The corps headquarters was first formed during September 1939 in the Volga Military District.
Major General Tikhon Butorin briefly commanded it in early August, followed by Major General Dmitry Stankevsky for a few days.
Major General Pyotr Koshevoy, promoted to lieutenant general on 17 May 1944, commanded the corps from late August to late May 1944.
He was replaced by Major General Fyodor Bakunin, who commanded the corps for the rest of the war except for a brief period in April 1945, when he was replaced by Colonel Anatoly Nekrasov.
[4] On 4 June 1957 it was redesignated as the 63rd Army Corps, but was disbanded by the early 1960s.