43rd Army Corps (Soviet Union)

137th Rifle Corps (1945–1955)

43rd Rifle Corps (II) (1955–1957)

43rd Army Corps (1957–1989)
137th Rifle Corps (1945–1955); 43rd Rifle Corps (II) (1955–1957); 43rd Army Corps (1957–1989)
Active	1945–1989
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Soviet Army
Type	Infantry
Part of	Far Eastern Military District

The 43rd Army Corps (Military Unit Number 16460) was a corps of the Soviet Army from 1945 to 1989. The corps was first formed as the 137th Rifle Corps in late 1945 and became the 43rd Rifle Corps (Second Formation) in 1955. The corps was redesignated as the 43rd Army Corps in 1957 and was based in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. In 1969, it moved to Birobidzhan as a result of the Sino-Soviet border conflict. The corps was disbanded in 1989 was a result of Soviet troop reductions at the end of the Cold War.^[1]

History

The 137th Rifle Corps was formed on 5 December 1945 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, part of the

14th Assault Army in Chukotka its 3rd and 8th Separate Rifle Brigades became part of the corps. ^[3]

In April 1955, the corps became the 43rd Rifle Corps (Second Formation). In 1955 the 255th Rifle Division was renamed the

35th Army.^[3]

Commanders

The following officers commanded the corps.[1]^[3]

Lieutenant General Alexey Gnechko (5 December 1945 – May 1950)
Lieutenant General Viktor Urbanovich (May 1950 – April 1953)
Major General Yevgeny Korkuts (2 June 1953 – 13 October 1954)
Major General Arakel Oganezov (13 October 1954 – 10 February 1956)
Major General Arkhip Golubev (4 May 1956 – 31 October 1958)
Major General Ivan Veremey (January 1959 – April 1961)
Not known (1961–73)
Major General Alexander Kovtunov (1973–77)
Major General
Nikolay Vasilevich Kalinin
(1977–79)
Not known (1979–85)
Major General Yuriy Fyodorovich Shchepin (1985–87)
Not known (1987–89)

Composition

During the late 1980s the corps included the following units.^[3]

203rd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Birobidzhan)
907th Separate Air Assault Battalion
(Birobidzhan)
688th Separate Communications Battalion (Birobidzhan)
Separate Radio Engineering Battalion PVO (Birobidzhan)
Material Support Brigade (Birobidzhan)
Repair and Replacement Base (Birobidzhan)
8th Separate Armored Train (Birobidzhan)
23rd Rocket Brigade
(Sopka)
Cannon Artillery Regiment (Babstovo)
272nd Motor Rifle Division (Babstovo)
118th Motor Rifle Division (Mobilization) (Birobidzhan)
3rd Fortified Region (Leninsk)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Holm, Michael. "43rd Army Corps". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
^ "Гнечко Алексей Романович" [Gnechko Alexey Romanovich]. www.warheroes.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-02-02.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Feskov et al 2013, pp. 597–598
^ "125th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
^ "272nd Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
^ "118th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
^ "3rd Fortified Area". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-02.

Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing.
ISBN 9785895035306
.

[:0-1] Holm, Michael. "43rd Army Corps". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-02.

[2] "Гнечко Алексей Романович" [Gnechko Alexey Romanovich]. www.warheroes.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-02-02.

[:1-3] Feskov et al 2013, pp. 597–598

[4] "125th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-02.

[5] "272nd Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-02.

[6] "118th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-02.

[7] "3rd Fortified Area". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-02.

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