[1] The 37th Guards Rifle Corps was created in the Moscow Military District from airborne divisions converted into infantry on 19 January 1944.

[2][3] In June 1944, the corps was transferred to the line of the Svir River to fight in the Svir-Petrozavodsk Operation.

Between 11 and 15 June, the corps detrained at Pasha and Oyat stations in Leningrad Oblast and concentrated 40 kilometers south of Lodeynoye Pole.

Elements of the corps cut the Olonets-Petrozavodsk road on 25 June and captured Olonets on the same day.

By 4 July, the corps was on the Tulemajoki River, but was only able to advance 15 to 20 kilometers from it due to strong Finnish opposition.