It was stationed around the city of Zhytomyr, in the western Ukrainian SSR, part of the Carpathian Military District.

The 8th Mechanised Army was initially formed on 12 June 1946 with its headquarters at Zhytomyr in the Carpathian Military District, under the command of Nikolay Pukhov.

During Operation Whirlwind in October and November 1956, the army headquarters was moved to Debrecen, and its troops occupied the eastern part of Hungary on the left bank of the Danube.

On 1 October 1960 the 41st Guards Tank Division became a training unit and was directly subordinated to the Carpathian Military District.

The 8th Tank Army was subordinated to the Carpathian Front during the operation and was moved to southern Poland.

[6] After the end of the Prague Spring the 31st Tank Division remained in Czechoslovakia with the Central Group of Forces.

Stationed in Ukraine, after dissolution of the Soviet Union the army was reorganized as Ukrainian military formation 8th Army Corps on 1 December 1993,[7] whilst commanded by Lieutenant General Aleksey Mikhaylovich Torshin.