12th Rifle Corps
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Country | Soviet Union |
Branch | Red Army (Soviet Army from 1946) |
Type | Infantry |
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Notable commanders | Jan Lufi |
The 12th Rifle Corps (Russian: 12-й стрелковый корпус) 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
The corps was again reformed in late 1942 as part of the
Prewar formations
The corps was formed as part of the
The 12th Rifle Corps was again formed as part of the
The 12th Rifle Corps was formed for a third time as part of the
The corps began forming the
The 32nd Division was transferred to the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army during March 1934, leaving the corps with three divisions. The Saratov-based 22nd Aviation Detachment joined the corps on 1 October of that year. Corps units repaired track and restored telegraph communications damaged by a November 1935 landslide at a station of the Ryazan-Ural Railway. During the mid-1930s, Tkachev was succeeded in command by Mikhail Yefremov, Stepan Kalinin, and Vladimir Kolpakchi. By 1935, it included the 31st (Stalingrad) and 53rd (Engels) Territorial Rifle Divisions, in addition to the 12th Corps Artillery Regiment at Saratov.[4] The corps headquarters was transferred to the Transbaikal Military District in September 1939 due to rising tensions with Japan and located at Borzya.[1][3] Among its units was the 109th Rifle Division, which became a motorized division in early 1940 and transferred to the 5th Mechanized Corps in midyear.[5]
It was commanded by Major General Daniil Petrov from 18 January 1941. By 22 June it included the 65th and 94th Rifle Divisions and was directly controlled by the district headquarters.[6] During a reorganization of the forces stationed in the Transbaikal Military District, the corps was disbanded on 27 July.[7] The units of the corps were used to form the 36th Army.[8]
Second wartime formation and postwar
The corps headquarters was formed by an order of 13 October 1942,
From April, the corps was directly subordinated to the headquarters of the
In 1946, its headquarters was transferred to
During the early 1960s, the 42nd Guards became a training unit and was subordinated to the North Caucasus Military District, and by the end of the decade the corps headquarters relocated to
Formations at the end of the 1980s
- Corps Directorate [Headquarters], 411th separate security and support company (Krasnodar)
- Maikop), Commander Dorofeev, Alexander Anatolyevich
- 113th Motor Rifle Division of the cadre (Hot Key)
- The 156th Motor Rifle Division of the cadre. The division in 1987 was reorganized into the 880th Territorial Training Centre (TTC). In 1989, the 880th TTC was reorganized into the 5383rd BKhVT.[24] (Novorossiysk)
- 99th Rocket Brigade (Krasnodar)
- Maikop), Commander Markaryan, Pyotr Oganezovich.
- 214th Engineer-Sapper Proskurovskaya Red Banner, orders of Bohdan Khmelnitsky and the Red Star Brigade
- material support team (Krasnodar)
- 943rd Reactive Artillery Regiment[citation needed] (Maikop)
- 1128th anti-tank artillery regiment (Maikop)
- 162nd Engineer Regiment (Krasnodar)
- 573rd Separate Reconnaissance Artillery Battalion (Maikop)
- 64th separate communications battalion (Krasnodar)
- 170th separate air defense radio engineering battalion (Krasnodar)
- 444th Separate Electronic Warfare Battalion (Krasnodar)
- 5157th repair and restoration base (Slavyansk-on-Kuban)
Commanders
The following officers are known to have commanded the second wartime formation of the 12th Rifle Corps and the 12th Army Corps:[23]
- Major General Georgy Kuparadze (December 1942 – June 1946)
- Lieutenant General Ivan Fedyunkin (30 December 1948 – 28 July 1949)
- Lieutenant General Mikhail Panchenko (28 July 1949 – 15 December 1950)
- Major General Alexander Shchagin (11 January 1951 – 18 May 1953)
- Lieutenant General Sergey Vladimirovich Sokolov (18 May 1953 – 16 May 1954)
- Major General Viktor Glebov (17 June 1954 – 11 June 1956)
- Lieutenant General Nikolay Lyashchenko (12 June 1956 – February 1958)
- Major General Gennady Obaturov (February 1958 – June 1960)
- Lieutenant General Fyodor Rykalov (27 June 1966 – 3 February 1970)
- Lieutenant General Ivan Kravchenko (4 February 1970 – 15 May 1973)
- Major General Lev Zaytsev (1979 – 1982)
- Lieutenant General Igor Puzanov (1990 – May 1992)
References
Citations
- ^ a b c Dvoinykh, Kariaeva & Stegantsev 1993, p. 25–26.
- ^ Cherushev & Cherushev 2012, pp. 123–125.
- ^ a b c d Lukyanov 2018, pp. 125–127.
- ^ "Дислокация войсковых частей, штабов, управлений, учреждений и заведений Рабоче-Крестьянской Красной Армии по состоянию на 1 июля 1935 года" [Stationing of military units, headquarters, directorates, institutions and establishments of the Red Army as of 1 July 1935] (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow: 4th Directorate of the Staff of the Red Army. 1 July 1935. p. 14.
- ^ Drig, Yevgeny (12 March 2007). "5 механизированный корпус" [5th Mechanized Corps]. mechcorps.rkka.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 28 June 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ Gurkin & Malanin 1963, p. 13.
- ^ a b Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964, pp. 11–12.
- ^ Ivanov 2004, pp. 130–131.
- ^ a b "Боевые характеристики на 45 А, 12 и 13 ск и 15 кк" [Combat Characteristics of the 45th Army, 12th and 13th Rifle Corps, and the 15th Cavalry Corps]. Pamyat Naroda (in Russian). Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. 4 October 1943. p. 6. Retrieved 31 March 2019. (Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence, fond 47, opus 1063, file 6)
- ^ Gurkin, Shchitov-Izotov & Volkov 1966, p. 218.
- ^ Gurkin, Shchitov-Izotov & Volkov 1966, pp. 242–243.
- ^ Vozhakin 2006, pp. 310–311.
- ^ Pokrovsky 1956, p. 11.
- ^ Gurkin et al. 1972, p. 28.
- ^ Gurkin et al. 1972, pp. 52, 75, 99.
- ^ a b "Карта дислокации войск ЗакФ по состоянию на 1.IV.43 г." [Stationing map of the troops of the Transcaucasian Front for April 1943]. Pamyat Naroda (in Russian). Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. April 1943. Retrieved 31 March 2019. (Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence, fond 47, opus 1063, file 602)
- ^ a b "Боевая характеристика 296 сд" [Combat Characteristics of the 296th Rifle Division]. Pamyat Naroda (in Russian). Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. 15 September 1943. p. 1. Retrieved 31 March 2019. (Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence, fond 47, opus 1063, file 603)
- ^ Gurkin et al. 1972, pp. 125, 151, 180, 208, 238, 267, 294, 323.
- ^ Gurkin et al. 1988, p. 32.
- ^ Gurkin et al. 1988, pp. 61, 91, 122, 152, 181, 210, 241.
- ^ Gurkin et al. 1988, pp. 273, 304, 334, 364.
- ^ Gurkin et al. 1990, pp. 37, 72, 107, 144, 181.
- ^ a b c Feskov et al. 2013, pp. 522–523.
- ^ Feskov et al. 2013, p. 522.
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