34th Rifle Corps
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| 34th Rifle Corps | |
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| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Branch | Soviet Red Army |
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The 34th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 19th Army. Towards the end of the 1939-40 Winter War with Finland it took part in General Semyon Timoshenko's offensive in the Karelian Isthmus.[1] It took part in the Great Patriotic War. It was only partially mobilised by late July 1941 when it was fed piecemeal into combat against invading German forces at Vitebsk.[2]
Organization
Commanders
- Divisional commander Vasily Matveyevich Gonin (until February 1940)
- Divisional commander Konstantin Pyadyshev (February 1940 to May 1940)
- Division commander Prokofy Romanenko (May 1940 to June 1940)
- Major General Raphael Khmelnitsky (June 21, 1940 to August 9, 1941)
- Colonel Adrian Zakharovich Akimenko (July 24 to August 10, 1941)
References
- ^Dyke, Carl Van (11 January 2013). The Soviet Invasion of Finland, 1939-40. Routledge. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-136-31157-4.
- ^Glantz, David M. (1998). Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. University Press of Kansas. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-7006-0879-9.
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