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, after ...

. It was part of the 14th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Its initial commander was Major General

Roman Ivanovich Panin Roman Ivanovich Panin (; 28 September 1897 – 1 June 1949) was a Soviet major general from during World War II. An Imperial Russian Army junior officer in World War I, he joined the Red Army in 1919. Panin fought in the Russian Civil War and cont ...

. 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 Di ...

. 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 Fron ...

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 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

* 122nd Rifle Division

Commanders

* Major General

( 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