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67th Rifle Corps


The 67th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army during World War II, formed twice.

The corps was formed in March 1940 in the Kharkov Military District with the 102nd Rifle Division, 132nd, and 151st Rifle Divisions, 194th Separate Combat Engineer Battalion, 207th Separate Communications Battalion. The corps headquarters was stationed in Poltava, the regional center, Ukrainian SSR. On 22 June 1941, the corps was stationed Poltava – of Tarascha, Kharkov Military District. It was part of the Supreme Command Reserve.

On 2 July the corps was transferred into the body 21st Army Western Front. By 1 September 1941 the 67th Rifle Corps was deployed on the line ObolonReymentarovkaJadesSemenivka front to the east and began an offensive against the units of the 2nd Panzer Group. That day it was listed in the Combat composition of the Soviet Army (BSSA) as consisting of the 24th, 42nd, and 277th Rifle Divisions. However, on 2 September the Corps came under the flank attack by the Das Reich Motorized Division and the German 1st Cavalry Division and began to withdraw to their original positions. At the end of September 1941 the remains of the corps was destroyed in the Kiev pocket, the corps headquarters was disbanded 13 October 1941.


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