9th Guards Motor Rifle Division

(Redirected from 22nd Tank Corps) Motor rifle division of the Soviet military

22nd Tank Corps (1942) 5th Mechanized Corps (1942–1944) 9th Guards Mechanized Corps (1944–1945) 9th Guards Mechanized Division (1945–1957) 9th Guards Motor Rifle Division (1957–1958)
A 76 mm ZiS-3 gun and an M4A2(76) Sherman of the corps' 46th Guards Tank Brigade on a street in Vienna during the Vienna Offensive
Active	1942–1958
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Soviet Ground Forces
Type	Mechanized infantry
Role	Armored warfare
Size	Division, Mechanized Corps
Engagements	World War II Cold War
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov
Battle honours	Dniester Rymnik

Military unit

9th GMR Division (1957)
Parent unit	6th Guards Tank Army
Components	18th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment 375th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment 378th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment 46th Guards Tank Regiment

The 9th Guards Dniester-Rymnik Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Motor Rifle Division was a Soviet Army unit initially formed as a tank corps in April 1942. In the same year, it was then formed as a mechanized corps in November 1942. This unit then became a Guards mechanized corps in September 1944. Following World War II, the corps were reorganized as a mechanized division in 1945 and then a motor rifle division in 1957 before being disbanded in 1958.

History

World War II

The unit formed as the 22nd Tank Corps on 3 April 1942 and was subordinated to the 38th and 4th Tank Armies of the Southwestern and Stalingrad Fronts. In September 1942, following heavy losses around Kalach, the corps moved into the Reserve of the Supreme High Command (Stavka reserve) and was reorganized as the second instance (formation) of the 5th Mechanized Corps. During 1943, the 5th Mechanized Corps was mainly assigned as a Stavka reserve asset or as a reserve of the Western Front. The corps was assigned to the 6th Tank Army in February 1944 and achieved Guards status on 12 September 1944, being retitled as the 9th Guards Mechanized Corps. As such, the corps remained with the 6th Guards Tank Army for the remainder of the war in Europe, and was then transferred with its parent army to the far east, seeing action against Japanese forces under the direction of the Transbaikal Front.

The corps was in combat near Kalach in 1942, Smolensk and Lenino in 1943, Korsun and Iasi-Kishinev in 1944, and at Budapest and Vienna in 1945, as well as fighting in the Manchurian Operation in September 1945.

The 9th Guards Mechanized Corps was notable for its use of U.S. Lend-Lease M4A2-76 diesel-engined Sherman tanks during 1944-45.

Postwar

In October 1945, the corps, like all Soviet mechanized corps, was reorganized into a division, the 9th Guards Mechanized Division. It was stationed at Yasnaya, part of the Transbaikal Military District's 6th Guards Tank Army. The division included the 18th, 30th, and 31st Guards Mechanized Regiments, and the 46th and 111th Guards Tank Regiments. On 4 June 1957, the division became the 9th Guards Motor Rifle Division at Sainshand, Mongolia. The division was disbanded on 1 November 1958.

Commanders

General-mayor Mikhail Vasilyevich Volkov (2 November 1942–9 January 1948, promoted general-leytenant 5 November 1943)
General-mayor Nikolay Vasilyevich Petrushin (14 March 1948–12 April 1952)
Colonel Vasily Ivanovich Zaytsev (12 April 1952–30 September 1956, promoted general-mayor 31 May 1954)
Colonel Yevgeny Denisovich Gaydayenko (14 November 1956–1 November 1958)

References

Citations

^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 207.
Glantz (Companion), p. 89 and 93.
Erickson, p. 369.
Glantz (Companion), p. 93.
Poirier, p. 105, 126, and 146.
"english.iremember.ru". Archived from the original on 10 February 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
Feskov et al 2013, p. 485.
Feskov et al 2013, p. 204.
^ Kalashnikov & Dodonov 2019, pp. 97–98.
Feskov et al 2013, p. 162.

Bibliography

Erickson, John. The Road to Stalingrad, Yale University Press, 1995
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. ISBN 9785895035306.
Glantz, David, Companion to Colossus Reborn, University Press of Kansas, 2005.
Kalashnikov, K. A.; Dodonov, I. Yu. (2019). Высший командный состав Вооруженных сил СССР в послевоенный период: Справочные материалы (1945-1975) (in Russian). Vol. 4: Командный состав Сухопутных войск (армейское и дивизионное звенья). Часть первая. Ust-Kamenogorsk: Media-Alyans. ISBN 9786017887315.
Poirier, Robert G., and Conner, Albert Z., The Red Army Order of Battle in the Great Patriotic War, Presidio Press, 1985.

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Guards	8 15 37 38 39

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Divisions of the Soviet Union 1945–1957

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Divisions of the Soviet Union 1957–1989

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