The 50th 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
23rd Army on 22 June 1941. It took part in the Great Patriotic War.
Organization
On 22 June 1941, the corps included the following units:
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43rd Rifle Division
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70th Rifle Division
The 70th Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Red Army and briefly of the Soviet Army, formed twice.
Formed in 1934 at Samara, the division was transferred to the Leningrad Military District in the late 1930s and fought in the Wint ...
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123rd Rifle Division
Commanders
* Komkor
Filipp Gorelenko
Filipp Danilovich Gorelenko (russian: Филипп Данилович Гореленко, Cherkasy Raion, 25 November 1888 – Leningrad, 25 January 1956) was a Soviet Army Lieutenant-General, lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
...
(08.1939 - 05.1940)
* Komkor Panteleimon Zaitsev (05.1940 - 08.1940)
* Major General
Vladimir Shcherbakov (17.01.1941 - 04.08.1941)
* Major General
Sarkis Martirosyan (25.06.1943 - 24.04.1944)
* Major General
Pavel Batitsky
Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky ( ua, Павло Федорович Батицький; russian: Па́вел Фёдорович Бати́цкий; 27 June 1910 – 17 February 1984) was a Soviet military leader awarded the highest honorary title of ...
(25.04.1944 - 27.05.1944)
* Major General
Serafim Merkulov (28.05.1944 - 20.04.1945)
* Major General
Nikolai Tavartkiladze (21.04.1945 - 11.05.1945)
References
Citations
Bibliography
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Rifle corps of the Soviet Union
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