60th Rifle Corps

Last updated

The 60th Rifle Corps was a Rifle corps of the Red Army.

A rifle corps was a Soviet corps-level military formation during the mid-twentieth century. Rifle corps were made up of a varying number of rifle divisions, although the allocation of three rifle divisions to a rifle corps was common during the latter part of World War II.

The numerical designation "60" appears to have been attached to the formation that quickly became the 4th Airborne Corps after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. The corps was then active 1943–45, ending the war with the 2nd Guards Army. Soon after the end of the war, by December 1945 it was transferred to the Stavropol Military District with headquarters at Pyatigorsk with its wartime divisions. At some later point (sources disagree), the 23rd Bratislava Red Banner Rifle Corps was disbanded by renumbering it as the 60th Rifle Corps.

Operation Barbarossa 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aim of conquering the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, and to also use some Slavs as a slave labour force for the Axis war effort and to annihilate the rest according to Generalplan Ost, and to acquire the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories.

2nd Guards Army

The 2nd Guards Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army that fought in World War II, most notably at Stalingrad.

Pyatigorsk City in Stavropol Krai, Russia

Pyatigorsk Circassian: Psykhwabe (Псыхуабэ) is a city in Stavropol Krai located on the Podkumok River, about 20 kilometers (12 mi) from the town of Mineralnye Vody where there is an international airport and about 45 kilometers (28 mi) from Kislovodsk. Since January 19, 2010, it has been the administrative center of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia. Population: 142,511 (2010 Census); 140,559 (2002 Census); 129,499 (1989 Census).

Within the former 23rd-now-60th Rifle Corps was the 252nd Rifle Division, which became the 15th Separate Rifle Brigade on July 1, 1946. The division's 924th, 928th, and 932nd Rifle Regiments became the 168th, 172nd, and 176th Separate Rifle Battalions, respectively, while the divisional artillery brigade was eliminated. The 787th Artillery Regiment, 23rd Separate Self-Propelled Artillery Battery with the SU-76s, the 332nd Separate Motor Reconnaissance Company, and communications, sapper, and training rifle companies rounded out the brigade. [1] The brigade, with a total personnel strength of 2,010, [2] had all of its units at Nalchik except for the 787th Artillery Regiment at Prokhladny. [3] The brigade was disbanded in May 1947. [4]

Nalchik capital of Kabardino-Balkaria in the Russian North Caucasus

Nalchik is the capital city of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia, situated at an altitude of 550 meters (1,800 ft) in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains; about 100 kilometers (62 mi) northwest of Beslan. It covers an area of 131 square kilometers (51 sq mi). Its population has fluctuated over the years, with the following numbers: 240,203 (2010 Census); 274,974 (2002 Census); 234,547 (1989 Census).

Prokhladny, Prokhladnaya, or Prokhladnoye is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.

Other rifle brigades that formed part of the corps also reported a strength of 2,010 in 1946.

Notes

  1. ↑ Gorshunov 1946, p. 150.
  2. ↑ Sazonov 1946, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Gorshunov 1946, p. 154.
  4. ↑ Tretyakov 2004, pp. 317–318.

Related Research Articles

The 18th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was formed on 21 June 1941 on the basis of HQ Kharkov Military District and armies of the Kiev Special Military District.

The 19th Motor Rifle Division appears to have been formed originally in July 1922 at Tambov in the Moscow Military District as a territorial formation. In 1923 it was awarded the 'Tambov' placename and renamed the 19th Voronezh Rifle Division.

35th Combined Arms Army unit created during World War II, still in service

The 35th Combined Arms Red Banner Army is a field army of the Russian Ground Forces. The army was first formed in July 1941 with the Far Eastern Front. After spending most of World War II guarding the border in Primorsky Krai, the army fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945, and was disbanded shortly after the end of the war. Reformed at Belogorsk when Sino-Soviet tensions rose in the late 1960s in the Far East, the army became part of the Eastern Military District in 2010.

72nd Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces

The 72nd Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. It was previously named the 29th Rifle Division and then the 72nd Guards Rifle Division of the Soviet Ground Forces. in 1957, it became a motor rifle division.

The 75th Guards Rifle Division was a Red Army infantry division during World War II and afterwards, which later became the 75th Guards Tank Division and was finally disbanded in the 1990s.

22nd Mechanised Brigade (Ukraine)

The 22nd Mechanised Brigade was a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces from 2000 to 2003. However most of its historical traditions stem from the 66th Guards Rifle Division, originally a formation of the Red Army and later of the Soviet Ground Forces.

103rd Guards Airborne Division Soviet airborne division

The 103rd Guards Airborne Division was a division of the Soviet Airborne Troops. It was established in 1946 and disbanded in 1993, a year after its transfer to the Armed Forces of Belarus. Its lineage is continued by a currently active brigade of the Belarusian Special Forces, the 103rd Guards Airborne Brigade.

The 372nd Rifle Red Banner Novgorod Division was a division of the Red Army during the Second World War.

252nd Rifle Division World War Two Soviet Rifle Division

The 252nd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II.

The 34th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army during and before World War II. The division was formed in 1923. It fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945. Postwar, it became the 11th Machine Gun Artillery Division.

The 6th Guards Airborne Division was a Red Army airborne division that fought as infantry during World War II.

The 51st Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Army, formed twice. Its first formation was formed during the Russian Civil War and fought in the Perekop-Chongar Offensive in 1920. It also fought in the Soviet invasion of Poland, Winter War and World War II. During World War II, it fought in the Battle of Rostov, Barvinkove-Losowaja Operation and Second Battle of Kharkov before being destroyed at the Battle of Voronezh. Officially disbanded on 28 November 1942, the division was reformed on 15 April 1943 from the 15th Rifle Brigade. The 2nd formation fought in Operation Bagration and the Battle of Königsberg. It appears to have been disbanded in 1946.

Aleksei Aleksandrovich Grechkin

Aleksei Aleksandrovich Grechkin was a Soviet army commander.

The 23rd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 4th Army. It took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.

The 212th Airborne Brigade was an airborne brigade of the Soviet Airborne Troops, formed twice.

70th Rifle Division Wikimedia disambiguation page

The 70th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army and briefly of the Soviet Army, formed twice.

12th Rifle Corps

The 12th Rifle Corps was an infantry corps of the Red Army during the interwar period and World War II, formed four times.

The 111th Rifle Corps was an infantry corps of the Red Army during World War II.

The 35th Guards Rifle Corps was a rifle corps of the Red Army during World War II that became part of the Soviet Army during the Cold War.

68th Mountain Rifle Division

The 68th Mountain Rifle Division was a mountain infantry division of the Red Army before and during World War II.

References

The Central Archives of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation are located in Podolsk, just south of the city of Moscow.

International Standard Book Number Unique numeric book identifier

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier which is intended to be unique. Publishers purchase ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.