Commanding Officers
- Lieutenant-General Pshennikov P.S. (May - August 1941);
- Lieutenant-General Gerasimov M.N. (August - September 1941);
- Major-General A.I. Cherepanov (September 1941 - July 1944; promoted Lieutenant General in September 1943);
- Lieutenant-General V.I. Shvetsov (July 1944. - to the end of the war).
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