The 63rd Rifle Corps was a corps of the
Red Army
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during
World War II
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, formed twice.
First formation
The corps headquarters was first formed during September 1939 in the
Volga Military District
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The district headquarters was located at Kazan, Saratov and Kuibyshev (Samara) at different ...
. It was part of the
21st Army in June 1941, with the
53rd,
148th, and
167th Rifle Divisions on 22 June, under the command of Lieutenant General
Leonid Petrovsky
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. The corps headquarters was disbanded on 23 August as the Red Army eliminated most corps headquarters.
Second formation
The corps was reformed in mid-1943. Major General
Tikhon Butorin briefly commanded it in early August, followed by Major General
Dmitry Stankevsky for a few days. Major General
Pyotr Koshevoy
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Koshevoy was born to a ...
, promoted to lieutenant general on 17 May 1944, commanded the corps from late August to late May 1944. He was replaced by Major General
Fyodor Bakunin, who commanded the corps for the rest of the war except for a brief period in April 1945, when he was replaced by Colonel Anatoly Nekrasov.
In 1954 the corps was in the
Ural Military District
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and it controlled the
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(
Sverdlovsk) and
417th Rifle Division at
Chebarkul
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Etymology
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. On 4 June 1957 it was redesignated as the 63rd Army Corps, but was disbanded by the early 1960s.
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Rifle corps of the Soviet Union
Military units and formations established in 1939
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