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The '''1st RifleArmy Corps''' was an army corps of the [[Soviet Armed Forces]],. It was formed in 19221957 and activefinally atdeactivated leastin until1991. It draws its history from the end1st Rifle Corps, formed in 1922. Troops of the 1st Rifle Corps participated in the [[Winter War]] (November 1939 - March 1940) and [[World War II]].

The corps was formed in June, 1922 in [[Saint Petersburg|Petrograd]] (currently Saint-Petersburg) as the 1st Army Corps (1 ak). Creation of the corpcorps was based on a Directive of the Commander number 195060/69, of 15 May 1922, Order Petrograd VO No.1416/383, 6 June 1922. In July 1922 it was named the 1st Rifle Corps. In 1926 corps headquarters was moved to [[Novgorod]], and in 1938 to [[Pskov]].

OnIn May 15,November 1939 the [[75th Rifle Division arrived in [[Schlusselburg]] (75th RDLenVO) where on vehicles it was transferred fromto Karelia, as part of the [[14th1st Rifle Corps]], ([[Kharkov8th MilitaryArmy, District]])LenVO. andThat arrivedsame inmonth thecorps [[Leningradheadquarters Militarywas Districtmoved to [[Petrozavodsk]] (November 1939 - April 1940).

* [[Pskov]] ( April - June 1940) ;

* [[Tartu]] (June - July 1940) ;

On June 22, 1941, at the beginning of [[Operation Barbarossa]], the corps comprised the:<ref>[http://www.idiot.vitebsk.net/i40/mart41_1_2.htm compounds of ground troops to the Western Front, June 22, 1941]</ref>

* Corps Headquarters ( statewide number 4/1[[Białystok|Bialystok]]) , Bialystok <ref name="disl.z4">[http://rkka.ru/handbook/disl/z4.htm Location partsof Units of the Western Special Military District at 30.05.1941 ]</ref> (''Shtat'' ([[Table of Organisation and Equipment]]) 4/1)

* [[2nd Rifle Division]], [[commander]](Soviet -Union)|2nd [[ColonelRifle Division]] ([[GrishinOsowiec , Michael DanilovichFortress|M. D. Grishin]], location - [[Osovets]] ;)

* [[8th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)|8th Rifle Division]], commander - Colonel [[Fomin, Nikolai I.|Nikolai Fomin]], location - ([[Stavisky]] ;)

* [[130th Corps Artillery Regiment]] , location in the ([[LomzaŁomża]];)<ref name="disl.z4" />

* [[262nd Corps Artillery regiment]] ;Regiment

* 23rd separateSeparate Communications Battalion .

Last mention in the Soviet[[Boevoi Ordersostav ofSovetskoi Battlearmii]] (OOBCombat composition of the Soviet Army, BSSA) was on 1 July 1941 with the corps directly subordinated to the [[Western Front (Soviet Union)]].

The corps reappeared in the OOBBSSA on 1 June 1942 directly subordinated to the [[North CaucausCaucasian Front]], and made up of four rifle brigades. Thereafter, the last 1942 OOBBSSA mention of the corps is on 1 August 1942.

The 1st Rifle Corps reappears in the Soviet OOBBSSA on 1 September 1943 as part of the [[Northwestern Front]]. Final mention on 1 May 1945 subordinated to the 1st Shock Army, [[Leningrad Front]], and in command of the [[306th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)|306th]], [[344th Rifle Division|344th]], and [[357th Rifle Division]]s.<ref>{{Sfn|Feskov et al |2013,|p=48.</ref> Feskov et al. 2004}} says theThe corps headquarters, as well as the [[4th Shock Army]], was moved to Central Asia after the end of the war and established at [[Ashgabat]].<ref>V.I. Feskov et al 2004, 45</ref> On 25 June 1957 it was renamed the 1st Army Corps.<ref>Holm, http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/armies/32oa.htm, 2015.</ref> In April 1970, the corps headquarters was moved to [[Semipalatinsk]], whereand in[[78th Tank Division]] moved it headquarters from Ashkabad (Turkmen SSR) to [[Ayaguz]] (Kazakh SSR) at the same time. In September 1981 it was raised in status to become [[32nd Army (Soviet Union)|32nd Army]]. A tank division may have moved to Semipalatinsk alongside the corps headquarters.

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