On 22 June 1941 it was part of the
Transcaucasian Military District comprising the
136th and
138th Rifle Divisions. The
45th Army was formed in late July 1941 in the
Transcaucasian Military District from the Staff of 23rd Rifle Corps. At the end of the war the corps joined the new
Central Group of Forces in Austria and Czechoslovakia. In accordance with an order of the Central Group of Forces, the
252nd Rifle Division was transported by rail to the Soviet Union via
Kaposvár, Budapest,
Sighet,
Rostov, and
Mineralnye Vody, with the rest of the 23rd Rifle Corps from 20 December 1945. By February 15, 1946 the 252nd Rifle Division had fully arrived in the
Stavropol Military District (merged into the
North Caucasus Military District shortly afterwards). The
295th Rifle Division (Second Formation) was relocated after the end of the war from the GSFG in Germany to
Stavropol in the North Caucasus Military District with the 23rd Rifle Corps, where it became the 30th Separate Rifle Brigade in 1946. In October 1953, the brigade was upgraded into the 295th Rifle Division. The 23rd Rifle Corps was reformed in accordance with a
General Staff directive of 4 March 1955 and a
Ministry of Defense order of 13 June, by renumbering the
79th Rifle Corps in the
Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. Its headquarters was disbanded on 4 July 1956, with its divisions directly subordinated to the
3rd Army headquarters. == Units ==