43rd Army Corps

43-й армейский корпус

Military Unit: 16460

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Romanovich Gnechko, 5.12.45 - 5.50
• Lieutenant-General Viktor Kazimirovich Urbanovich, 5.50 - 4.53
• Major-General Evgeniy Leonidovich Korkuts, 2.6.53 -13.10.54
• Major-General Arakel Karapetovich Oganezov, 13.10.54 - 10.2.56
• Major-General Arkhip Tikhonovich Golubev, 4.5.56 - 31.10.58
• Major-General Ivan Nikolaevich Veremey, 1.59 - 4.61
• no data, 4.61 - 1973
• Major-General Aleksandr Vasilevich Kovtunov, 1973 - 1977
• Major-General Nikolay Vasilevich Kalinin, 6.77 - 9.79
• no data, 9.79 - 6.85
• Major-General Yuriy Fyodorovich Shchepin, 13.6.85 - 16.7.87
• no data, 7.97 - 10.89

Activated 5.12.45 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, Kamchatskaya Oblast, as the 137th Rifle Corps.

13.6.55 renamed 43rd Rifle Corps.

25.6.57 renamed 43rd Army Corps.

Organisation 1960:

• 22nd Motorised Rifle Division (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, Kamchatskaya Oblast)
• 414th independent Motorised Rifle Regiment (Ugolnye Kopi, Chukotskiy Autonomous Okrug)

Organisation 1970:

• 272nd Motorised Rifle Division (Babstovo, Yevreyskaya Autonomous Oblast)
• 118th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) (Birobidzhan, Yevreyskaya Autonomous Oblast)
• 3rd Fortified Area (Leninsk, Amur Oblast)

Organisation 1980:

• 272nd Motorised Rifle Division (Babstovo, Yevreyskaya Autonomous Oblast)
• 118th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) (Birobidzhan, Yevreyskaya Autonomous Oblast)
• 3rd Fortified Area (Leninsk, Amur Oblast)

In 1987 the 118th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) was disbanded.

Organisation 1988:

• 272nd Motorised Rifle Division (Babstovo, Yevreyskaya Autonomous Oblast)
• 3rd Fortified Area (Leninsk, Amur Oblast)

Disbanded 10.10.89.

Headquarters:

• Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, Kamchatskaya Oblast, 12.45 - 5.69
• Birobidzhan, Yevreyskaya ASSR, 5.69 - 10.89

Subordination:

• Far Eastern Military District, 12.45 - 10.89