[2] It was initially composed of the Immediately upon forming the 8th Cavalry Corps was assigned to the Bryansk Front.
In July it went into battle with the Bryansk Front against the northern flank of the German summer offensive.
In October it moved south and was assigned to the 5th Tank Army in November for Operation Uranus.
[4] in which they had the task of cutting the railroad in the region of the stations Bolshaya Osipovka, Surovikino, and Oblivskaya.
Attached to the Corps was: In 1943, on January 30 from the area of the Seversky Donets river, the Corps went over to the offensive in the direction of Voroshilovgrad (now Lugansk) as part of the 3rd Guards Army under the command of lieutenant general Dmitry Lelyushenko, where it was engaged in furious fighting on the approaches to the city.
At dawn on February 14 began the assault, as a result of which the first provincial city in central Ukraine was liberated.
Although the main role in this operation was played by the 59th, 243rd, 279th Guard rifle divisions, 2nd Guard and 2nd Tank Corps, active assistance in the liberation of Lugansk was rendered by the 8th Cavalry Corps now under the command of General Major M.D.
After returning to Soviet lines and due to the heavy losses from the Stalingrad offensive and the cavalry raid the Corps was sent into the reserves to rebuild.
From late September 1943 to March 1944 the corps operated in the 61ast or 65th Armies of the Belorussian Front, trying to enlarge the penetration south of Gomel.
The group then turned north into Pomerania, where it spent two months clearing the flanks of the Soviet penetration of German lines.