44th Rifle Corps

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The 44th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army of the Soviet Union. It took part in the Great Patriotic War in 1941 and 1943-45.

On 22 June 1941, the corps consisted of the 64th Rifle Division and the (General Major Alexander Mavrichev on 22 June 1941^[1]). Sources are unclear whether the corps was assigned to the 13th Army that day or directly responsible to the Western Special Military District.^[2] Two days later the WSMD became the Western Front.

Commanders[]

• Major General Vasily Yushkevich (04.03.1941 - 11.09.1941),
• Major General Michail Kleshnin (26.05.1943 - 11.05.1945)

References[]

• Bulkin, Anatoly (2018). Генералитет Красной Армии (1918-1941). Военный биографический словарь в 3-х томах [Red Army Generals, 1918–1941: Three-volume Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 2. Penza.

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