It was activated during World War II in August 1944 and became a rifle corps in December of that year.

The corps served at Tula until its 1955 disbandment when the Soviet airborne was reorganized.

[2]In January 1945, the corps transferred to Hungary with the rest of the 9th Guards Army.

[3][4] It fought during the Vienna Offensive, where its 104th Guards Rifle Division captured Sankt Pölten.

[2][7] The corps briefly became part of the Central Group of Forces before it was relocated to Ivanovo in the Moscow Military District in the summer of 1945.

The 689th Separate Communications Battalion was directly subordinated to corps headquarters around this time.