10th Rifle Corps

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10th Rifle Corps
Russian: 10-й стрелковый корпус
ActiveJuly 1922 – June 1960
CountrySoviet Union
BranchRed Army
Engagements

The 10th Rifle Corps (

Second World War
.

Interwar period

The corps was formed by an order dated 12 July 1922 in the

Soviet occupation of Lithuania, where it was initially headquartered at Šiauliai as part of the Baltic Special Military District from July, moving to Telšiai in August.[4]

The First Formation was part of the operational army during

World War II
from June 22, 1941 to September 7, 1941.

Cross-border fighting in Lithuania and Latvia (1941)

Further information:
Baltic Operation (1941)

On June 22, 1941, when the German invasion of the Soviet Union,

48th and 90th Rifle Divisions,[5] under Major General Ivan Nikolaev. On the right-flank of the corps, the 10th Rifle Division held positions on the border from Palanga to Shvekshny to the right of the 67th Rifle Division of the 27th Army. On its left, the 90th Rifle Division defended a line 30 kilometers wide, extending south to a junction with troops of the 125th Rifle Division of the 11th Rifle Corps. The 48th Rifle Division was still moving up and had not yet reached the border. The corps numbered 25,480 men, 453 guns and mortars and 12 light tanks
.

Opposing the corps and larger Soviet forces were the German

XXXVIII Army Corps, and on the left wing – the tanks of the XXXXI Motorized Corps
.

When the invasion began, German troops struck two major blows to the 10th's flanks: the first by the

Mazeikiai – Kurtuvėnai and then on Riga. By that time, the 90th Rifle Division had virtually ceased to exist and in Riga the 22nd Motor Rifle Division NKVD
was added to the corps. Within three days of the case were fighting for Riga, but July 1, 1941 finally left the city.

Its next major engagement was the Tallinn frontline defensive operation (1941).

The corps' headquarters was disbanded on September 14.

The corps was destroyed in the early fighting of Operation Barbarossa but reformed twice. It was reformed in October 1942, but disbanded in December, then reformed in February 1943, serving until the war ended in May 1945.[6]

Later formations and postwar

After the war, the corps arrived in the Urals Military District comprising the 91st, 279th, and 347th Rifle Divisions. Active in 1948 with three rifle brigades (12th, 14th and 28th), but in June 1957 became 10th Army Corps.[7] In the early 1950s, it may have included the 2552nd Artillery Regiment.[8]

In 1956, the corps moved from the Urals to the Baltic.

26th Guards Motor Rifle Division and 119th Motor Rifle Division, but was disbanded in (June) 1960.[10] It had its headquarters at Vilnius
.

References

Citations

  1. ^ "10th Rifle Corps". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
  2. ^ ZapSibVO Order of July 12, 1922 No. 36/10.
  3. ^ Vasilievsky AM The point of all life
  4. ^ Dvoinykh, Kariaeva, Stegantsev, eds. 1993, pp. 24.
  5. ISBN 0-7006-0879-6
    (pg. 261)
  6. ^ Keith E. Bonn (ed), Slaughterhouse, Aberjona Press, 2005, 340.
  7. ^ *V.I. Feskov, Golikov V.I., K.A. Kalashnikov, and S.A. Slugin, The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II, from the Red Army to the Soviet (Part 1: Land Forces). (В.И. Слугин С.А. Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской (часть 1: Сухопутные войска)) Томск, 2013, 132. [1] Improved version of 2004 work with many inaccuracies corrected.
  8. ^ Feskov et al 2004.
  9. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 447.
  10. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 442.

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