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The 10th Guards Budapest Rifle Corps was a unit of the Soviet Red Army during the Eastern Front of World War II. The rifle corps took part in the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive as part of the 5th Shock Army, 3rd Ukrainian Front.[1][2] They also took part in the Budapest Offensive as part of the 46th Army.[3] Later, it became part of the Odessa Military District.[4]

Disestablishment[]

The 14th Army was officially formed as a Soviet Army unit on 25 November 1956 from the Odessa Military District's 10th Guards Budapest Rifle Corps in Kishinev.[5][6]

References[]

  1. "Prefecture of SEAD" (in ru). http://www.uvao.ru/uvao/ru/pages/print/o_105604. 
  2. Marchand, Jean-Luc. Order of Battle Soviet Army World War 2. The Nafziger Collection. 18. p. 125. 
  3. Erickson, John (1999-01-01) (in en). Stalin's War with Germany: The road to Berlin. Yale University Press. pp. 385–386. ISBN 0-300-07813-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=6UaU6ZLqK4UC. 
  4. Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013) (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. p. 49. ISBN 9785895035306. 
  5. Holm. "14th Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army" (in en). ww2.dk. http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/armies/14gvoa.htm. 
  6. "Russian troops in Transnistria – a threat to the security of the Republic of Moldova" (in en). http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/20998/. 

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