The 4th Artillery Berlin Red Banner Breakthrough Corps of the RGK — (4 акп РГК) was a

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, artillery breakthrough corps

Reserve of the Supreme High Command The Reserve of the Supreme High Command (Russian: Резерв Верховного Главнокомандования; also known as the '' Stavka'' Reserve or RVGK ( ru , РВГК)) comprises reserve military formations and units; the Sta ...

of the

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 ...

during the

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History

The 4th Artillery Corps of the

(RVGK) was formed on April 24,

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, and on the basis of the resolution of the

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(GKO) of

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1943. During the war it fought as part of the

Central Front The Central Front was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War formed on July 24, 1941. The Central Front describes either of two distinct organizations during the war. The first entity existed for just a month during th ...

;

1st Belorussian Front The 1st Belorussian Front (Russian: Пéрвый Белорусский фронт, ''Perviy Belorusskiy front'', also romanized " Byelorussian") was a major formation of the Soviet Army during World War II, being equivalent to a Western army ...

; and

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. The corps' formations, units, and awards included: * 5th Artillery Kalinkovichi Red Banner Breakthrough Division * 6th Artillery Mozyr Order of Lenin Red Banner Breakthrough Division * 12th Artillery Red Banner Orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Breakthrough Division * 5th Guards Mortar Kalinkovichskaya Red Banner, Order of the Suvorov Division * 34th Guards Artillery Perekop Red Banner, Order of the Suvorov Division (after its formation in June-July 1945) * 3rd Guards Anti-tank Artillery Brest-Warsaw, Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Kutuzov Brigade * 4th Guards Anti-Tank Artillery Rechitsko-Radom twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Brigade * 20th separate anti-tank artillery Stalingrad-Rechitsa Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Brigade * 1002nd Separate Order of the Red Star Signals Battalion * 821st Separate Reconnaissance Artillery Kalinkovichsky Red Banner Orders of Bohdan Khmelnitsky and Alexander Nevsky Division. On 9 May 1945, at the end of the war in Europe, the corps was made up of the 5th Breakthrough Artillery Division; the 12th Breakthrough Artillery Division; the 5th Guards Mortar Division (multiple rocket launchers); the 1002nd Communications Battalion; the 821st Separate Reconnaissance Artillery Battalion; and the 2355th military postal station. The 34th Artillery Division was formed within the corps in 1945. By that time the corps was part of the

Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Western Group of Forces (WGF),. previously known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (GSOFG). and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG),. were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany. The Group of Soviet Occupati ...

. In 1953, the 4th Artillery Corps was disbanded.

References

* V.I. Feskov et al., The Red Army in victories and defeats 1941-1945, Chapter 5. Artillery of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War, 255-312 * Ministerstva Oborony SSSR, Glavnoye Upravleniye Kadrov, Komandovaniye Korpusnogo I Divizionnogo Zvena Sovetskikh Vooruzhennykh Sil Perioda Velikoy Otechestvennoy Voyny 1941-45gg. ommanders of Corps and Divisions of the Soviet Armed Forces in the Great Patriotic War (Moscow: Izdaniye Voyennoy Akademii M.V. Frunze 1964) responsible: A.I. Kalabin. Supplement to the book "Military Personnel of the Soviet State in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." * ''The leading political composition of the period of the Great Patriotic War'' *

External links

Artillery corps of the breakthrough of the Red Army of the period 1943-1945

Vikenty Nikitovich MAZUR — short biography.
* * {{Cite web, url=https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=451068260, title=Memory of the People::Description of the organization and combat path of the 4th Artillery Corps with photographs attached, website=pamyat -naroda.ru, accessdate=2020-12-24 Artillery units and formations of the Soviet Union Corps of the Soviet Union Military units and formations disestablished in 1953