By 1935 it was named in honor of Vladimir Triandafillov and included the 2nd Corps Artillery Regiment at Ryazan and the 84th Rifle Division (Territorial) at Tula.
When Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began on 22 June, the corps, under the command of Major General Arkady Yermakov (who became commander on 29 July 1940),[3] was part of the Western Special Military District, with the 100th and 161st Rifle Divisions assigned.
With the 13th Army of the Western Front, the 2nd Rifle Corps participated in the Battle of Bialystok-Minsk near the Minsk and Slutsk Fortified Regions during late June and early July 1941.
[2][7] The corps was reformed in May 1942 under the command of Major General Daniil Petrov from 28 May.
On 28 March 1960 the 2nd Army Corps was reformed at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast.