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The 21st Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the Western Front. It took part in the Great Patriotic War.
| 21st Rifle Corps | |
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| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Branch | Soviet Red Army |
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The headquarters formed in the Moscow Military District in September 1939.[1] Assigned to the WSMD with the 17th, 24th, and 37th Rifle Divisions.[2] The commander was Major General Vladimir Borisovich Borisov.
The corps was disbanded in summer 1945.[3]
References edit
Citations edit
- ^ Meltyukhov 2008, p. 479.
- ^ Glantz 1998, p. 263.
- ^ Feskov et al. 2013, p. 132.
Bibliography edit
- Glantz, David (1998). Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0700617890.
- Meltyukhov, Mikhail (2008). Упущенный шанс Сталина. Схватка за Европу: 1939-1941 гг [Stalin's Missed Chance: The Struggle for Europe, 1939–1941] (in Russian). Moscow: Veche. ISBN 978-5-9533-2697-1.
- 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.
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