10th Guards Budapest Rifle Corps

The 10th Guards Budapest Rifle Corps was a unit of the Soviet Red Army during the Eastern Front of World War II. The rifle corps took part in the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive as part of the 5th Shock Army, 3rd Ukrainian Front.[1][2] They also took part in the Budapest Offensive as part of the 46th Army.[3] Later, it became part of the Odessa Military District.[4]

Disestablishment

Main article: 14th Guards Army

The 14th Army was officially formed as a Soviet Army unit on 25 November 1956 from the Odessa Military District's 10th Guards Budapest Rifle Corps in Kishinev.[5][6]

References

1. "Prefecture of SEAD" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
2. Marchand, Jean-Luc. Order of Battle Soviet Army World War 2. The Nafziger Collection. 18. p. 125.
3. Erickson, John (1 January 1999). Stalin's War with Germany: The road to Berlin. Yale University Press. pp. 385–386. ISBN 0-300-07813-7.
4. 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. p. 49. ISBN 9785895035306.
5. Holm. "14th Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army". ww2.dk. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
6. "Russian troops in Transnistria – a threat to the security of the Republic of Moldova". Archived from the original on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2019.

Further reading

• Myatishkin, Andrey, ed. (1957). "Прорыв обороны противника 10-м гвардейским стрелковым корпусом в Будапештской операции (декабрь 1944 г.)" [Breakthrough of enemy defenses by the 10th Guards Rifle Corps in the Budapest Operation (December 1944)]. Прорыв подготовленной обороны стрелковыми соединениями [A breakthrough of the prepared defense by rifle formations] (Web). Военная литература (in Russian) (М.: Воениздат ed.).