63rd Rifle Corps

63rd Rifle Corps
Active	1st formation: 1939–1941 2nd formation: 1943–1957
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army (Soviet Army from 1946)
Engagements	World War II
Commanders
Notable commanders	Leonid Petrovsky (1st formation) Pyotr Koshevoy (2nd formation)

The 63rd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army during World War II, formed twice.

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First formation

The corps headquarters was first formed during September 1939 in the Volga Military District.^[1] It was part of the 21st Army in June 1941, with the 53rd, 148th, and 167th Rifle Divisions on 22 June, under the command of Lieutenant General Leonid Petrovsky.^[2] The corps headquarters was disbanded on 23 August as the Red Army eliminated most corps headquarters.^[3]

Second formation

The corps was reformed in mid-1943. Major General Tikhon Butorin briefly commanded it in early August, followed by Major General Dmitry Stankevsky for a few days. Major General Pyotr Koshevoy, promoted to lieutenant general on 17 May 1944, commanded the corps from late August to late May 1944. He was replaced by Major General Fyodor Bakunin, who commanded the corps for the rest of the war except for a brief period in April 1945, when he was replaced by Colonel Anatoly Nekrasov.^[2]

In 1954 the corps was in the Ural Military District and it controlled the 77th Rifle Division (Sverdlovsk) and 417th Rifle Division at Chebarkul.^[4] On 4 June 1957 it was redesignated as the 63rd Army Corps, but was disbanded by the early 1960s.^[5]

References

Citations

^ Meltyukhov 2008, p. 480.
^ ^a ^b Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964, pp. 27–28.
^ Pokrovsky 1956, p. 31.
^ Feskov et al. 2013, p. 512.
^ Feskov et al. 2013, p. 133.

Bibliography

Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.
Pokrovsky, A. P. (1956). "Перечень № 4. Управлений корпусов, входивших в состав действующей армии в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941—1945 гг" [List (Perechen) No. 4: Corps headquarters, part of the active army during the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945] (in Russian). Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union.
Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union (1964). Командование корпусного и дивизионного звена советских вооруженных сил периода Великой Отечественной войны 1941–1945 гг [Commanders of Corps and Divisions in the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945] (in Russian). Moscow: Frunze Military Academy.
Meltyukhov, Mikhail (2008). Упущенный шанс Сталина. Схватка за Европу: 1939-1941 гг [Stalin's Missed Chance: The Struggle for Europe, 1939–1941] (in Russian). Moscow: Veche. ISBN 978-5-9533-2697-1.

Soviet Union corps

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Other

Special Corps

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