13th Rifle Corps
The 13th Rifle Corps (
On October 12, 1922, the Corps began forming in the Turkestan Front. Alexander Todorsky became the corps commander. The corps participated in the suppression of the Basmachi movement and was disbanded in 1935.
1922–1935 formation
On October 12, 1922, the Commander of the Turkestan Front issued Order No. 345 on the formation of the 13th Rifle Corps from units located in the Bukhara People's Republic and Samarkand Oblast. The headquarters was established in the city of Novaya Bukhara.[1] The corps was led by its Revolutionary Military Council.[2]
On October 12, 1922, the commander of the Turkestan Front issued Order No. 1436/575, in which the headquarters of the abolished Bukhara group of troops turned on the formation of Management 13th RC.[3][4]
In April–May 1923, the Revolutionary Military Council in housing were subject to Bukhara of the Red Army.[3][4]
Corps units were involved in the fight against Basmachis in Bukhara and Samarkand Oblasts. The Turkestan Front became the Central Asian Military District in June 1926, and the corps its assignment with the latter. Its headquarters moved to Samarkand in October 1926.[2]
The corps headquarters was relocated to Kazan when it transferred to the Volga Military District in September 1927. Its headquarters was again shifted to Sverdlovsk in 1931 and there it briefly became part of the Ural Military District in July 1935 before being disbanded in the same month.[2]
First wartime formation (1936–1941)
The corps was reformed in the
Reformed 1936, in
Second wartime formation (1942) and 31st Army Corps service
The corps headquarters was formed again on 13 October 1942 as part of the
For most of 1945, the corps included the
The 13th Mountain Rifle Corps was 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).[5]
In February 1962 the 145th Mountain Rifle Division was renamed the 145th Motor Rifle Division.[5]
On 1 June 1962 the 10th Guards Mountain Rifle Division was renamed 10th Guards Motor Rifle Division.
Formations in 1970 included:
- 10th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Akhaltsikhe, Georgian SSR)
- Adjar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic)
- 147th Motor Rifle Division (Akhalkalaki, Georgian SSR)
- Georgian SSR)
- Adjar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic)
Commanders
- May 1923 - April 1925 : Alexander Todorsky
- April 1924 – November 1925: Ivan Fedko
- July 1930 – 1933?: Vitaly Primakov
- August 1932 – January 1934: Semyon Uritsky
- February 1934 – 1935: Andrei Sazontov
- February 1938 - August 1941 Nikolai Kirillov (Killed in action)
References
Citations
- ^ Stepanov 2009, p. 63.
- ^ a b c d Dvoinykh, Kariaeva & Stegantsev 1993, pp. 27–29.
- ^ a b TSGSA . F.895 , 672 etc.; 1922 - 1926.
- ^ a b Website "Archives of Russia ." Central State Archive of the Soviet Army.
- ^ a b c d Feskov et al. 2013, p. 535.
- Combat composition of the Soviet Army, 1945, via Soldat.ru.
- ^ Feskov et al. 2013, pp. 51, 53, 55.
Bibliography
- Dvoinykh, L.V.; Kariaeva, T.F.; Stegantsev, M.V., eds. (1993). Центральный государственный архив Советской армии: Путеводитель [A Guide to the Central State Archive of the Soviet Army] (in Russian). Vol. 2. Minneapolis: Eastview Publications. ISBN 1879944030. Archived from the originalon 30 August 2017.
- Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.
- Stepanov, Alexey (2009). "Эмблемы и шифровки РККА 1922—1924. Часть I" [Badges and lettering on collar tabs of the Red Army, 1922–1924: Part I]. Старый Цейхгауз [Old Zeughaus] (in Russian) (4 (32)). Fond "Russkiye Vityazi": 47–66. ISSN 2223-5175.
Further reading
- Military Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow, Military Publishing House (Voenizdat), 1984 . S.757 -Turkestan Front.