It was part of the "operational army" or "active army" (ru:Действующая армия и флот) from April 12, 1942, to May 9, 1945.[1]
History
Husband and wife Senior Sergeants Aleksandr (mechanic-driver) and Polina Korneichuk (gunner-radioman), who fought together in the same T-34 tank crew of the 39th Tank Brigade in late 1943T-34-85 tanks of the corps' 3rd Tank Brigade passing through the Vienna suburb of Schwechat during the Vienna offensive, April 1945
At the end of May 1942, during the battle and after large numbers of Soviet troops had been encircled, near the village of Lozovenka, Barvinkove Raion(?), the brigade was took part in the breakthrough from the Barvenkovo pocket as part of the combined tank group of Major General Kuzmin, which consisted of the remnants of 5th Guards, 7th, 37th, 38th, and 43rd tank brigades, as well as the remnants of the 21st and 23rd Tank Corps. The breakthrough was accompanied by very heavy losses for the Soviet troops.[3]
In the summer of 1945, the corps was transformed into a tank division, the 23rd Tank Division.[4] Attached to the 52nd Army, it was garrisoned at Ovruch, in the Carpathian Military District.[5] In 1946, the 52nd Army became the 8th Tank Army.[6] It was renamed 6065th Base on July 1, 1990.[7]
V.I. Feskov; Golikov V.I.; K.A. Kalashnikov; S.A. Slugin (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской (часть 1: Сухопутные войска)[The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II, from the Red Army to the Soviet (Part 1: Land Forces)] (in Russian). Tomsk.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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