63rd Rifle Corps information

The 63rd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army during World War II, formed twice. The corps headquarters was first formed during September 1939 in the...

given deputy command of the 10th Rifle Corps and in May 1944 command of the 63rd Rifle Corps. Bakunin led the corps until 1947, when he retired. Bakunin...

redeployed northward to join Southern Front, where it was assigned to the 63rd Rifle Corps in 44th Army in mid-September as the Front (soon re-designated 4th...

the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, began on 22 June 1941, the 63rd Rifle Corps was rushed to the front as part of the 21st Army of the Western Front...

component of the Front: 25th Mechanised Corps, 66th Rifle Corps, 63rd Rifle Corps, 21st Rifle Corps, 67th Rifle Corps. The new Front's air component was 136...

ISBN 0-7006-1208-4. Soviet Rifle Division, 22 June 1941 Soviet Tank Division, 22 June 1941 Soviet Cavalry Division, 22 June 1941 Soviet Mountain Rifle Division, 22...

early 1948, joining the 14th Guards Rifle Corps. On 4 June 1957 it was redesignated as the 63rd Guards Motor Rifle Division. At the same time, the 13th...

commanded the 63rd Rifle Corps during the Crimean Offensive, then transferred to command the 71st Rifle Corps before leading the 36th Guards Rifle Corps from early...

Front), Lt. Gen. M. G. Yefremov, requested permission to withdraw his 63rd Rifle Corps back to more defensible positions on the east bank of the Dniepr, but...

Motorized Rifle Division NKVD Internal Troops until June 25, 1942, when the division joined the Red Army and was named the 63rd Rifle Division. (The 63rd Mountain...

Guards Rifle Corps (33rd Guards, 91st, 346th RD), 10th Rifle Corps (216th, 357th, 279th Rifle Divisions), 63rd Rifle Corps (263rd, 267th, 417th Rifle Divisions)...

reduced to a brigade, which became the 63rd Mechanised Division in 1953. In 1957 it became the 110th Motor Rifle Division before being renumbered as the...

War it was designated the 30th Guards Rifle Corps. It was formed in April 1943 on the basis of three guards rifle divisions, which had distinguished themselves...

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...

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1st Rifle Corps at Novgorod with the 16th and 56th Rifle Divisions, and the 19th Rifle Corps at Leningrad with the 4th Turkestan and 20th Rifle Divisions...

the division became part of the 63rd Rifle Corps. After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the division and its corps were sent to the front, joining...

Artillery Regiment The division was considered a "sister" to the 63rd Guards Rifle Division, which was forming in the same area at the same time. The...

as part of the 63rd Rifle Corps and 21st Army. Of the 12,000 men assigned to the division and despite the support of the 546th Corps Artillery Regiment...

651st Mountain Rifle Regiment) 33rd Guards Artillery Regiment (from 146th Mountain Artillery Regiment) 6th Guards Antitank Battalion (from 63rd Antitank Battalion)...

Union), 20th Rifle Corps - on 1 January 1945; Stavka, 28th Army, 20th Rifle Corps - on 01.04.1945. 164th Guards Rifle Regiment 166th Guards Rifle Regiment...

V.Ya. Kolpakchi 63rd Army (1 Guards rifle and 5 rifle divisions) - Lt. Gen. V.I. Kuznetsov 64th Army (6 rifle divisions and 2 rifle brigades) - Lt. Gen...