From January to April 1942, it fought in the Lyuban offensive operation, an unsuccessful attempt to relieve Leningrad.

In early December, it helped construct the Cherepovets Fortified Area and improved the defensive line on the eastern shore of Lake Beloye and the Sheksna River.

Subsequently, the army conducted an offensive in the Luga sector and on 26 January reached the Leningrad-Dno rail line.

Operating jointly with the 67th Army of the Leningrad Front it destroyed the German troops in the Luga area.

In the last ten days of March the army took defensive positions on the east bank of Chudskoye Lake, on a line from Vasknarva to Gdov, and held it until the summer of 1944.

[1] At the beginning of June the army was relocated to the Karelian Isthmus and during the Vyborg offensive (10 to 20 June) elements of the 59th Army, in cooperation with the Baltic Fleet, conducted a landing operation and cleared islands in Vyborg Bay from Finnish troops.

From 10 July to 21 September the army defended the islands and the coast of Vyborg Bay, and after Finland left the war, the army guarded the border on the Karelian Isthmus, from the Vuoksi river to the Gulf of Finland.

By the end of January the army reached the Oder, forced a crossing and took a bridgehead on the left bank in the area of Dzelnitsa (south of Kędzierzyn-Koźle).

Continuing the offensive, by 20 March the army reached the foothills of the Sudetes on the border of Poland and Czechoslovakia.