34th Rifle Corps

34th Rifle Corps
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Branch	Soviet Red Army
Engagements	Eastern Front (World War II) Operation Barbarossa

The 34th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 19th Army. Towards the end of the 1939-40 Winter War with Finland it took part in General Semyon Timoshenko's offensive in the Karelian Isthmus. ^[1] It took part in the Great Patriotic War. It was only partially mobilised by late July 1941 when it was fed piecemeal into combat against invading German forces at Vitebsk. ^[2]

Organization

• 129th Rifle Division
• 158th Rifle Division
• 171st Rifle Division

Commanders

• Divisional commander Vasily Matveyevich Gonin (until February 1940)
• Divisional commander Konstantin Pyadyshev (February 1940 to May 1940)
• Division commander Prokofy Romanenko (May 1940 to June 1940)
• Major General Raphael Khmelnitsky (June 21, 1940 to August 9, 1941)
• Colonel Adrian Zakharovich Akimenko (July 24 to August 10, 1941)

References

1. Dyke, Carl Van (11 January 2013). The Soviet Invasion of Finland, 1939-40. Routledge. p. 154. ISBN   978-1-136-31157-4.
2. Glantz, David M. (1998). Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. University Press of Kansas. p. 208. ISBN   978-0-7006-0879-9.