The 21st Rifle Corps was a corps of the

Soviet Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

. It was part of the Western Front. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. The headquarters formed in the

Moscow Military District The Order of Lenin Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The district was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1968. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military Di ...

in September 1939. Assigned to the WSMD with the 17th, 24th, and 37th Rifle Divisions. The commander was Major General

Vladimir Borisovich Borisov Vladimir Borisovich Borisov (; 15 July 1902 – 30 June 1941) was a Red Army major general. A veteran of the Russian Civil War, Borisov served in command positions at military schools during the 1920s and in the late 1930s rose to division comman ...

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