7th Mechanized Corps | |
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Active |
I Formation: 1934–38 |
Country | Soviet Union |
Branch | Red Army |
Type | Mechanized corps |
Engagements | |
Decorations |
Order of Lenin (3rd formation) |
Battle honours |
Novoukrainka (3rd formation) |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders |
Fyodor Katkov |
I Formation: 1934–38
II Formation: 1940–41
Order of Lenin (3rd formation)
Order of the Red Banner (3rd formation)
Novoukrainka (3rd formation)
The 7th Mechanized Corps was a mechanized corps of the Red Army, formed three times. The corps was first formed in 1934 in the Leningrad Military District and was converted into the 10th Tank Corps in 1938. The corps was reformed in the summer of 1940 in the Moscow Military District and fought in the Battle of Smolensk, after which its headquarters became part of Group Yartsevo's headquarters. The corps was formed a third time in August and September 1943. The third formation fought in the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive, Uman–Botoșani Offensive, Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, Battle of Debrecen, Budapest Offensive, Bratislava–Brno Offensive, Prague Offensive, and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. Postwar, the corps' third formation became a division and was disbanded in 1957.