3rd Airborne Corps (Soviet Union)

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3rd Airborne Corps 87th Rifle Division (II)
Active	1941–1942
Country	Vasili Glazunov

The 3rd Airborne Corps was an airborne corps of the Red Army in World War II.^[1] The corps was established near Kyiv.

History

Formation of the corps began in spring 1941 in the

The 87th Rifle Division was assigned to the 40th Army. On December 4 the Germans broke through the defensive front of the 40th Army, and building on the success in the north-east, occupied Prilepa and several other localities. The division was tasked to close the breach.

On the morning of December 8 the enemy resumed the offensive on the Kursk-Kastornoye direction. The commander of the 40th army set the division the task to provide cover in the occupied positions, regroup and come out on foot to the area Serebryanka-Tretyakov-Athanasian to stop the fight in the counter offensive of the Germans. Then it had to, in cooperation with other parts to crush in settlements Leninsky and transhipments opposing enemy force and immediately capture the city and Cheremisinovo Shchigry. After 40 km, the division was able to focus in a given area only in the evening on 10 December. The morning of 11 December, she attacked the German positions and captured two villages.

On 22 December, the division attacked in conjunction with the

• Headquarters
• Alexander Rodimtsev
  )
• 6th Airborne Brigade (commander - Colonel Viktor Zholudev)
• 212th Airborne Brigade (commander - Colonel Ivan Zatevakhin)
• 4th Separate Tank Battalion
• Separate anti-aircraft artillery battalion
• logistics units

In addition, it was suggested that the 719th Airfield Support Battalion and the 250th and 327th Air Assault Bomber Aviation Regiments, intended for paradropping personnel,^[4] be included in the corps. However, due to the outbreak of the Operation Barbarossa, these units did not join the corps.

Commanders

• Major General
  Vasili Glazunov (23 June 1941 – 29 August 1941) - appointed at Pervomaisk^[5]
• Colonel Nikolai Grigorevich Travnikov (September 1941 – March 1942)
• Colonel Fedor Alexandrovich Afanasev (February – July 1942).