Military unit
The23rd Rifle Corps was a corps of theSoviet Red Army. It was part of the4th Army. It took part in theSoviet invasion of Poland in 1939.
On 22 June 1941 it was part of theTranscaucasian Military District comprising the136th and138th Rifle Divisions.[1]
The45th Army was formed in late July 1941 in theTranscaucasian Military District from the Staff of 23rd Rifle Corps.
At the end of the war the corps joined the newCentral Group of Forces in Austria and Czechoslovakia. In accordance with an order of the Central Group of Forces, the252nd Rifle Division was transported by rail to the Soviet Union viaKaposvár, Budapest,Sighet,Rostov, andMineralnye Vody, with the rest of the 23rd Rifle Corps from 20 December 1945.[2] By February 15, 1946 the 252nd Rifle Division had fully arrived in theStavropol Military District (merged into theNorth Caucasus Military District shortly afterwards). The295th Rifle Division (Second Formation) was relocated after the end of the war from the GSFG in Germany toStavropol in the North Caucasus Military District with the 23rd Rifle Corps, where it became the 30th Separate Rifle Brigade in 1946. In October 1953, the brigade was upgraded into the 295th Rifle Division.[3]
The 23rd Rifle Corps was reformed in accordance with aGeneral Staff directive of 4 March 1955 and aMinistry of Defense order of 13 June, by renumbering the79th Rifle Corps in theGroup of Soviet Forces in Germany. Its headquarters was disbanded on 4 July 1956, with its divisions directly subordinated to the3rd Army headquarters.[4][5]
Soviet Union corps