The 50th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 23rd Army on 22 June 1941.^[1] It took part in the Great Patriotic War.

Organization[edit]

On 22 June 1941, the corps included the following units:^[1]

• 43rd Rifle Division
• 70th Rifle Division
• 123rd Rifle Division

Commanders[edit]

• Komkor Filipp Gorelenko (08.1939 - 05.1940)
• Komkor Panteleimon Zaitsev (05.1940 - 08.1940)
• Major General Vladimir Shcherbakov (17.01.1941 - 04.08.1941)
• Major General Sarkis Martirosyan (25.06.1943 - 24.04.1944)

• Major General Pavel Batitsky (25.04.1944 - 27.05.1944)
• Major General Serafim Merkulov (28.05.1944 - 20.04.1945)
• Major General Nikolai Tavartkiladze (21.04.1945 - 11.05.1945)

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Bibliography[edit]

• Gurkin, V.V.; Malanin, K.A. (1963). Боевой состав Советской армии: Часть I (июнь-декабрь 1941 года) [Combat Composition of the Soviet Army, Part I (June–December 1941)] (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow: Military Historical Department of the Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff.