11th Army Corps (Russian Federation)

rdf:langString 11th Army Corps (Russian Federation)

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rdf:langString Major General Andrey Ruzinsky

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rdf:langString The 11th Army Corps, (Russian: 11-й армейский корпус, romanized: 11-y Armeyskiy Korpus) is a tactical formation of the Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy, formed in 2016 as part of the Baltic Fleet, in the Western Military District. The corps is located in Kaliningrad Oblast, with its headquarters in the city of Gusev. The corps was formed on 1 April 2016, and operates from Kaliningrad Oblast. Its first commander was . On 1 February 2021 the revival of the 75th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment at Sovetsk (until 1946 - the city of Tilsit), formerly part of the , was reported. It was reported that the new regiment would form part of the newly forming motor rifle division of the 11th Army Corps, likely a revived 1st Guards Motor Rifle Division. Sovetsk is located on the banks of the Neman River on the border with Lithuania, where the shortest land route to the border with the main part of Russia begins. The Corps included an artillery brigade (with BM-27 Uragan and BM-30 Smerch heavy rocket launchers), missile and motor rifle brigades, and regiments for tanks, motor rifle and air defense. After February 24, 2022, the Corps was committed to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 26th October 2022, Reuters published a special report regarding the defeat and retreat of an 11th Army detachment under colonel Ivan Popov and thousands of documents left in a base in Balakliia after the Ukrainian eastern Kharkiv counteroffensive 6-8th September. In October 2022 American military correspondent David Axe claimed that the 11th Army Corps was destroyed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and would "almost certainly require many months to rest, re-equip and induct draftees in order to regain even a fraction of its former strength."