85th Rifle Corps
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The 85th Rifle Corps (Russian: 85-й стрелковый корпус) was a rifle corps of the Red Army and later the Soviet Army.
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85th Rifle Corps | |
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Active | September 1943–January 1954 |
Country | Soviet Union |
Branch | Red Army (Soviet Army from 1946) |
Type | Infantry (Rifle corps) |
Engagements | Soviet invasion of Manchuria (part of World War II) |
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Formed in 1943 as part of the 17th Army of the Transbaikal Front, the corps spent the next two years as a garrison unit. In August 1945 its headquarters was used to provide a headquarters for the Soviet–Mongolian Cavalry-Mechanized Group during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. Postwar, the corps garrisoned the Kuril Islands before being disbanded in the early 1950s.