24th Mechanised Corps

The 24th Mechanised Corps (V/Ch 7161) was a Mechanized Corps (Soviet) of the Red Army, active from 1940 to late 1941. On June 22, 1941, at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, it was located at Starokostiantyniv in the Kiev Special Military District.

The corps commander was Maj. Gen. Vladimir Chistyakov The corps Chief of Staff was Colonel Alexander Danilov (who died in the Uman Pocket).

The corps' three divisions were seemingly destroyed at Uman in August 1941.[1]

Units

45th Tank Division (V/Ch 1703)

Commander - Brigade Commander, with 08/12/41, Major General Mikhail Solomatin . Deputy Head of the Political Department - Battalion Commissar Vinogradov Vakhrouchev .

49th Tank Division - a / h 9405

Commander - Colonel Konstantin Shvetsov .
Artillery commander - Colonel Nicanor Nikanorovich Lyubimov ( died in captivity )

216 Motorized Division - a / h 9250

Commander - Colonel Ashot Sargsyan Sarkisovich Head of engineering department - Ivan Lebedev .

Corps troops

References

  1. Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, 231
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