40th Army Corps
40-й армейский корпус
Military Unit: 55590
Commanders:
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Lieutenant-General Georgiy Ivanovich Anisimov, 7.1.44 - 15.4.44
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Lieutenant-General Semyon Petrovich Mikulskiy, 16.4.44 - 2.6.44
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Colonel Viktor Antonovich Verzhbitskiy, 3.6.44 - 3.10.44
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Lieutenant-General Filipp Yakovlevich Solovyev, 10.10.44 - 3.46
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Major-General Mikhail Mikhaylovich Busarov, 8.7.46 - 30.4.49
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Majoir-General Efim Vasilevich Ryzhikov, 30.4.49 - 16.11.50
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Lieutenant-General Andrey Trofimovich Stuchenko, 16.11.50 - 22.9.51
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Lieutenant-General Ivan Mikhaylovich Afonin, 23.9.51 - 6.54
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no data, 6.54 - 8.56
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Major-General Mikhail Georgievich Fomichyov, 2.8.56 - 7.10.60
Activated 23.12.43 as the 123rd Rifle Corps.
Organisation 10.45:
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29th Rifle Division (Shikhany, Saratov
Oblast)
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43rd Rifle Division (Kuybyshev, Kuybyshev
Oblast)
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376th Rifle Division (Serdobsk, Penza Oblast)
In 4.46 all three divisions were reduced to independent Rifle Brigades:
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10th independent Rifle Brigade (Shikhany,
Saratov Oblast)
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21st independent Rifle Brigade (Kuybyshev,
Kuybyshev Oblast)
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48th independent Rifle Brigade (Serdobsk, Penza Oblast)
23.7.49 the 48th independent Rifle Brigade was transferred to the
Turkestan Military District.
Organisation 1950:
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10th independent Rifle Brigade (Shikhany,
Saratov Oblast)
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21st independent Rifle Brigade (Kuybyshev,
Kuybyshev Oblast)
18.9.53 the 10th independent Rifle Brigade was
renamed 63rd Mechanised Division.
In 10.53 the 21st independent Rifle Brigade
was renamed 43rd Rifle Division.
13.6.55 renamed 40th Rifle Corps:
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63rd Mechanised Division (Shikhany, Saratov
Oblast)
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43rd Rifle Division (Kuybyshev, Kuybyshev
Oblast)
4.6.57 renamed 40th Army Corps:
Disbanded 7.10.60.
Headquarters:
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Matkule, Latvian SSR, 10.5.45 - 12.5.45
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Pope, Latvian SSR, 18.5.45 - 7.45
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Kuybyshev, Kuybyshev Oblast, 8.45 - 10.60
Subordination: