34th Rifle Corps

34th Rifle Corps
34th Rifle Corps
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Branch	Soviet Red Army
Engagements	Eastern Front (World War II) Operation Barbarossa; ;

The 34th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 19th Army. Towards the end of the 1939-40 Winter War with Finland it took part in General Semyon Timoshenko's offensive in the Karelian Isthmus.^[1] It took part in the Great Patriotic War. It was only partially mobilised by late July 1941 when it was fed piecemeal into combat against invading German forces at Vitebsk.^[2]

Organization

Commanders

Divisional commander Vasily Matveyevich Gonin (until February 1940)
Divisional commander Konstantin Pyadyshev (February 1940 to May 1940)
Division commander Prokofy Romanenko (May 1940 to June 1940)
Major General Raphael Khmelnitsky (June 21, 1940 to August 9, 1941)
Colonel Adrian Zakharovich Akimenko (July 24 to August 10, 1941)

References

^ Dyke, Carl Van (11 January 2013). The Soviet Invasion of Finland, 1939-40. Routledge. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-136-31157-4.
^ Glantz, David M. (1998). Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. University Press of Kansas. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-7006-0879-9.

[1] Dyke, Carl Van (11 January 2013). The Soviet Invasion of Finland, 1939-40. Routledge. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-136-31157-4.

[2] Glantz, David M. (1998). Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. University Press of Kansas. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-7006-0879-9.

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