6th Guards Rifle Corps

The corps was part of the 'operational army' from March 28, 1942 - October 13, 1942, and November 5, 1942 - May 9, 1945.

During the fighting in Volkhov the corps did not see combat. In the summer, in anticipation of the Sinyavino offensive, the Corps built a number of new connections and relocated slightly to the north. In September 1942 the Corps was involved in the Sinyavino offensive. The Corps were put into action as part of the Leningrad massacre on August 27, 1942. The offensive corps, in the early days of developing successfully, crossed the river black, broke through the first line of defense at the junction of the 227th and 223rd infantry divisions. After two days of the approache to the Sinyavino, the 3rd Guards Rifle Division launched an attack on the labor camp № 5, 24th and began moving to the lake Sinyavinskaya, where with the 19th attacked directly on Sinyavino. The corps was unsuccessful in making any further advance, soon was surrounded, and suffered heavy losses on September 27, 1942, derived from the achieved positions near Sinyavino. In October 1942, the Corps headquarters was transferred to Reserve of the Supreme High Command (Stavka Reserve).

During its second formation, the Corps was led by amongst others, Grigory Kotov (December 1943 - November 1944) and Stepan Morozov (November 1944 - March 1945).

Postwar, the 6th Guards Rifle Corps was moved to Romania along with the 57th Army. The 20th Guards Rifle Division became the 25th Guards Mechanized Division and was stationed at Giurgiu. The 61st Guards Rifle Division was stationed at Brănești. The 10th Guards Airborne Division became the 126th Guards Rifle Division and was stationed at Buda. In December 1946, the corps was disbanded, along with the 61st and 126th Guards Rifle Divisions.[1]

• 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.