Northern Front (Soviet Union) - 65th Rifle Corps

65th Rifle Corps

  • 65th Rifle Corps (less its Corps artillery regiments) was a separate Corps which covered the No.4 Defence Sector of the Front which covered the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland with its HQ in Nimma 9 km south of Tallinn and included two divisions
11th Rifle Division
16th Rifle Division (Ist formation; 22 June 1941 - 27 December 1941)
4th Air Division (from the Leningrad Military District)

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