7th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)

7th Mechanized Corps
Emblem of the 7th Mechanized Corps 1944-1945
ActiveI Formation: 1934–1938

II Formation: 1940–1941

III Formation: 1943–1945
CountrySoviet Union
BranchRed Army
TypeMechanized corps
EngagementsWorld War II
DecorationsOrder of Lenin Order of Lenin (3rd formation)

Order of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner (3rd formation)

Order of Suvorov 2nd Class Order of Suvorov (3rd formation)
Battle honoursNovoukrainka (3rd formation)
Khingan (3rd formation)
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The 7th Mechanized Corps was a mechanized corps of the Red Army, formed three times. The corps was first formed in 1934 in the Leningrad Military District and was converted into the 10th Tank Corps in 1938. The corps was reformed in the summer of 1940 in the Moscow Military District and fought in the Battle of Smolensk, after which its headquarters became part of Group Yartsevo's headquarters. The corps was formed a third time in August and September 1943. The third formation fought in the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive, Uman–Botoșani Offensive, Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, Battle of Debrecen, Budapest Offensive, Bratislava–Brno Offensive, Prague Offensive, and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. Postwar, the corps' third formation became a division and was disbanded in 1957.


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