The 42nd 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

14th Army Fourteenth Army or 14th Army may refer to: * 14th Army (German Empire), a World War I field Army * 14th Army (Wehrmacht), a World War II field army * Italian Fourteenth Army * Japanese Fourteenth Army, a World War II field army, in 1944 converted ...

. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Its initial commander was Major General Roman Ivanovich Panin. The corps was disbanded on 14 October 1941. The Corps Was formed a second time in May 1943 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 D ...

. The

399th Rifle Division The 399th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army. Partially raised in 1941, this formation was abandoned until a second formation began in February 1942, this time in the far east of Siberia. The formation lasted until July, after ...

was part of the 42nd Rifle Corps, 48th Army of the

3rd Belorussian Front The 3rd Belorussian Front () was a Front of the Red Army during the Second World War. The 3rd Belorussian Front was created on 24 April 1944 from forces previously assigned to the Western Front. Over 381 days in combat, the 3rd Belorussian Fr ...

In Germany in May 1945.

Combat composition of the Soviet Army ''Boevoi sostav Sovetskoi armii'' ("Combat composition of the Soviet army") is an official Second World War Soviet Army order of battle published in five parts from 1963 through 1990 by the Voroshilov Academy of the General Staff and Voenizdat. ...

, 1 May 1945 The division was disbanded in August 1945, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Shopovalov after Kazakevich left the division on 7 July 1945.

Organization

* 104th Rifle Division * 122nd Rifle Division

Commanders

* Major General Roman Ivanovich Panin ( 14.03.1941 - 23.08.1941), * Major General Stepan Ilyich Morozov (24.08.1941 - 14.10.1941), * Major General, from 29.10.1943 - Lieutenant General Konstantin Stepanovich Kolganov, (01.06.1943 - 09.05.1945)

References

Citations

Bibliography

* Rifle corps of the Soviet Union {{Russia-mil-stub