22nd Rifle Corps

22nd Rifle Corps
22-й стрелковый корпус
Active
  • 1st formation: June 1940 – September 1941
  • 2nd formation: November 1942 – summer 1945
  • 3rd formation: 1949–1956
CountrySoviet Union
BranchRed Army (Soviet Army from 1946)
SizeCorps
Commanders
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.