[1] Narodnaya Armiya, the official newspaper of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, states that the corps was formed in 1967.

[4] Initially, its units included Corps Headquarters, the 52nd (moved to Nizhneudinsk in April 1969),[5] 126th and 157th Motor Rifle Divisions, 9th Separate Engineer-Sapper Battalion (оисб), 19 окр (Independent Commandant's Point?)

Also in the same year, the 126th Motor Rifle Division was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet and the 711th Territorial Training Centre was disbanded.

Corps headquarters was at Simferopol, responsible to Operational Command South and then HQ Ukrainian Ground Forces.

[8] Source: Joint Publications Research Service, Central Eurasia, Director of Military Organizations and Personnel, JPRS-UMA-92-043, 2 December 1992, 185.; Also from [4][3]