85th Rifle Corps

85th Rifle Corps
ActiveSeptember 1943–January 1954
CountrySoviet Union
BranchRed Army (Soviet Army from 1946)
TypeInfantry (Rifle corps)
EngagementsSoviet invasion of Manchuria (part of World War II)

The 85th Rifle Corps (Russian: 85-й стрелковый корпус) was a rifle corps of the Red Army and later the Soviet Army.

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.


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