The 21st Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the Western Front. It took part in the Great Patriotic War.

21st Rifle Corps
AllegianceSoviet Union
BranchSoviet Red Army
Engagements

The headquarters formed in the Moscow Military District in September 1939.[1] Assigned to the WSMD with the 17th, 24th, and 37th Rifle Divisions.[2] The commander was Major General Vladimir Borisovich Borisov.

The corps was disbanded in summer 1945.[3]

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Citations

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  1. ^ Meltyukhov 2008, p. 479.
  2. ^ Glantz 1998, p. 263.
  3. ^ Feskov et al. 2013, p. 132.

Bibliography

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  • Glantz, David (1998). Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0700617890.
  • Meltyukhov, Mikhail (2008). Упущенный шанс Сталина. Схватка за Европу: 1939-1941 гг [Stalin's Missed Chance: The Struggle for Europe, 1939–1941] (in Russian). Moscow: Veche. ISBN 978-5-9533-2697-1.
  • Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.