The corps began forming on 22 February 1943 at the Moscow Armored Training Center near Naro-Fominsk, and soon became part of the new 5th Guards Tank Army.

[1] By 12 March, the corps concentrated 30 kilometers southwest of Millerovo, where it was joined by combat support units and received reinforcements.

[2] After reaching the Ostrogozhsk area, the corps began intensive combat training on 1 April in anticipation of upcoming operations.

[6] Feskov et al. 2013 says that it became the 6313th Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment[7] while divisional history sites say rather than the 6297th Property Storage Base (Russian: 6297 база хранения имущества (БХИ)) was formed on its basis, with "limited tasks and capabilities."

The 29th Base in Slutsk was equipped with a TKNT-3B modern computer simulator for main-gun training of three crews of T-72B tanks at the same time.