29th Rifle Corps

The 29th Rifle Corps (Lithuanian: 29-asis teritorinis šaulių korpusas) was formed several times in the Soviet Red Army, each formation primarily seeing combat on the Eastern Front during World War II.

The first formation of the 29th Rifle Corps was known as the 29th Lithuanian Territorial Rifle Corps, composed of troops of the former Lithuanian army, active from the Soviet Union's annexation of Lithuania in August 1940 until September 1941.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, began on June 22, 1941.

On July 21, 1941, the corps appears to have taken Velikiye Luki, and defended it until August 25, 1941, when the city was again abandoned.

Originally formed on 25 June 1943,[5] Included 55th Rifle Division (IIIrd Formation), in September–October–November 1943 while part of 60th Army.

[7] In May 1946, the corps was reorganized under a peacetime structure, with its divisions being reduced to the 8th, 9th and 39th Separate Rifle Brigades.