3rd Karpatskiy Rifle Corps

3-й стрелковый Карпатский корпус

Military Unit: 09250

Commanders:

• Major-General of Artillery Konstantin Nikolaevich Leselidze, 10.6.42 - 10.10.42
• Colonel Grigoriy Nikiforovich Perekrestov, 11.10.42 - 4.1.43
• Major-General Vasiliy Fadeevich Sergatskov, 5.1.43 - 24.4.43
• Major-General Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Luchinskiy, 25.4.43 - 10.3.44
• Major-General Mikhail Ilich Koldubov (acting), 11.3.44 - 17.3.44
• Major-General Nikolay Aleksandrovich Shvarev, 18.3.44 - 16.4.44
• Major-General Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Luchinskiy, 17.4.44 - 20.5.44
• Major-General Andrey Yakovlevich Vedenin, 21.5.44 - 30.1.46
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Aleksandrovich Gagen, 31.1.46 - 5.47
• Major-General Aleksandr Ignatevich Kazartsev, 5.47 - 2.12.49
• Major-General Stepan Trofimovich Gladyshev, 2.12.49 - 2.53
• Major-General Aleksey Nikolaevich Inauri, 2.53 - 19.7.53
• Lieutenant-General Dmitriy Platonovich Onuprienko, 20.7.53 - 21.7.57

Activated 9.6.42 as the 3rd Mountain Rifle Corps.

Organisation 10.5.45:

• 128th Guards Mountain Rifle Division
• 242nd Mountain Rifle Division
• 318th Mountain Rifle Division

Organisation 1.1.46:

• 128th Guards Mountain Rifle Division (Uzhgorod, Zakarpatkaya Oblast)
• 242nd Mountain Rifle Division (Khust, Zakarpatkaya Oblast)
• 318th Mountain Rifle Division (Mukachevo, Zakarpatkaya Oblast)

In 5.46 the 242nd Mountain Rifle Division was disbanded.

Organisation 1.1.50:

• 128th Guards Mountain Rifle Division (Uzhgorod, Zakarpatkaya Oblast)
• 318th Mountain Rifle Division (Mukachevo, Zakarpatkaya Oblast)

In 11.54 renamed 3rd Rifle Corps.

In 4.55 the 318th Rifle Division was renamed 53rd Rifle Division.

In 9.55 the 53rd Rifle Division was renamed 39th Mechanised Division - 4.12.55 inherited the awards from the 13th Guards Rifle Division, and was renamed 39th Guards Mechanised Division.

In 11.56 took part in the invasion of Hungary (Operation Whirlwind) with the 128th Guards Rifle Division and the 11th Guards Mechanised Division (from the 8th Mechanised Army).

Organisation 1.1.57:

• 128th Guards Rifle Division (Esztergom, Hungary)
• 11th Guards Mechanised Division (Szekesfehervar, Hungary)

21.7.57 disbanded - HQ was absorbed by the 38th Combined Arms Army.

Headquarters:

• Litomysl, Czechoslovakia, 10.5.45 - 20.5.45
• Golits, Czechoslovakia, 20.5.45 - 31.5.45
• march to Ukraine, 1.6.45 - 22.7.45 (different locations each day)
• Uzhgorod, Zakarpatkaya Oblast, 22.7.45 - 11.56
• Szekesfehervar, Hungary, 11.56 - 21.7.57

Subordination:

• 60th Combined Arms Army, 5.45 - 10.5.45
• 1st Guards Cobined Arms Army, 10.5.45 - 5.6.45
• 38th Combined Arms Army, 5.6.45 - 7.57