Participation of the 9th rifle corps in the Kerch-Feodosian landing operation and the battles for the expansion of the bridgehead

With the use of archival documents, the actions of units and formations of the 9th rifle corps of the 44th army of the Caucasian front during the liberation of Feodosia and in the battles for the expansion of the bridgehead in the South-Eastern Crimea are revealed. In fact, the rifle corps during the operation was disbanded in the context of the General process of reducing the red Army corps, but contributed to the liberation of part of the territory of the Crimea in early 1942.