21st Rifle Corps
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The 21st Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the Western Front. It took part in the Great Patriotic War.
The headquarters formed in the Moscow Military District in September 1939.{{Sfn|Meltyukhov|2008|p=479}} Assigned to the WSMD with the 17th, 24th, and 37th Rifle Divisions.{{Sfn|Glantz|1998|p=263}} The commander was Major General Vladimir Borisovich Borisov.
The corps was disbanded in summer 1945.{{sfn|Feskov|Golikov|Kalashnikov|Slugin|2013|p=132}}
References
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- {{cite book|title=Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War|last=Glantz|first=David|publisher=University Press of Kansas|year=1998|isbn=978-0700617890|publication-place=Lawrence}}
- {{Cite book|last=Meltyukhov|first=Mikhail|title=Упущенный шанс Сталина. Схватка за Европу: 1939-1941 гг.|publisher=Veche|year=2008|isbn=978-5-9533-2697-1|location=Moscow|language=ru|trans-title=Stalin's Missed Chance: The Struggle for Europe, 1939–1941}}
- {{Cite book|title=Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской|last=Feskov|first=V.I.|last2=Golikov|first2=V.I.|last3=Kalashnikov|first3=K.A.|last4=Slugin|first4=S.A.|publisher=Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing|year=2013|isbn=9785895035306|location=Tomsk|language=ru|trans-title=The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces}}
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Category:Rifle corps of the Soviet Union
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