ex 30th Tank Corps. Now 10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division. 11th Guards Tank Corps – The 11th Guards Tank Division can trace its history back to 10 April 1942 when the 6th Tank Corps was formed in the Moscow Defense Zone. It took part in the Battle of Kursk, then across Ukraine with the Central, Belorussian, and 1st Belorussian Fronts. On 23 October 1943, it was awarded ‘Guards’ status and redesignated the 11th Guards Tank Corps. It ended the war in the Berlin area. As part of the occupation forces, it was reorganized as the 11th Guards Tank Division and assigned to the 1st Guards Tank Army (also called 1st Guards Mechanised Army during 1946–1957). For the occupation period and post-war era, it was mainly uneventful until 1968 when it took part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1992 it was withdrawn from Germany and landed in Slonim the newly independent Belarus. It would eventually be reorganized into the 11th Guards Mechanised Brigade. Division Headquarters was at Dresden in the 1980s. 12th Guards Tank Corps – former 16th Tank Corps. 16 TC was formed on 1 June 1942 in the Moscow Defense Zone. On 20 November 1944, it was awarded ‘Guards’ status and re-designated the 12th Guards Tank Corps. In later 1945, it was reorganized into the 12th Guards Tank Division. Composition of a tank corps 29 May 1942 Corps HQ Signal Company AAMG (anti-aircraft machine gun) Section Heavy Tank Brigade with KV-1 or KV-2 tanks (Replaced by a third 'medium' tank brigade in July 1942) 2 (Medium) Tank Brigades with two battalions of T-34 and one of T-70 tanks each. Motorized Rifle Brigade Anti-aircraft Battalion Guards Mortar Battalion with Katyusha rocket launchers Motorcycle Battalion (for reconnaissance) Engineer-Mine Company Truck Company Motorized Vehicle Repair Battalion Armored Vehicle Repair Battalion Snipers See also Cavalry corps (Soviet Union) Mechanised corps (Soviet Union) Rifle corps (Soviet Union) References Citations Bibliography Through the Furnace of War – Article on the development of Red Army armoured formations Dupuy Institute Forum Discussion on Tank/Mech Corps Article on the History of Red Army Mechanised Forces Books David Glantz, The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June – August 1941, 19 Page, J. and Bean, Tim 'Russian Tanks of World War II', Zenith Press Charles Sharp, Soviet Order of Battle in World War II Vol 1: The Deadly Beginning: Soviet Tank, Mechanized, Motorized Divisions and