The 86th Rifle Corps () was a
rifle corps A rifle corps (russian: стрелковый корпус, translit=strelkovyy korpus) was a Soviet corps-level military formation during the mid-twentieth century. Rifle corps were made up of a varying number of rifle divisions, although the allo ...
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, afte ...
and later the
Soviet Army
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Formed in 1943 as part of the
36th Army of the
Transbaikal Front
The Transbaikal Front (russian: Забайкальский фронт) was a front formed on September 15, 1941, on the basis of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air ...
, the corps spent the next two years as a garrison unit.
World War II
In recognition of its crossing of the Greater Khingan mountains, the corps received the honorific Khingan in late 1945.
Postwar
After the end of the war, the corps became part of the Transbaikal–Amur Military District along with the rest of the 36th Army. It was headquartered at
Tsugol,
Chita Oblast
Chita Oblast ( rus, Чити́нская о́бласть, r=Čitínskaja óblastj, p=tɕɪˈtʲinskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) was a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in southeast Siberia, Russia. Its administrative center was the city of Chita. ...
from late 1945 with
Military Unit Number
A Military Unit Number (Russian: Войсковая часть) is a numeric alternate designation for military units in the armed forces and internal troops of post-Soviet states, originally used by those of the Soviet Union
The Soviet ...
68613 and included the
36th Motor Rifle and
94th Rifle Divisions. The 36th Division became a regular rifle division in June 1946. On 10 July 1947, the military district was reorganized into the Transbaikal Military District with its headquarters formed from the 36th Army headquarters. The 86th Corps headquarters was used to form a new headquarters for the 36th Army in Tsugol. On 2 July 1955, the corps was renumbered as the 26th Rifle Corps before being disbanded on 18 May 1956. Both the 36th and 94th Divisions were disbanded around the same time.
Commanders
The following officers are known to have commanded the corps:
* Major General
Vasily Viktorov (1 August 1943–3 April 1944)
* Major General
Vladimir Akimov (4 April–6 December 1944)
* Major General
Vasily Burmasov (7 December 1944–3 April 1945)
* Major General
Grigory Revunenkov (4 April 1945–March 1947)
* Lieutenant General
Ivan Kravtsov
Ivan Yevgenyevich Kravtsov ( be, Іван Яўгеньевіч Краўцоў; born June 10, 1989, in Minsk, Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, Belarusian SSR) is a political activist, architect, manager, executive secretary of the Coordination ...
(March 1947–July 1950)
* Major General
Mikhail Yagodin (July 1950–6 May 1952)
* Major General (promoted to Lieutenant General 8 August 1955)
Ivan Kalyuzhny (6 May 1952–18 May 1956)
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Rifle corps of the Soviet Union
Military units and formations established in 1943
Military units and formations disestablished in 1955