37th Guards Rifle Corps
37th Guards Airborne Corps
Active
1944–1956
Country
Soviet Union
Branch
Red Army
Type
infantry, airborne
Size
corps
Engagements
World War II
Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive
Vienna Offensive
Prague Offensive
Battle honours
Svir Order of the Red Banner
Commanders
Notable commanders
Pavel Mironov
Vasily Margelov
Military unit
The 37th Guards Airborne Corps was a Red Army airborne corps. The corps was established as the 37th Guards Rifle Corps on 19 January 1944. In August, it was converted into an airborne corps. On 18 December, it became an infantry corps again. The corps was converted to an airborne corps on 10 June 1946 and disbanded in June 1956.[1]
Demitrov in the Moscow Military District. It was part of the 37thGuardsAirborneCorps, 9th Guards Army on the Karelian Front (May 1944), on the Svir river...
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the 98th Guards Rifle Division without seeing combat in World War II. The division was reformed in 1944 as part of the 37thGuardsAirborneCorps, and was...
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Division, while serving with 35th Guards Rifle Corps, 27th Army, Carpathian Military District. The 3rd GuardsAirborne Division was formed on 8 December...
the 12th GuardsAirborne Division as part of the 38th GuardsAirborneCorps in December 1943. In December 1944, it became the 105th Guards Rifle Division...
its first airborne operation. On 5 December 1945 the division became the 124th Guards Rifle Division, still with the 18th Guards Rifle Corps in the East...
of the 37th's drive, Krueger called for an airborne force to land near Aparri and move southwards to meet the advancing 37th. The 11th Airborne Division...
was part of the 38th GuardsAirborneCorps. On 8 December 1944, it became the 104th Guards Rifle Division, part of the 9th Guards Army. In March 1945,...
the VII Corps southern flank, and the 37th Tank Battalion was protecting the southern flank of the division. There was nothing south of the 37th except...
commander of the 76th GuardsAirborne Division in April in Pskov. Between 1950 and 1954, he was the commander of the 37thGuardsAirborneCorps. In May 1954,...
June 1946, the 106th Guards Rifle Division was converted to an airborne division at Tula, part of the new 38th GuardsAirborneCorps. On 1 October 1948...
originally a corps headquarters and three divisions of the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV), active in the district after the war. 37thGuardsAirborneCorps had the...
reorganized as the 126th Guards Rifle Division at the end of 1945, and was disbanded in late 1946. The 10th GuardsAirborne Division was formed on 8 December...
included the 6th Guards Rifle Division, 5th AirborneCorps, 4th Tank Brigade, 11th Tank Brigade, the Tula military school, several Border Guard Regiments, two...