16th Rifle Corps

16th Rifle Corps
16th Rifle Corps
Active	1st formation: November 1922 – August 1941; 2nd formation: November 1942 – July 1945;
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Branch	Soviet Red Army
Engagements	Soviet invasion of Poland; Eastern Front (World War II) Operation Barbarossa; Baltic Operation; Leningrad Strategic Defensive; ;
Battle honours	Kalisz (2nd formation)
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Yan Latsis; Georgy Sofronov; Aleksei Grechkin; Konstantin Provalov

The 16th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army, formed twice.

It took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 and destroyed in the Baltic Operation during Operation Barbarossa. Reformed in 1942, the corps fought through the rest of the war on the Eastern Front, and was disbanded immediately postwar.

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