9th Rifle Corps explained

Unit Name:9th Rifle Corps
Dates:1922 - 1941
1942 - October 1946
Allegiance:Soviet Union
Branch:Soviet Red Army
Garrison:Simferopol
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The 9th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army. Located in Simferopol during the beginning of the war in the east.

History

The corps headquarters was formed in accordance with orders of the North Caucasus Military District of 6 June and 26 August 1922. Its headquarters was initially located at Grozny, then relocated to Vladikavkaz in January 1923 and thence to Novocherkassk in August 1925. The corps included the 13th Rifle Division for the disarmament of population of Dagestan in August 1925 and the 9th Rifle Division for the suppression of Karachay rebels between April and May 1930. In May 1932 the corps headquarters was relocated to Krasnodar, where it remained until 1941.

In late May 1941 the corps was relocated to Crimea with headquarters at Simferopol. At the beginning of the war the corps was re-organized as the new 51st Army. The corps was re-created in August than in May 1942 it was disbanded. In 1942 it was reformed yet again than assigned to the 9th Army later in February 1943. In 1944 it was assigned to the 28th Army as part of the 3rd Ukrainian Front where it remained until April 1945 when it transferred to the 5th Shock Army where it participated in both the Battle of Poznań and the Battle of Berlin where it later joined the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, where was possibly disbanded later that year.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] The corps was later disbanded in October 1946 when the 5th Shock Army was disbanded.[8]

Structure before Operation Barbarossa 1941

Organization of the corps before the start of the war in the east:[9]

Structure of the corps just before the 1944 operations

Prior to the Vistula-Oder offensive the 248th Rifle Division came under command of the corps and continued under its command until the corps was disbanded in October 1946.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: The Organization and Order of Battle of Militaries in World War II: Volume V. Book A. - Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics. 276.
  2. Book: The Organization and Order of Battle of Militaries in World War II: Volume V. Book A. - Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics. 88.
  3. Book: The Organization and Order of Battle of Militaries in World War II: Volume V. Book A. - Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics. 230.
  4. Book: The Organization and Order of Battle of Militaries in World War II: Volume V. Book A. - Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics. 195.
  5. Book: The Organization and Order of Battle of Militaries in World War II: Volume V. Book A. - Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics. 212–213.
  6. Book: The Organization and Order of Battle of Militaries in World War II: Volume V. Book A. - Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics. 153–155.
  7. Book: The Organization and Order of Battle of Militaries in World War II: Volume V. Book A. - Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics. 185.
  8. Web site: Rifle Division, 09.08.45. niehorster.org. 2019-02-06.
  9. Web site: Rifle Corps, Soviet Army, 22 June 1941.
  10. Book: The Organization and Order of Battle of Militaries in World War II: Volume V. Book A. - Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics. 403–404.
  11. Web site: Soviet Rifle Division, Nos. 100 – 149, 22 June 1941. niehorster.org. 2019-02-05.
  12. Web site: Soviet Rifle Division, Nos. 150 - 199, 22 June 1941. niehorster.org. 2019-02-05.
  13. Book: The Organization and Order of Battle of Militaries in World War II: Volume V. Book A. - Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics. 429–430.
  14. Web site: Rifle Division, 09.08.45.

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