43rd Army Corps (Soviet Union)

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]