39th Guards Venskiy Airborne Corps

39-й гвардейский воздушно-десантный Венский корпус

Military Unit: 63051

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Fyodorovich Tikhonov, 9.8.44 - 6.46
• Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kazankin, 6.46 - 10.47
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Semyonovich Bezuglyy, 3.2.48 - 7.2.50
• Major-General Nikolay Tarielovich Tavartkiladze, 7.2.50 - 27.1.54
• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Mitrofanovich Shatilov, 27.1.51 - 1.12.55

Activated 9.8.44 as the 39th Guards Airborne Corps.

5.1.45 renamed 39th Guards Rifle Corps.

10.6.46 renamed 39th Guards Airborne Corps.

Organisation 1947:

• 100th Guards Airborne Division (Kirovograd, Kirovograd Oblast)
• 107th Guards Airborne Division (Krivoi Rog, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast)

1.10.48 the 31st Guards Airborne Division was activated.

Organisation 1955:

• 31st Guards Airborne Division (Novograd-Volynskiy, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 100th Guards Airborne Division (Kirovograd, Kirovograd Oblast)
• 107th Guards Airborne Division (Krivoi Rog, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast)

25.4.55 the 100th Guards Airborne Division was disbanded.

Disbanded 1.12.55.

Headquarters:

• Belaya Tserkov, Kiev Oblast, 7.45 - 11.5.47
• Krivoi Rog, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, 11.5.47 - 1.12.55

Subordination:

• 9th Guards Combined Arms Army, 1.45 - 10.6.46
• HQ VDV, 10.6.46 - 1.12.55