5th Rifle Corps (1st formation)

The corps was formed in Minsk by orders of the troops of the Western Front No. 1070 of May 27, 1922 and the Minsk Military Region No. 72 of June 13, 1922.

The corps administration from July 1922 to September 1923 was stationed in Mogilev , until October 1940 in Bobruisk , and until July 1941 in Belsk .

The troops of the 5th Rifle Corps participated in the annexation of Western Belarus to the USSR and the Great Patriotic War ^[1] .

By the beginning of the war, the corps was stationed in Belsk and its environs. According to the plan for covering the state border, the corps troops were to occupy the fortifications of the Zambruva fortified area on the site from the Narev River near Novogrudok to Zuzeli (now in the commune of Nur ). The 13th Infantry Division occupied the positions on the right flank of Narew, the 86th Infantry Division defended the area of Ciechanovets , and the 113th Infantry Division was located south.

The headquarters of the corps on June 22, 1941 was located in Zambrow .

During World War II as part of the army from June 22, 1941 to July 6, 1941.

On a section of the corps, the forces of the 4th Field Army went on the offensive. On the left flank of the corps, under the most powerful artillery and air strike at the place of deployment of Siemiatycze , the 113th Infantry Division was hit and suffered serious losses. Nevertheless, it was possible to restore the relative order and the division came to the north-west, with the aim of turning around at the positions of the fortified area south of Ciechanowiec. But on the march, the division was attacked by units of the 9th Army Corps ( 263rd and 137th Infantry Divisions), did not have time to turn around, was dispersed and how the formation ceased to exist. Its disparate units fought for several days north-east of Siemiatycze .

Thus, the left flank of the corps turned out to be open and enemy troops freely went along it. Together with the 113th Infantry Division, the left flank of the 86th Infantry Division, which left Ciechanovets on the first day of the war, was crushed. But the center and the right flank of the division fought for Chizhev and on the outskirts of Zambrow .

On June 23, 1941, the 13th Infantry Division continued fighting almost on the border between Zambrow and Lomza , the division headquarters was located in Snyadovo . The division gradually moved north-east, to the Chervoniy Bor region (south-west of Lomzhi). The 86th Infantry Division withdrew from its positions and organizedly retreated to Narew in the direction of Surazh , where it took up defense along the Narew. On June 24, 1941, the 13th Infantry Division also went there, taking up positions to the right of the 86th Infantry Division. To the left of the 86th Infantry Division, battles of the 13th Mechanized Corps fought. At these positions, the 86th Infantry Division came under a massive artillery strike from three enemy divisions and aircraft, and under cover of fire the enemy tried to force Narev. The first attempts were repulsed, but soon the defense of the division was broken, the enemy took Surazh and by the end of the day Zabluduv ; and the corps essentially had access only to Bialystok . There were no several days in the strip of the neighboring 13th Infantry Division, but it was not involved in repelling an offensive in the strip of the neighboring division.

On the morning of June 25, 1941, the 86th Infantry Division was located in Doctorce and Ukhovo (near the town of Lapa ). The 13th Infantry Division was located in Bachuta (now in the municipality of Turosn-Koscieln ). Office Corps was in Levitsky.

On the night of June 26, 1941, the 13th Infantry Division received an order to withdraw to the area of Supralyanskaya Pushcha (northeast of Bialystok), but on the march came under air attack and was destroyed. The 86th Infantry Division and the remnants of the 13th Infantry Division, which joined it, began to retreat through Bialystok to Volkovysk and died in the cauldron of encirclement ^[2] .

On June 29, the corps administration was defeated in the area of Derechin . Missing: the corps commander Major General A. V. Garnov , the deputy corps commander Major General F. I. Budanov and the head of the artillery corps Major General of the artillery G. P. Kozlov . On July 6, 1941, the corps administration was disbanded.

Corps commanders

• Kazansky, Evgeny Sergeevich , division commander - (02.1936 - 05.1937)
• Chuykov, Vasily Ivanovich , division commander - (04.1938 - 06.1938)
• Garnov, Alexander Vasilievich , division commander, from 04/04/1940 - Major General (02.1939 - 06.1941) ^[3]

Corps Headquarters

• Kozlov, Mikhail Ivanovich - Colonel ( brigade commander , major general ) (from August 1938 to March 1941);
• Bobkov, Mikhail Vladimirovich - Colonel (from March 1941 to July 1941).

• The combat structure of the Soviet Army
• List No. 4 of the departments of the corps that were part of the army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
• The command staff of the Red Army and RKVMF in 1941-1945 (inaccessible link)