The army was first formed during the Winter War, in which two of its divisions fought in the Battle of Petsamo.

Stationed on the Chukchi Peninsula, the army's mission was to invade Alaska in event of a war.

[4] From the middle of July the 14th Army was able to stop Finnish enemy forces advance, and subsequently until October 1944 (from 23 August 1941 as part of the Karelian Front) it solidly retained its sector positions, and conducted active offensive combat for the purpose of improvement in the position it occupied.

131st Rifle Corps has released 10/17/1944 to the state border and entered 18 October 1944 on Norwegian soil.

31st Rifle Corps, without forcing the bay, and ran down the deep south, and reached Nausta 27 October 1944, coming on the Norwegian-Finnish border.

The 127th Light Rifle Corps carried out an offensive attack in the same direction, but on the western shore of the Fjord.

While the German forces evacuated and burned the far north of Norway, using scorched earth tactics, the Soviet advance was halted at the Tana River.

Subsequently, until the end of the war the army defended the newly occupied territory and the state borders of the USSR with Finland and Norway.