8th Estonian Rifle Corps

[3] The first formation of the 8th Rifle Corps was destroyed in the first three months of the German invasion and is not present on the Soviet order of battle after August 1941.

[citation needed] In the order of battle, the corps appears in the Stavka Reserves by 1 November 1942 and is subordinated to the Kalinin Front by 1 December 1942.

[5] When 2nd formation was formed in 1942, the corps' structure consisted of the 7th and 249th Rifle Divisions stationed in Estonia, reinforced by volunteers from the Estonian Communist Party organisation.

The corps fought a total 916 days in the war, and at different times it was in service on the Kalinin, the Leningrad and the 2nd Baltic Front.

Of those, 3,425 (20.7%) started to work in the administrative or legal bodies of the Soviet occupation regime (Communist Party, Komsomol, trade unions etc.).

Tankists of the corps' 221st "For Soviet Estonia" Separate Tank Regiment in front of a T-34-76 during exercises in vicinity of Kingisepp, mid-1944
A soldier of the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps embraces his wife in Tallinn, 22 September 1944