The 28th Guards Rifle Corps (Lublinsky Corps) was a military unit of the USSR Armed Forces that fought in the Great Patriotic War. It existed from 1943 to 1956.
History[]
The corps was formed in November 1942 in the Voronezh region as the 15th Rifle Corps (2nd formation) consisting of the 172nd, 267th and 350th Rifle Divisions and a number of other units. Since its creation, the corps was part of the 6th Army.
On January 16, 1943, the Corps was renamed the 28th Guards Rifle Corps and received three Guards Rifle Divisions :
and was included in the 8th Guards Army, in which it stayed until the end of the war and before its disbandment. Divisions and units that were previously part of the corps were transferred to 34th Rifle Corps.
Commanders[]
- Gryaznov, Afanasy Sergeevich (1943), Guard major general;
- Guriev, Stepan Savelyevich (April 17, 1943 - December 29, 1943), Guard major general;
- Zalizyuk, Pyotr Iosifovich (December 30, 1943 - January 18, 1944), Guard Colonel, (temporary position);
- Monakhov, Dmitry Petrovich (January 19 - February 18, 1944), Guard major-general (mortally wounded in battle on February 18, 1944);
- Morozov, Stepan Ilyich (February 18 - July 1944), Major General, from March 1944, Lieutenant-General;
- Ryzhov, Alexander Ivanovich (July 10, 1944 - April 11, 1949), Guard major-general, from November 2, 1944 Guard-lieutenant general, Hero of the Soviet Union;
- Vedenin, Andrei Yakovlevich (April 11, 1949 - November 1, 1951), Guard general-major;
- Komarov, Vladimir Nikolaevich (November 1, 1951 - May 11, 1953), Guard major-general;
- Frolenkov, Andrei Grigorievich (July 1953 - June 1954), Guard general-major, from 31.05.1954 the Guard lieutenant-general;
Sources[]
- This is a translation of an article in the Russian Wikipedia, 28-й гвардейский стрелковый корпус.
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