The corps entered combat on the Southwestern Front on 19 July 1943 on the right bank of the Seversky Donets in the Izyum bridgehead.
On 24 October the corps crossed the Dnieper and on the next day the 39th Guards and the 152nd Rifle Division of the 46th Army captured Dnepropetrovsk.
15 soldiers of the corps were made Heroes of the Soviet Union for their actions in the fighting, among them Lieutenant Colonel Yu.M.
In June, the corps and the 8th Guards Army were shifted to the left wing of the 1st Belorussian Front.
During the Lublin–Brest Offensive, the corps broke through German defenses west of Kovel, crossed the Western Bug, entered Polish territory, and captured Lublin on 24 July.