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11th Army Corps (Russian Federation)

Summary

The 11th Army Corps, (Russian: 11-й армейский корпус, romanized: 11-y Armeyskiy Korpus) is a tactical formation of the Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy, formed in 2016 as part of the Baltic Fleet, in the Western Military District.

11th Army Corps
11-й армейский корпус
Active1 April 2016–Present
Country Russian Federation
Branch Russian Navy
SizeArmy Corps
Part ofBaltic Fleet
Corps HQGusev, Kaliningrad Oblast
Commanders
Current
commander		Major General Andrey Ruzinsky

The corps is located in Kaliningrad Oblast, with its headquarters in the city of Gusev.[1]

The corps was formed on 1 April 2016, and operates from Kaliningrad Oblast. Its first commander was Yuri Yarovitsky [ru].[1]

On 1 February 2021 the revival of the 75th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment at Sovetsk (until 1946 - the city of Tilsit), formerly part of the 40th Guards Tank Division, was reported.[2] It was reported that the new regiment would form part of the newly forming motor rifle division of the 11th Army Corps, likely a revived 1st Guards Motor Rifle Division. Sovetsk is located on the banks of the Neman River on the border with Lithuania, where the shortest land route to the border with the main part of Russia begins.

The Corps included an artillery brigade (with BM-27 Uragan and BM-30 Smerch heavy rocket launchers), missile and motor rifle brigades, and regiments for tanks, motor rifle and air defense.[3]

Military actions edit

After February 24, 2022, the corps was committed to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 26th October 2022, Reuters published a special report regarding the defeat and retreat of an 11th Army detachment under colonel Ivan Popov and thousands of documents left in a base in Balakliia after the Ukrainian eastern Kharkiv counteroffensive 6-8th September.[4]

In October 2022 American military correspondent David Axe claimed that the 11th Army Corps was destroyed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and would "almost certainly require many months to rest, re-equip and induct draftees in order to regain even a fraction of its former strength."[5]

Structure edit

  • Headquarters Staff (Gusev) в/ч 54259 [1] [6]
  • 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Gusev and Sovetsk)[7][8]
    • 79th Motor Rifle Regiment в/ч 90151
    • 275th Motor Rifle Regiment
    • 280th Motor Rifle Regiment
    • 11th Tank Regiment в/ч 41611
    • 22nd Independent Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Kaliningrad)
  • 7th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment [ru] (Kaliningrad)
  • 9th Motor Rifle Regiment
  • 27th Coastal Missile Brigade[9]
  • 152nd Guards Rocket Brigade [ru] (Chernyakhovsk) The brigade traces its history back to the 3rd Destroyer (istrebitel'nye) Brigade of the 2nd Destroyer Division, in the combined-arms anti-tank role.[10] The brigade's first action was at the Battle of Kursk.[11] Twelve soldiers were awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union. [12] The 3rd Destroyer Brigade was raised to Guards status on August 10, 1943, with the same original number retained. The formation was in the ranks of the Active Army [ru] (the troops fighting on the frontline) from June 12, 1942 to August 10, 1943 and from September 14, 1943 to May 9, 1945. In July-August 1943, it fought as part of the 70th Army at the Battle of Kursk. Initially, the unit was formed as the 3rd Destroyer Brigade. It then became the 3rd Guards Destroyer Brigade and was eventually reorganized in 1943 into the 3rd Guards Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade.[13] After the war, the brigade was in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and reported directly to the command of the Group of Forces. The formation was stationed in the area of Strelitz-Alt (or Alt-Strelitz) (de:Strelitz-Alt / Altstrelitz) in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the German Democratic Republic. In the 1960s, the brigade was reorganized into a missile formation. In the late 1980s, in the process of disbanding the GSFG, the brigade (military unit 96759) was withdrawn to Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast.[14]
  • 244th Artillery Brigade (Kaliningrad)
  • 46th Independent Reconnaissance Battalion (Gusev)[15][16]
  • 40th Independent Command Battalion (Gusev)
  • 20th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion в/ч 12563
  • 22nd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

Commanders edit

  • Major-General Yuri Yarovitsky [ru] (2016 - 2020)
  • Major-General Andrey Ruzinsky [ru] (Since August 2020)[17]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Командующий БФ вручил штандарт командиру армейского корпуса в Гусеве" (in Russian). gusev-online.ru. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Formation of the 75th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment in the Kaliningrad Region". ВПК.name. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
  3. ^ "Russian Forces in the Western Military District" (PDF). CNA (nonprofit). June 2021. p. 44, 52. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 October 2022.
  4. ^ Mari Saito, Maria Tsvetkova and Anton Zverev (October 26, 2022). "Abandoned Russian base holds secrets of retreat in Ukraine". Reuters.
  5. ^ David Axe (October 27, 2022). "12,000 Russian Troops Were Supposed To Defend Kaliningrad. Then They Went To Ukraine To Die". Forbes.
  6. ^ "RUSSIAN REGULAR GROUND FORCES ORDER OF BATTLE" (PDF). October 2023.
  7. ^ "Замминистра обороны РФ генерал-полковник Андрей Картаполов вручил историческое знамя мотострелковой дивизии армейского корпуса БФ" (in Russian). Ministry of Defence (Russia). 3 March 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  8. ^ "В Калининградской области продолжается строительство и модернизация инфраструктуры военных городков армейского корпуса Балтийского флота" (in Russian). Ministry of Defence (Russia). 29 January 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  9. ^ "RUSSIAN REGULAR GROUND FORCES ORDER OF BATTLE" (PDF). October 2023.
  10. ^ See Glantz, Colossus Reborn, 184-5, for destroyer forces.
  11. ^ "В Черняховске подздравляли ракетчиков". Администрация муниципального образования «Черняховский городской округ». Archived from the original on 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  12. ^ "Знаменитое ракетное соединение из Черняховска отмечает юбилей". Вести-Калининград. 2017-05-03. Archived from the original on 2021-04-17. Retrieved 2019-05-17."У 152-й гвардейской - Юбилей!". Администрация муниципального образования «Черняховский городской округ». 2018-08-10. Archived from the original on 2018-08-13. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  13. ^ List No. 7 of the Directorates of brigades of all types of troops that were part of the active army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Moscow. 1960. pp. 96, 131.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ^ Feskov 2013, pp. 292, 389.
  15. ^ "Создание 11-го армейского корпуса позволит при необходимости быстро нарастить группировку войск в Калининградской области - источник" (in Russian). militarynews.ru. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  16. ^ "В Калининградской области военные отрабатывают общевойсковую операцию" (in Russian). rossaprimavera.ru. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  17. ^ "Командующий Балтийским флотом представил личному составу нового командира армейского корпуса" (in Russian). Ministry of Defence (Russia). 17 August 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2021.

Works cited edit

  • 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.

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