Once formed its order of battle was as follows: Kombrig Feofan Agopovich Parkhomenko was appointed to command on March 11.

By July 1 the Soviet general staff was listing it as "without equipment", meaning it had lost virtually all its transport and heavy weapons.

[4] The scattered elements of 20th Mechanized Corps had been assigned to 13th Army by the beginning of July, still in Western Front,[5] and were falling back to the Dniepr River in the vicinity of Mogilev.

[6] This city was being threatened by the advance of the German XXIV Motorized Corps and was being held by the remnants of eight to ten divisions.

The 493rd Self-propelled Artillery Battalion of 12 SU-76s was added to the 210th to provide fully-tracked mobile firepower given the difficult and mostly roadless terrain to be found in Manchuria.

When the Manchurian operation began the 36th Army was in a secondary role on the western flank of the invading forces and saw very little combat before the Japanese capitulation on August 20.