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22nd Rifle Corps | |
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22-й стрелковый корпус | |
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Country | Soviet Union |
Branch | Red Army (Soviet Army from 1946) |
Size | Corps |
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Notable commanders | Gustav Jonson Alexander Ksenofontov Konstantin Provalov Vasily Sergatskov |
The 22nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army, formed thrice. It was initially formed from the Estonian Army after the Soviet occupation of that country in June 1940. The corps was destroyed during the Baltic Operation. After large-scale desertions of its troops, the corps disbanded in September 1941. Its soldiers were used in construction battalions in the Urals, where many of them died. The corps was reformed in November 1942 with the Transcaucasian Front. It fought in the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive, Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive, Sandomierz–Silesian Offensive and the Prague Offensive during the war. The corps was disbanded in the summer of 1945. Reformed in 1949 in the Transcaucasian Military District, it was disbanded in 1956.