth (music), a musical interval * ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Sovie ...

. In September the corps contained 24,416 men but in autumn more than 800 officers and about 10,000 instructors and soldiers were discharged. The arresting of soldiers continued in the following months. In June 1940, the entire Territorial Corps was sent to Litene camp. Before leaving the camp, Latvians drafted in 1939 were demobilised, and replaced by about 4000 Russian soldiers from area around Moscow. On June 10, the corps senior officers were sent to Russia where they were arrested and most of them- shot. On June 14 at least 430 officers were arrested and sent to

Gulag The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the State Political Directorate, GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= ...

camps. After the German attack to Soviet Union, from June 29 to July 1 more 2080 Latvian soldiers were demobilsed, fearing that they might turn their weapons against the Russian commissars and officers. Simultaneously, many soldiers and officers deserted and when the corps crossed the Latvian border only about 3000 Latvian soldiers remained. On June 22, 1941 it comprised the 181st and 183rd Rifle Divisions, part of 27th Army, BSMD. Latvian Territorial Rifle Corps. It finished the war in 1945 in Germany as part of

– 117th Rifle Division, 380th Rifle Division, 395th Rifle Division. * 25th Rifle Corps – Headquarters formed in the Kharkov Military District in September 1939. 127th, 134th and 162nd Rifle Divisions, part of 19th Army. Disbanded summer 1945. After the war, became 25th Army Corps on 25 June 1957 (Feskov et al 2013, 133) * 26th Rifle Corps – Comprised the

21st 21 (twenty-one) is the natural number following 20 and preceding 22. The current century is the 21st century AD, under the Gregorian calendar. In mathematics 21 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 3 and 7, and a defici ...

, 22nd, and 26th Rifle Divisions, part of

First Red Banner Army The 1st Red Banner Army () was a Red Army field army of World War II that served in the Russian Far East, Soviet Far East. Before 1941 The 1st Army was created in July 1938 under the name of the 1st Coastal Army (or, depending on translation, 1s ...

, Soviet Far East Front. After the war, part of 36th Army for a time, and stationed at

Dauriya Dauriya (russian: Даурия, also romanized as ''Dauriia'' or ''Dauria'') is a historical and geographical region spanning modern Buryatia, Zabaykalsky Krai and the Amur Region. The toponym is given according to the Daur people who inhabited ...

. Disbanded 18 April 1956. *

27th Rifle Corps 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, s ...

– Headquarters formed in the Kiev Special Military District in September 1939. Assigned to the 5th Army and composed of the 87th, 124th, and

135th Rifle Division 135th may refer to: *135th (2/1st South Western) Brigade, formation of the Territorial Force of the British Army * 135th (Limerick) Regiment of Foot, infantry regiment of the British Army, created and promptly disbanded in 1796 * 135th (Middlesex) ...

s. *

28th Rifle Corps The 28th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 4th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Battle Organization * 6th Rifle Division * 42nd Rifle Division The 42nd Rifle Division was a unit of the Red Ar ...

– Headquarters formed from the headquarters of the Reserve Group of the

Northwestern Front The Northwestern Front (Russian: ''Северо-Западный фронт'') was a military formation of the Red Army during the Winter War and World War II. It was operational with the 7th and 13th Armies during the Winter War. It was re-cr ...

in February 1940. Comprised the

6th 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

, 42nd, 49th, and

75th Rifle Division 75th may refer to: *75th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2002, held on March 23, 2003 *75th Avenue–61st Street Historic District, a national historic district in Ridgewood, Queens, New York *75th Grey Cup, the 1987 Canadian Football Leag ...

s as part of 4th Army. Disbanded summer 1945. *

29th Rifle Corps The 29th Rifle Corps ( lt, 29-asis teritorinis šaulių korpusas) was formed several times in Soviet Red Army, each formation primarily seeing combat on the Eastern Front during World War II. The first formation of the 29th Rifle Corps was known ...

– Headquarters formed in the Baltic Special Military District in August 1940. Assigned to the 11th Army in the

, including the 179th and 181st Rifle Divisions. Lithuanian Territorial Rifle Corps. Destroyed(?) September 1941 in the initial stages of

, and disbanded. 29th Rifle Corps (II), March–April 1943. Reformed on 25 June 1943 as the 29th Rifle Corps. Included 55th Rifle Division (IIIrd Formation), in September–October–November 1943 while part of 60th Army. Mid 1957 reorganised as 29th Army Corps. Mid 1969 disbanded by being upgraded and reorganised as 35th Army. * 30th Rifle Corps – Headquarters formed in the Orel Military District in September 1939. In the Orel Military District, including the 19th, 149th and 217th Rifle Divisions. Reformed and assigned to 18th Army,

4th Ukrainian Front The 4th Ukrainian Front ( Russian: Четвёртый Украинский фронт) was the name of two distinct Red Army strategic army groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II. The front was first formed on 20 October 1943, b ...

in 1944 in the Mukachevo – Uzhgorod area during Carpathian-Uzhgorod Offensive Operation (9 September 1944 – 28 September 1944) Disbanded summer 1945.

31–40 Corps

31st Rifle Corps 31 (thirty-one) is the natural number following 30 and preceding 32. It is a prime number. In mathematics 31 is the 11th prime number. It is a superprime and a self prime (after 3, 5, and 7), as no integer added up to its base 10 digits ...

– composed of the 193rd, 195th, 200th Rifle Divisions, assigned to the Southwestern Front. Disbanded on 25 Sep 41. Reformed as part of 26th Army on 5 Feb 43, disbanded in 1952 in Murmansk to form the 6th Army *

32nd Rifle Corps The 32nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army during World War II, formed twice. Each formation was a distinct unit, unrelated to the other. First formation The corps headquarters formed in the Transbaikal Military District in September 1939 ...

– Headquarters formed in the

Transbaikal Military District The Transbaikal Military District (russian: Забайкальский военный округ) was a military district of first the Soviet Armed Forces and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the ...

in September 1939. 46th and 152nd Rifle Divisions, with 16th Army, STAVKA Reserve. With

in January–February 1945,

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 Front ...

. Briefly reformed at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in 1955 but disbanded in 1956. (Feskov et al 2013, 131, 580.) * 33rd Rifle Corps – in the Orel Military District, including 89th, 120th, and 145th Rifle Divisions. Reformed from 119th Rifle Corps in June 1955; on 4 June 1957 renamed 33rd Army Corps. Moved from

Dushanbe Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (ru ...

Kemerovo Kemerovo ( rus, Ке́мерово, p=ˈkʲemʲɪrəvə) is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk ...

(Siberian Military District) in 1968. Disbanded July 1991, with elements absorbed by the

28th Army Corps 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number ...

, which was arriving in Kemerovo from the

Olomouc Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019). Located on th ...

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

( Central Group of Forces). *

34th Rifle Corps The 34th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 19th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 129th Rifle Division * 158th Rifle Division * 171st Rifle Division Commanders * Divisional comma ...

– Headquarters formed in the

in September 1939. 129th, 158th and 171st Rifle Divisions, part of 19th Army *

35th Rifle Corps Military units *35th Fighter Wing, an air combat unit of the United States Air Force *35th Infantry Division (United States), a formation of the National Guard since World War I *35th Infantry Regiment (United States), a regiment created on 1 July 1 ...

– Headquarters formed in the Kiev Special Military District in September 1939. 9th Army, Odessa Military District, comprising the 95th and

176th Rifle Division The 176th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, originally formed as part of the prewar buildup of forces, based on the ''shtat'' (table of organization and equipment) of September 13, 1939. The division completed its formation a ...

s. * 36th Rifle Corps – Headquarters formed in the Kiev Special Military District in September 1939. Composed of the 140th, 146th, and 228th Rifle Divisions Disbanded summer 1945, while with 31st Army. Comprised 62nd, 88th and 331st Rifle Division on 10 June 1945. * 37th Rifle Corps – Headquarters formed in the Kiev Special Military District in September 1939. In the Kiev Special Military District, assigned to the 6th Army, including 80th, 139th, and 141st Rifle Divisions. * 39th Rifle Corps – comprised the 32nd, 40th, and 92nd Rifle Divisions, part of 25th Army, Soviet Far East Front *

40th Rifle Corps 4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest c ...

– Headquarters formed in the Transcaucasus Military District in March 1941. in the Transcaucasus Military District under General Major A. A. Khadeev with 9th Rifle Division and

31st Rifle Division The 31st Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the interwar period and World War II. Formed in 1925 near Stalingrad, the division was garrisoned in the city until 1940, when it was transferred to Yerevan t ...

41–50 Corps

* 41st Rifle Corps – Headquarters formed in the

in March 1941. in the Moscow Military District included 118th and 235th Rifle Divisions *

42nd Rifle Corps The 42nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. 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 ...

– Headquarters formed in the

in March 1941. Assigned to the

14th Army Fourteenth Army or 14th Army may refer to: * 14th Army (German Empire), a World War I field Army * 14th Army (Wehrmacht), a World War II field army * Italian Fourteenth Army * Japanese Fourteenth Army, a World War II field army, in 1944 converted ...

with the 104th and 22nd Rifle Divisions. First Formation 22 June 1941, disbanded 14 October 1941; was used to reinforce the Kandalksha operational group. *

44th Rifle Corps The 44th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army of the Soviet Union. 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 (Soviet Union), 64th Rifle Division and the 108th R ...

– under HQ Western Special Military District, comprised the 64th and

108th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length ...

s under General Major Vasily Yushkevich. * 45th Rifle Corps – with the 187th, 227th and 232nd Rifle Divisions, part of the Stavka Reserve. * 47th Rifle Corps – under HQ Western Special Military District, comprised the 55th, 121st, and 143rd Rifle Divisions. * 48th Rifle Corps – 9th Army, Odessa Military District, comprising the 30th Mountain Rifle and 74th Rifle Divisions. *

49th Rifle Corps "Thank God for Mississippi" is an adage used in the United States, particularly in the South, that is generally used when discussing rankings of U.S. states. Since the U.S. state of Mississippi commonly ranks at or near the bottom of such rankings ...

– composed of the 190th, 197th and 199th Rifle Divisions. On August 4, 1943, the corps, as a part of the 7th Guards Army, overcoming the enemy's stubborn resistance and deflecting frenzied counterattacks, persistently moved forward to Belgorod. Increasing the attack force, parts of the corps stormed the city and cleared it on August 5. On January 18, 1944, the units of the corps, as a part of 53rd Army, fought defensively in the Zvenigorodka–Vodyanoy area. By February 13, 1944, the corps, after being subordinated to the

5th Guards Tank Army The 5th Guards Tank Army (Russian: 5-я гварде́йская та́нковая а́рмия) was a Soviet Guards armored formation which fought in many notable actions during World War II. The army was formed in February 1943. Until the aft ...

, was transferred back to 53A along with their defensive position. *

50th Rifle Corps The 50th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 23rd Army on 22 June 1941. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization On 22 June 1941, the corps included the following units: * 43rd Rifle Division * 70t ...

– Assigned to the 23rd Army,

with the 43rd, 70th and

123rd Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

s. Used to form 42nd Army in August 41. Reformed in May–June 1943 and initially assigned to 38th Army. Disbanded in June–July 1945.

51–60 Corps

51st Rifle Corps The 51st Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 22nd Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 98th Rifle Division * 112th Rifle Division Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural nu ...

, with 98th, 112th, and 153rd Rifle Divisions, part of the 22nd Army *

52nd Rifle Corps The 52nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 24th Army. It took part in the Eastern Front of World War II. Organization * 91st Rifle Division * 119th Rifle Division * 166th Rifle Division Commanders * Fran ...

, with its HQ in Novosibirsk,

along with the 133rd Rifle Division, additionally had the 166th Rifle Division at Barabinsk and the 178th Rifle Division at

Omsk Omsk (; rus, Омск, p=omsk) is the administrative center and largest city of Omsk Oblast, Russia. It is situated in southwestern Siberia, and has a population of over 1.1 million. Omsk is the third largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk ...

, part of 24th Army.Leo Niehorster
/ref> Became 30th Army on 13 July 1941. Disbanded by Stavka VGK Order 11097 of 29.5.45, which established the

. *

53rd Rifle Corps The 53rd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 24th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. After a brief period on occupation duty in Germany after the war ended, the 17th Rifle Division (III Formation) was r ...

Krasnoyarsk Krasnoyarsk ( ; rus, Красноя́рск, a=Ru-Красноярск2.ogg, p=krəsnɐˈjarsk) (in semantic translation - Red Ravine City) is the largest city and administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is situated along the Yen ...

, where the 119th Rifle Division was stationed, also included the 107th Rifle Division at

Barnaul Barnaul ( rus, Барнау́л, p=bərnɐˈul) is the largest city and administrative centre of Altai Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of the Barnaulka and Ob Rivers in the West Siberian Plain. As of the 2021 Census, its population wa ...

and the 91st Rifle Division at

Achinsk Achinsk (russian: А́чинск) is a city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Chulym River near its intersection with the Trans-Siberian Railway, west of Krasnoyarsk. It has a population of 109,155 as of the 2010 C ...

, part of 24th Army * 55th Rifle Corps – composed of the 130th, 169th, and 189th Rifle Divisions * 58th Rifle Corps – composed of the 68th, 83rd, and 194th Mountain Rifle Divisions in the Central Asia Military District. In February 1944, 68th Mountain Rifle Division, 75th Rifle Division, 89th Rifle Brigade, and 90th Rifle Brigade with 4th Army. * 59th Rifle Corps – composed of the 39th and 59th Rifle Divisions, part of

1st Red Banner Army The 1st Red Banner Army () was a Red Army field army of World War II that served in the Soviet Far East. Before 1941 The 1st Army was created in July 1938 under the name of the 1st Coastal Army (or, depending on translation, 1st Maritime Army) i ...

, Soviet Far East Front * 60th Rifle Corps – Western Special Military District. 7th, 8th, and 214th Airborne Brigades. Became 4th Airborne Corps 23 June 1941.

61–70 Corps

61st Rifle Corps The 61st Rifle Corps ( Russian: 61-й стрелковый корпус '' '') was a Red Army infantry corps during World War II, formed twice. The 61st Rifle Corps was formed firmed in Tula during September 1939. After Operation Barbarossa, it was ...

– 110th, 144th, 172nd Rifle Divisions, 20th Army, Stavka Reserve *

62nd Rifle Corps The 62nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of t ...

– 170th, 174th, 186th Rifle Divisions, with 22nd Army *

63rd Rifle Corps The 63rd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army during World War II, formed twice. First formation The corps headquarters was first formed during September 1939 in the Volga Military District. It was part of the 21st Army in June 1941, with t ...

– 53rd, 148th, 167th Rifle Divisions, with 21st Army. While at

Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk ( rus, Челя́бинск, p=tɕɪˈlʲæbʲɪnsk, a=Ru-Chelyabinsk.ogg; ba, Силәбе, ''Siläbe'') is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the seventh-largest city in Russia, with a ...

in the Urals Military District in the 1950s, disbanded by being redesignated 63rd Army Corps on 4 June 1957. * 64th Rifle Corps –

with the 165th, and 175th Rifle Divisions. At the end of the war with 57th Army, comprised the 73rd Guards, 113th, and

299th Rifle Division The 299th Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, formed twice. The division was first formed in the summer of 1941 and was destroyed during the Battle of Moscow in the fall of that year. The ...

s. * 65th Rifle Corps – Headquarters only assigned to the Baltic Special Military District. Active again in Dec 43 assigned to the 33rd Army. *

66th Rifle Corps The 66th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 21st Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 61st Rifle Division * 117th Rifle Division * 154th Rifle Division Commanders * Major General Fyo ...

– 61st, 117th, 154th Rifle Divisions, with 21st Army *

67th Rifle Corps The 67th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army during World War II, formed twice. First formation The corps was formed in March 1940 in the Kharkov Military District with the 102nd Rifle Division, 132nd, and 151st Rifle Divisions, 194th Sep ...

– 102nd, 132nd, 151st Rifle Divisions, part of the STAVKA Reserve Disbanded by Stavka VGK Order 11097 of 29.5.45, which established the

. *

69th Rifle Corps The 69th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 20th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 73rd Rifle Division * 229th Rifle Division * 233rd Rifle Division Commanders * Major General Yev ...

– 73rd, 229th, 233rd Rifle Divisions, 20th Army, Stavka Reserve. Active again in Apr 44 assigned to the 33rd Army

Named corps

* Special Rifle Corps – 79th Rifle Division and 101st Mountain Rifle Division, Far Eastern Front

World War II

Almost all Soviet Rifle Corps were disbanded in the first several months of the war and reformed as the

gained experience in commanding large numbers of forces.

1–70 Corps

* 38th Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet Order of Battle (OOB) 1 June 1943, as part of the 50th Army, Western Front. Subordinate divisions at this date were the

, 326th, and 413th Rifle Divisions. *

43rd Rifle Corps The 43rd Army Corps (Military Unit Number 16460) was a corps of the Soviet Army from 1945 to 1989. The corps was first formed as the 137th Rifle Corps in late 1945 and became the 43rd Rifle Corps (Second Formation) in 1955. The corps was redesignate ...

– first appears in Soviet OOB 1 June 1943, as part of the

2nd Shock Army The 2nd Shock Army (russian: 2-я Ударная армия) was a field army of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. This type of formation was created in accordance with prewar doctrine that called for Shock Armies to ''overcome difficu ...

, Leningrad Front. Subordinate divisions at this date were the

, 128th, and 314th Rifle Divisions. Disbanded. Reformed on 13 June 1955 by redesignation of 137th Rifle Corps. Became 43rd Army Corps on 25 June 1957 while at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, Kamchatskaya Oblast. * 46th Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as part of the 61st Army, Bryansk Front. Subordinate divisions at this time were the 356th and

415th Rifle Division The 415th Rifle Division was formed as an infantry division of the Red Army in the autumn of 1941 in the Far Eastern Front. It was considered to be a "sister" division to the 413th, and was one of the divisions of Siberians sent west to help def ...

s. *

54th Rifle Corps 54 may refer to: * 54 (number) * one of the years 54 BC, AD 54, 1954, 2054 * ''54'' (novel), a 2002 novel by Wu Ming * Studio 54, a New York City nightclub from 1977 until 1981 * ''54'' (film), a 1998 American drama film about the club * ''54'' ...

– first appears in Soviet OOB 1 June 1943, as part of the 51st Army, Southern Front. Subordinate divisions at this time were the 87th, 99th, and 302nd Rifle Divisions. * 56th Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as part of the 16th Army, Far Eastern Front. Subordinate divisions at this time were the 79th and 101st Rifle Divisions. Assignment of numeric designation to the Special Rifle Corps that disappears from the Soviet OOB on the same date. * 57th Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 September 1943, as part of the 37th Army, STAVKA Reserve. Subordinate divisions at this time were the 62nd Guards, 92nd Guards, 110th Guards, and

53rd Rifle Division The 53rd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army that served from the early 1930s to the immediate postwar period following World War II. Interwar period The 53rd was formed in 1931 as a territorial division; Ivan Boldin became it ...

s. In early October 1943 the corps, forcing the Dnieper, seized and held a bridgehead on the west bank of the river. On 06.03.1944 elements of the corps, participating in the Odessa Offensive (part of the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive), parts of the corps breached the German defenses on the western bank of the Inhulets River and moved forward. Having stormed the inhabited locality of Lozovatka and after slight regrouping, the corps began the pursuit of the enemy. On March 16, 1944, the corps deterred the counterattacks by the enemy, who was attempting to force back our units from the Ingul River and to hold the river crossings near Sofiyevka with 35–40 tanks and several infantry battalions. On March 22, the units of the corps reached the Southern Bug River. On the night of March 27, (two divisions of) the corps, having crossed the Southern Bug, moved forward under the enemy's heavy fire and captured the large inhabited locality of Akmechet. On April 1, 1944, parts of the corps, acting as a part of the 37th Army, captured the inhabited localities of Stryukovo, Shvartsevo, Korneyevka, and the Tiligul River crossing. On April 5, the divisions of the corps fought a battle for the station of Migayevo. On April 11, 1944, the corps, having been reinforced from the reserve with the 15th Guards Rifle Division and with the support of the

23rd Tank Corps Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute'' Places * 3rd Street (disambiguation) * Third Avenue (disambiguation) * Hig ...

, liberated Tiraspol, forced the

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, and stormed into Varnitsa. Commander: Major General AI Petrakovskii (- 18/01/1944 ) Major General FA Ostashenko (01.19.1944 – military commissar, deputy political commissar Colonel IN Karasev Chief of Staff : V.I. Mineev. On 9 August 1945 the corps, now part of the Soviet Far East command, comprised 52nd and

203rd Rifle Division The 203rd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army. World War II The division was formed in the Kuban near Labinsk, Kurgan and Mikhailovka from February to 20 May 1942. During the second half of May the division l ...

s under General Major A.A. Dakonov. * 68th Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as part of the 57th Army, Southwestern Front. Subordinate divisions at this time were the

19th 19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics 19 is the eighth prime number, and forms a sexy prime with 13, a twin prime with 17, and a cousin prime with 23. It is the third full re ...

, 52nd, and

303rd Rifle Division The 303rd Rifle Division began service as a standard Red Army rifle division shortly after the German invasion, and in its first formation fought in the central part of the Soviet-German front for a few months, taking part in the first offensive su ...

s. *

70th Rifle Corps 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion ...

– first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the Western Front.

71–80 Corps

* 71st Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and as part of the 31st Army, Western Front. *

72nd Rifle Corps 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythol ...

– first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the 68th Army, Western Front. Part of 5th Army, 3rd Belorussian Front, on 1 November 1944. Part of 5th Army,

1st Far East Front First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and reco ...

, on 3 September 1945, comprising 63rd, 215th, and 277th Rifle Divisions. (BSSA) * 73rd Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and as part of the 52nd Army, STAVKA Reserve. * 74th Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and as part of the Moscow Military District. * 75th Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and as part of the Moscow Military District. *

76th Rifle Corps 76th may refer to: * 76th Academy Awards ceremony honored films of 2003 * 76th Air Army, an air army of the Soviet Air Forces from 1949 to 1980 and from 1988 to 1998 * 76th Air Assault Division (Russia), a division of the Russian Airborne Troops ba ...

– first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and as part of the Moscow Military District. In Transcaucasus Military District postwar, until it became the 31st Army Corps in 1955. * 77th Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and as part of the Moscow Military District. In July 1945 in Germany, part of 47th Army, with the 185th, 260th,

328th Rifle Division The 38th Separate Guards Vitebskaya order of Lenin Red Banner order of Suvorov Motor Rifle Brigade is a mechanized infantry brigade of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Eastern Military District. The brigade was formed during the 2009 Ru ...

s. * 78th Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the Ural Military District. * 79th Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the Ural Military District. This corps commanded units that stormed the Reichstag on 2 May 1945. (150th, 171st, 207th Rifle Divisions on July 9, 1945, on formation of

Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Western Group of Forces (WGF),. previously known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (GSOFG). and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG),. were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany. The Group of Soviet Occupati ...

). Disbanded by being redesignated

in 1957 in

Sakhalin Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, r=Sakhalín, p=səxɐˈlʲin; ja, 樺太 ''Karafuto''; zh, c=, p=Kùyèdǎo, s=库页岛, t=庫頁島; Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ, ''Sahaliyan''; Orok: Бугата на̄, ''Bugata nā''; Nivkh: ...

. *

80th Rifle Corps 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

– first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the Trans-Volga Military District.

81–90 Corps

* 81st Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the 68th Army, Western Front. * 82nd Rifle Corps – existed until 13.6.55, when it was renamed 25th Rifle Corps, and 25.6.57 it was renamed 25th AK. Disbanded 6.60. HQ in Nikolayev with the

28th Guards Motor Rifle Division 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

, 34th Gds MSD and 95th Motor Rifle Division in the late 1950s. * 83rd Rifle Corps (119th, 339, 360th Rifle Divisions) as part of 4th Shock Army on 1 December 1944 ( Combat Composition of the Soviet Army (BSSA)) * 84th Rifle Corps * 85th Rifle Corps * 86th Rifle Corps * 87th Rifle Corps – see 33rd Motor Rifle Division#Service in the invasion of Manchuria. On 9 August 1945 comprised

342nd Rifle Division The 342nd Rifle Division began forming in September 1941, as a standard Red Army rifle division, in the Saratov oblast. It arrived at the front southwest of Moscow in December, in time to take part in the winter counteroffensive. During most of 194 ...

and 345th Rifle Division plus 914th Signals Battalion, 967th Engineer Battalion, plus an artillery regiment. Became

1955 and disbanded under that number in 1956. (Feskov et al 2013, 131, 580). * 88th Rifle Corps – Hunchun, August 1945 * 89th Rifle Corps * 90th Rifle Corps – finished war with 43rd Army, comprising 26th Rifle Division, 70th Rifle Division, and 319th Rifle Division. Corps headquarters, as well as 70th and 319th RDs were disbanded in August–September 1946.

91–100 Corps

* 91st Rifle Corps * 92nd Rifle Corps * 93rd Rifle Corps * 94th Rifle Corps (124th, 221st, 358th Rifle Divisions) and 113th Rifle Corps (192, 262, 338th Rifle Divisions) with 39th Army, RVGK on 1 May 1945), * 95th Rifle Corps – disbanded by Stavka VGK Order 11097 of 29.5.45, which established the

. * 96th Rifle Corps * 97th Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 November 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the Moscow Military District. * 98th Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 November 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the Moscow Military District. Disbanded by Stavka VGK Order 11097 of 29.5.45, which established the

. *

99th Rifle Corps The 99th Infantry Division was formed in 1942 and deployed overseas in 1944. The "Checkerboard" or "Battle Babies" division landed at the French port of Le Havre and proceeded northeast to Belgium. During the heavy fighting in the Battle of the ...

– first appears in Soviet OOB 1 November 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the Moscow Military District. Later part of

, and 19th Army. *

100th Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

– first appears in Soviet OOB 1 November 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the Moscow Military District.

101–110 Corps

101st Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

– first appears in Soviet OOB 1 September 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the Trans-Volga Military District. * 102nd Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 November 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the Trans-Volga Military District. * 103rd Rifle Corps – first appears in Soviet OOB 1 November 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the

. Disbanded by Stavka VGK Order 11097 of 29.5.45, which established the

. *

104th Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. ...

– first appears in Soviet OOB 1 November 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the North Caucasus Military District. Included 58th Mountain Rifle Division. In June–July 1945 V.I. Feskov et al 2013 lists the corps, as part of 57th Army, Southern Group of Forces, it comprised the 21st, 74th, 93rd, and 151st Rifle Divisions. By November 1945 the 21st Rifle Division had become the 20th Mechanised Division, and the 151st Rifle Division had either been disbanded or transferred elsewhere. The corps appears to have disbanded on 11 June 1946. *

105th Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. ...

– first appears in Soviet OOB 1 November 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the

. The

193rd Rifle Division The 193rd Tank Division was originally a Red Army infantry division that was reorganised after World War II as a mechanised and then a tank division of the Soviet Army. 1st Formation The original 193rd Rifle Division was established in the Kha ...

was joined with the

354th Rifle Division The 354th Rifle Division was raised in 1941 as a standard Red Army rifle division, and served for the duration of the Great Patriotic War in that role. It took part in the defense of Moscow and the winter counteroffensive of 1941–42, and then in ...

in April to form the 105th Rifle Corps, commanded by General D. F. Alekseev, where it would remain for the duration of the war. *

106th Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length ...

– first appears in Soviet OOB 1 November 1943, as a headquarters with no troops assigned and part of the North Caucasus Military District. 100th and

306th Rifle Division The 306th Rifle Division began its combat path under unusual circumstances. It was partly formed for the first time as a standard Red Army rifle division a few months after the German invasion, but the formation process appears to have been abando ...

s during the battle for Lvov in July 1944. Disbanded by Stavka VGK Order 11097 of 29.5.45, which established the

. *

107th Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length ...

108th Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

– 372nd Rifle Division assigned to this corps from 1 September 1944 to 1 May 1945. *

109th Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...

– on 9 July 1945 on the formation of the

, this corps with 46th, 90th, 372nd Rifle Divisions) was part of 2nd Shock Army. *

110th Rifle Corps Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12 * one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *''El ...

111–120 Corps

* 111th Rifle Corps *

112th Rifle Corps Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12 * one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *''E ...

* 113th Rifle Corps * 114th Rifle Corps * 115th Rifle Corps * 116th Rifle Corps – on 9 July 1945 with the formation of the

, this corps with 86th, 321st, 326th Rifle Division was part of 2nd Shock Army. * 117th Rifle Corps * 118th Rifle Corps * 119th Rifle Corps – Formed 25 January 1944 from forces assigned to the 8th Army. Holm 2015 gives the formation date as 16 December 1943. Soon after the war it arrived at

in the

Turkestan Military District The Turkestan Military District (russian: Туркестанский военный округ (ТуркВО), ''Turkestansky voyenyi okrug (TurkVO)'') was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with it ...

with the 201st, 360th, and

374th Rifle Division The 374th Rifle Division was raised in 1941 as an infantry division of the Red Army, and served for the duration of the Great Patriotic War in that role. It began forming in August 1941 in the Siberian Military District. It joined the fighting fro ...

s. It appears that quickly, on 30 October 1945, the 374th Rifle Division was redesignated the

. On 13 June 1955 it was redesignated 33rd Rifle Corps. *

120th Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. ...

– Headquarters formed during December 1943 in the

. With

of the 1st Ukrainian Front on 1 May 1945, assigned the 106th, 197th, and 329th Rifle Divisions. Awarded the

Order of Suvorov The Order of Suvorov () is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named in honor of Russian Generalissimo Prince Alexander Suvorov (1729–1800). History The Order of Suvorov was originally a Soviet award established on July 29, 1942 ...

. Disbanded during the northern hemisphere summer of 1945.

121–130 Corps

121st Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. ...

– Headquarters formed during December 1943 in the reserve of the Belorussian Front. With

49th Army "Thank God for Mississippi" is an adage used in the United States, particularly in the South, that is generally used when discussing rankings of U.S. states. Since the U.S. state of Mississippi commonly ranks at or near the bottom of such rankin ...

of the 2nd Belorussian Front on 1 May 1945, assigned the 42nd, 191st, and 199th Rifle Divisions. Disbanded during the northern hemisphere summer of 1945. *

122nd Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

– Headquarters formed during December 1943 with the

of the Leningrad Front. With 42nd Army of the Courland Group of Forces of the Leningrad Front on 1 May 1945, assigned the 56th and 85th Rifle Divisions. Disbanded in March 1946. *

123rd Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

– in Summer 1945, the 123rd Rifle Corps arrived in the

Ural Military District The Red Banner Ural Military DistrictHistory of the Ural Military District / Edited by Alexander Egorovsky, Ivan Tutarinov – 1 – Moscow: Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union, 1970 – 352 Pages – 11,50 ...

and its headquarters was established at Kuibyshev. It comprised the 29th, 43rd, and 376th Rifle Divisions. They were established at Shikhany (Saratov Oblast), Kuibyshev, and Serdobsk. In 1946–53 they were reduced into the 10th, 21st, and 48th Rifle Brigades, and the 48th may have been disbanded in 1947. In 1953 the 63rd Mechanised Division was formed on the basis of the 29th Rifle Division at Shikhan. In 1955 the 123rd Rifle Corps became the 40th Rifle Corps, and in May 1957 the 40th Army Corps. That year the 43rd Rifle Division became the 43rd Motor Rifle Division, and the 63rd Mechanised Division the 110th Motor Rifle Division. In November 1964 the 110th was redesigned the

29th Motor Rifle Division 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra a ...

. In 1968 the 29th MRD was moved to Kamen-Rybolov, Primorskiy Krai, in the

Far East Military District The Far Eastern Military District (russian: Дальневосточный военный округ; Dalʹnevostochnyĭ voennyĭ okrug) was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific ...

. The 40th Army Corps was active until at least 1962, and Feskov et al 2013 lists its commanders until October 1960 (p. 508). *

124th Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...

– Headquarters began forming during December 1943 with the

. With 50th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front on 1 May 1945, assigned the 51st, 208th, and

216th Rifle Division The 216th Rifle Division was a division of the Red Army and Soviet Ground Forces. It was the successor to a motorized division of that same number that was destroyed during the Battle of Uman in August 1941. It fought at Kharkov and in Karelia, C ...

s. Disbanded in December 1945. *

125th Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. ...

– in July 1945 in Germany, part of 47th Army, with 60th, 76th, 175th Rifle Divisions. * 126th Light Rifle Corps - Arctic,

* 127th Light Rifle Corps - Arctic,

128th Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length ...

– Headquarters formed during April 1944 with the

. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front on 1 May 1945, assigned the 61st, 130th, and

152nd Rifle Division Fifteen or 15 may refer to: *15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16 *one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015 Music *Fifteen (band), a punk rock band Albums * ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005 * ''15'' (Ani Lorak album) ...

s. Awarded Gumbinnen honorific. Stationed in the

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postwar with the 28th Army and renumbered as the

in 1954. *

129th Rifle Corps 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

– in July 1945, in Germany, part of 47th Army, with 82nd, 132nd, 143rd Rifle Divisions. *

130th Latvian Rifle Corps A rifle corps (russian: стрелковый корпус, translit=strelkovyy korpus) was a Soviet corps-level military formation during the mid-twentieth century. Rifle corps were made up of a varying number of rifle divisions, although the all ...

of the Order of Suvorov. This Red Army national formation was formed on June 5, 1944, shortly before the Red Army attacked Latvia. Their strength was about 15,000 men, which consisted three divisions – 43rd Guards, and 308th Latvian Rifle Division and a Soviet division. The corps commander was Major General Detlavs Brantkalns, Staff headquarters head Major General P. Baumanis, Corps rear commander was Regiment Commander E. Blekis.LATVIAN UNITS IN THE RED ARMY.
/ref> The Latvian Rifle Corps (

2nd Baltic Front The 2nd Baltic Front (russian: 2-й Прибалтийский фронт) was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War. History The 2nd Baltic Front was formed on October 20, 1943 as a result of the renaming of the Baltic ...

) fought in Latvia at

Rēzekne Rēzekne (, ; German: ''Rositten'') is a state city in the Rēzekne River valley in Latgale region of eastern Latvia. It is called ''The Heart of Latgale'' (Latvian ''Latgales sirds'', Latgalian ''Latgolys sirds''). Built on seven hills, Rēz ...

and

Daugavpils Daugavpils (; russian: Двинск; ltg, Daugpiļs ; german: Dünaburg, ; pl, Dyneburg; see other names) is a state city in south-eastern Latvia, located on the banks of the Daugava River, from which the city gets its name. The parts of the c ...

Madona Madona (; german: Modohn) is a town with town rights in the Vidzeme region of Latvia and is the center of the Madona municipality. History The surrounding area of Madona had been populated in earlier times, which is confirmed by discoveries ...

, Krustpils and Riga Offensive (1944) and combat at

Courland Pocket The Courland Pocket (Blockade of the Courland army group), (german: Kurland-Kessel)/german: Kurland-Brückenkopf (Courland Bridgehead), lv, Kurzemes katls (Courland Cauldron) or ''Kurzemes cietoksnis'' (Courland Fortress)., group=lower-alpha ...

. During the Courland battles it was subordinate to 2nd Baltic Front 22nd and later 42nd Army. The Corps units fought against Latvian Legion 19th SS Division units.

131–140 Corps

132nd Rifle Corps Thirteen or 13 may refer to: * 13 (number), the natural number following 12 and preceding 14 * One of the years 13 BC, AD 13, 1913, 2013 Music * 13AD (band), an Indian classic and hard rock band Albums * ''13'' (Black Sabbath album), 2013 * ...

– formed part of 19th Army * 133rd Rifle Corps – may have disbanded at Stanislav (

Ivano-Frankovsk Ivano-Frankivsk ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вськ, translit=Iváno-Frankívśk ), formerly Stanyslaviv ( pl, Stanisławów ; german: Stanislau), is a city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Obl ...

) in September 1945, along with its 104th and

122nd Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

s. *

134th Rifle Corps 134th may refer to: *134th (2/1st Hampshire) Brigade, formation of the Territorial Force of the British Army *134th (Loyal Limerick) Regiment of Foot, infantry regiment of the British Army, created in 1794 and disbanded in 1796 *134th Air Refueling ...

– formed part of 19th Army. Disbanded by Stavka VGK Order 11097 of 29.5.45, which established the

. *

135th Rifle Corps 135th may refer to: *135th (2/1st South Western) Brigade, formation of the Territorial Force of the British Army *135th (Limerick) Regiment of Foot, infantry regiment of the British Army, created and promptly disbanded in 1796 * 135th (Middlesex) B ...

* 136th Rifle Corps *

137th Rifle Corps 137th may refer to: *137th (Calgary) Battalion, CEF, unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War *137th Air Reconnaissance Regiment, air reconnaissance and guidance regiment, part of the SFR Yugoslav Air Force *137th Special ...

– established 5 December 1945 at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, Kamchatskaya Oblast. See als

On 13 June 1955 redesignated

Guards Rifle Corps

1st–40th Guards Rifle Corps formed after June 22, 1941:

1–10 Guards Rifle Corps

1st Guards Special Rifle Corps The 1st Guards Special Rifle Corps (Russian: 1-й особый гвардейский стрелковый корпус ''1-ĭ osobyĭ gvardyeĭskiĭ strelkovyĭ korpus'') was a hastily formed Red Army blocking formation active briefly in 1941, d ...

– was formed in late 1941 * 1st Guards Rifle Corps * 2nd Guards Rifle Corps – still active in the

in 1955 (Feskov et al.). *

3rd Guards Rifle Corps Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute'' Places * 3rd Street (disambiguation) * Third Avenue (disambiguation) * High ...

* 4th Guards Rifle Corps – in September 1943 included 38th Guards Rifle Division, 263rd RD,

267th Rifle Division The 267th Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. First formed in the summer of 1941, the division was destroyed in early 1942 during the Lyuban offensive operation of the siege of Lenin ...

, part of 6th Army, Southwestern Front. From November 1943 commanded by G.E. Afanas'evich, former commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces (

3rd Ukrainian Front The 3rd Ukrainian Front ( Russian: Третий Украинский фронт) was a Front of the Red Army during World War II. It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southweste ...

). From

8th Guards Army The 8th Guards Order of Lenin Combined Arms Army (abbreviated 8th CAA) is an army of the Russian Ground Forces, headquartered in Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, within Russia′s Southern Military District, that was reinstated in 2017 as a succes ...

, the corps headquarters was relocated to

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, with 48th Rifle Division and 36th Guards Mechanised Division from the disbanded 10th Guards Army.Feskov et al 2004, 46. On 30 March 1948 10th Guards Army was renamed 4th Guards Rifle Corps. On 25 June 1957 renamed 4th Guards Army Corps. Disbanded May 1960. * 5th Guards Rifle Corps – (

17th Guards Rifle Division The 17th Guards Rifle Division was created on March 17, 1942, from the first formation of the 119th Rifle Division, in recognition of that division's stalwart defense against German Army Group Center in the Battle of Moscow, and in the subsequent ...

19th Guards Rifle Division The 19th Guards Rifle Division was formed from the first formation of the 366th Rifle Division on March 17, 1942. At this time it was in the 52nd Army of Volkhov Front, taking part in the Lyuban Offensive Operation, which was planned to encircle ...

and 91st Guards Rifle Divisions), 1 May 1945 with 39th Army.tashv.nm.ru
Combat composition of the Soviet Army, 1 May 1945
, accessed October 2011 Same three divisions with 39th Army at Port Arthur in the early 1950s. * 6th Guards Rifle Corps * 7th Guards Rifle Corps Kovenskiy Red Banner – seemingly reformed in March 1955 in the Far East from the

, active since the war ended with the 63rd, 215th and

277th Rifle Division The 277th Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army and later the Soviet Army, formed twice. First formed in the summer of 1941, the division was destroyed in the Battle of Kiev during September of that year. Ref ...

s.V.I. Feskov et al 2004, 46. * 8th Guards Rifle Corps – With

, headquarters in

Polotsk Polotsk (russian: По́лоцк; be, По́лацк, translit=Polatsk (BGN/PCGN), Polack (official transliteration); lt, Polockas; pl, Połock) is a historical city in Belarus, situated on the Dvina River. It is the center of the Polotsk Dist ...

, after the end of the war. In June 1946 became 8th Guards Red Banner Neman Airborne Corps, supervising the 7th, 103rd, and

114th Guards Airborne Division The 114th Guards Airborne Division was a Red Army airborne division. It was first formed as the 14th Guards Airborne Division. In December 1944, it was converted to the 114th Guards Rifle Division and became an airborne unit again in June 1946. Hi ...

s based in Belarus. The corps along with the 114th Guards Airborne Division was disbanded in 1956. *

9th Guards Rifle Corps 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra a ...

– Formed in June 1942 in the Kaluga region on the basis of the 12th Guards Rifle Division. Spent entire war as part of the 61st Army. Took part in the Orel offensive after Kursk, Chernigov-Priyat, and Gomel-Rechitsa Offensive.Keith E. Bonn, Slaughterhouse: the Handbook of the Eastern Front, Aberjona Press, Bedford, PA, 2005, 345. Still active in the

in 1955. Merged with 20th Rifle Corps after the end of the war? *

10th Guards Budapest Rifle Corps The 10th Guards Budapest Rifle Corps was a unit of the Soviet Red Army during the Eastern Front of World War II. It traces its history to the 3rd Guards Rifle Corps, originally activated in January 1942, which was redesignated the 10th Guards Rifle ...

– Took part in liberation of Odessa alongside 37th Rifle Corps, as part of

. At Battle of Debrecen. Circa 1956, 10th Guards 'Budapest' Rifle Corps formerly part of the Odessa Military District with headquarters at Kishinev, became 14th Guards Army.

11–20 Guards Rifle Corps

11th Guards Rifle Corps 11 (eleven) is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12. It is the first repdigit. In English, it is the smallest positive integer whose name has three syllables. Name "Eleven" derives from the Old English ', which is first attested i ...

– still active in the Voronezh Military District in 1955. *

12th Guards Rifle Corps The 12th Guards Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Union's Red Army. Formed in 1942, the corps fought in the Vistula–Oder Offensive, East Pomeranian Offensive and Berlin Offensive. The corps was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for its act ...

– * 13th Guards Rifle Corps – became 13th Guards Army Corps postwar, stationed in

. Disbanded by being redesignated 22nd Army 1990–91. *

14th Guards Rifle Corps 14 (fourteen) is a natural number following 13 and preceding 15. In relation to the word "four" ( 4), 14 is spelled "fourteen". In mathematics * 14 is a composite number. * 14 is a square pyramidal number. * 14 is a stella octangula number. ...

15th Guards Rifle Corps 15 (fifteen) is the natural number following 14 and preceding 16. Mathematics 15 is: * A composite number, and the sixth semiprime; its proper divisors being , and . * A deficient number, a smooth number, a lucky number, a pernicious num ...

– finished the war as part of 10th Guards Army. *

16th Guards Rifle Corps 16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. 16 is a composite number, and a square number, being 42 = 4 × 4. It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being , , and . In English speech, ...

– finished the war as part of

, incorporating the 1st Guards Rifle Division,

11th Guards Rifle Division The 11th Guards Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. It was disbanded in 1946. History 18th Moscow Militia Division Originally formed on 2 July 1941 in the Leningrad region of Moscow. The subordinat ...

, and

31st Guards Rifle Division 31 (thirty-one) is the natural number following 30 and preceding 32. It is a prime number. In mathematics 31 is the 11th prime number. It is a superprime and a self prime (after 3, 5, and 7), as no integer added up to its base 10 digits ...

on 1 May 1945. *

17th Guards Rifle Corps 17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number. Seventeen is the sum of the first four prime numbers. In mathematics 17 is the seventh prime number, which makes seventeen the fourth super-prime, as s ...

* 18th Guards Rifle Corps – Formed April 1943. 18th Guards Red Banner Stanislavsky-Budapest. General Lieutenant Ivan Afonin took command of the corps in February 1943. Assigned to armies including the

, 60th, 1st Guards, 38th Army, 18th, 46th, and 53rd Armies. After the war with Japan the Corps was transferred from Transbaikal to the

(Omsk). Later included the 109th Guards, 67th and 95th MRD (former 109th Guards, 56th and 198th RD) and 411 Guards Corps artillery regiment. Presumably in 1960, it was reorganised as Headquarters

49th Guards Rocket Division "Thank God for Mississippi" is an adage used in the United States, particularly in the South, that is generally used when discussing rankings of U.S. states. Since the U.S. state of Mississippi commonly ranks at or near the bottom of such ranking ...

, Strategic Rocket Forces. *

19th Guards Rifle Corps 19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics 19 is the eighth prime number, and forms a sexy prime with 13, a twin prime with 17, and a cousin prime with 23. It is the third full re ...

– finished the war as part of 10th Guards Army. * 20th Guards Rifle Corps

21–30 Guards Rifle Corps

21st Guards Rifle Corps First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and reco ...

* 22nd Guards Rifle Corps * 23rd Guards Rifle Corps – as of 1 April 45 included 51st Guards Rifle Division and

67th Guards Rifle Division The 67th Guards Rifle Division was formed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in January, 1943, based on the 1st formation of the 304th Rifle Division, and served in that role until after the end of the Great Patriotic War. It was offici ...

in 42nd Army, but was not part of the 42nd Army by 1 MAy 1945.: *

24th Guards Rifle Corps Fourth or the fourth may refer to: * the ordinal form of the number 4 * ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971 * Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision * Fourth (music), a musical interval * ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Sovie ...

– spent much of the war associated with 53rd Army. Commander N.А. Васильев. Disbanded while part of 14 Army, Odessa Military District, Bolgrad, 15 November 1956. (Feskov et al 2013, 133) *

25th Guards Rifle Corps Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five. Fifth or The Fifth may refer to: * Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth" * Fifth column, a political term * Fifth disease, a contagious rash tha ...

* 26th Guards Rifle Corps – Formed 24 April 1943 from 30th Rifle Corps (II), commanded by

Pavel Firsov Pavel (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pa ...

. Fought in

Battle of the Dnieper The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 in Ukraine on the Eastern Front of World War II. One of the largest operations of the war, it involved almost 4,000,000 troops at a time stretched on a front. Over four ...

in October 1943 with the 46th Army. Fought in

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and

with

. * 27th Guards Rifle Corps – May 1945 under

, Central Group of Forces. Headquarters at Nagykanizsa, Hungary, until December 1945. Thereafter transferred to

Konotop Konotop ( uk, Конотоп ) is a city in Sumy Oblast in northeastern Ukraine. Konotop serves as the administrative center of Konotop Raion. Konotop is located about 129 km from Sumy, the oblast administrative center. It is host to K ...

, Sumskaya Oblast, Ukraine. In October 1953 the corps' three independent rifle brigades were expanded into divisions: the 7th independent Guards into the 64th Guards Mechanised Division at Belaya Tserkov, the 9th independent Guards into the 81st Guards Rifle Division at Hlukhiv, and the 12th independent Guards into the

112th Guards Rifle Division Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12 * one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *''E ...

Desna, Kozelets Raion Desna ( uk, Десна) is an urban-type settlement in Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast in northern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Desna settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The settlement's population was 7,180 as of the ...

. In July 1954 the 64th Guards Mechanised Division was redesignated the 14th Guards Tank Division and transferred directly to

Kiev Military District The Kiev Military District (; , abbreviated ) was a military district of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Red Army and Soviet Armed Forces. It was first formed in 1862, and was headquartered in Kiev (Kyiv) for most of its exist ...

control. Renamed as an Army Corps in August 1957 and disbanded in August 1958. *

28th Guards Rifle Corps The 28th Guards Rifle Corps () was an elite Guards rifle corps of the Red Army during World War II. It existed from 1943 to 1956. History The corps headquarters was renamed from that of the 15th Rifle Corps (2nd formation) on 16 April 1943 and b ...

– originally formed as

(second formation). See brief sketch history in Bonn 2005. * 29th Guards Rifle Corps – Originally formed 19 February 1943 as the

(II) as part of 1st Guards Army. Became 29th Guards Rifle Corps 16 April 1943. Transferred to

in May 1943. Fought in Donbass Strategic Offensive (August 1943),

, Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive,

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, Vistula–Oder Offensive, East Pomeranian Offensive, Berlin Offensive. Honorific Lodz for capture of Lodz February 1945, awarded

for Berlin Offensive. * 30th Guards Red Banner Leningrad Rifle Corps – became 30th Guards Army Corps after World War II, and based at

Vyborg Vyborg (; rus, Вы́борг, links=1, r=Výborg, p=ˈvɨbərk; fi, Viipuri ; sv, Viborg ; german: Wiborg ) is a town in, and the administrative center of, Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Karelian Isthmus n ...

in the

for many years until 1998.

31–41 Guards Rifle Corps

* 31st Guards Rifle Corps – part of

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– part of 5th Guards Army, fought in Berlin Offensive * 33rd Guards Rifle Corps – part of 5th Guards Army * 34th Guards Rifle Corps – formed 25 April 1943 from

(III), part of 5th Guards Army since July 1944, fought in Sandomierz–Silesian Offensive, Prague Offensive * 35th Guards Rifle Corps – Although it never fought in the vicinity of Prokhorovka, the 35th Guard Rifle Corps confronted the supportive actions of the III Panzer Corps on the right flank of

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during the Battle of Prokhorovka (precisely, during Operation Roland). * 36th Guards Rifle Corps – Neman Red Banner. At least until the end of the 1950s the corps was part of the

, including the 1st Guards Motor Rifle Division and 5th MRDs and the 30th Mechanised Division (unclear as to whether the two last-mentioned were Guards divisions.)Feskov et al 2004, 45. * 37th Guards Rifle Corps – later 37th Guards Airborne Corps, fought in Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive,

Vienna Offensive The Vienna offensive was an offensive launched by the Soviet 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts in order to capture Vienna, Austria, during World War II. The offensive lasted from 16 March to 15 April 1945. After several days of street-to-street fi ...

and

Prague Offensive The Prague offensive (russian: Пражская стратегическая наступательная операция, Prazhskaya strategicheskaya nastupatel'naya operatsiya, lit=Prague strategic offensive) was the last major military ...

; honorific "Svir" * 38th Guards Rifle Corps – later 38th Guards Airborne Corps, honorific "Vienna", fought in Vienna & Prague Offensives * 39th Guards Rifle Corps – later 39th Guards Airborne Corps, honorific "Vienna", fought in Vienna & Prague Offensives * 40th Guards Rifle Corps – on 9 July 1945 in Germany, this corps was part of

. * 41st Guards Rifle Corps – Estonian Tallinn. Formed 1945 from 8th Estonian Rifle Corps

Notes

Sources

* * V.I. Feskov, et al. ''The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War: 1945–91'', Tomsk: Tomsk University Publishing House, 2004. * * David M. Glantz, ''Stumbling Colossus'', Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. . * David M. Glantz and Jonathan House, ''When Titans Clashed'', Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. . * * * * * * * * * * Robert G. Poirier and Albert Z. Conner, ''The Red Army Order of Battle in the Great Patriotic War'', Novato: Presidio Press, 1985. . * *{{Cite book, url=http://militera.lib.ru/enc/komkory/index.html, title=Великая Отечественная. Комкоры. Военный биографический словарь, publisher=Kuchkovo Pole, year=2006, isbn=5901679083, editor-last=Vozhakin, editor-first=M.G., volume=1, location=Moscow, language=ru, trans-title=The Great Patriotic War: Corps Commanders: Military Biographical Dictionary

External links

* https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/sovietriflecorps.aspx Bill Wilson, Soviet Rifle Corps

List of Soviet rifle corps

Formed before 22 June 1941

1–10 Corps

11–20 Corps

21–30 Corps

31–40 Corps

41–50 Corps

51–60 Corps

61–70 Corps

Named corps

World War II

1–70 Corps

71–80 Corps

81–90 Corps

91–100 Corps

101–110 Corps

111–120 Corps

121–130 Corps

131–140 Corps

Guards Rifle Corps

1–10 Guards Rifle Corps

11–20 Guards Rifle Corps

21–30 Guards Rifle Corps

31–41 Guards Rifle Corps

See also

Notes

Sources

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