Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Rukunin ya fara tarihinsa a matsayin 13th Tank Corps na Red Army, wanda aka kafa a watan Afrilu 1942 a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu kuma ya yi yaƙi a cikin harin Soviet da Case Blue,
Yaƙin Voronezh, da yaƙin Stalingrad. Sojojin sun rasa tankuna da yawa wanda aka sake tsara shi tare da tsarin rukunin inji a watan Nuwamba, kodayake ya riƙe sunan 13th Tank Corps. Don ayyukansa, rundunar ta zama ta 4th Guards Mechanized Corps a farkon 1943 kuma ta sami lambar girmamawa ta Stalingrad. Ya ci gaba da yin yaƙi a cikin yaƙi don yawancin sauran yaƙin, yana karɓar Dokar Red Banner don rawar da ya taka a cikin Nikopol<unk>Krivoi Rog Offensive na farkon 1944, Dokar Suvorov, aji na 2 don ayyukanta a cikin Odessa Offensive, da Dokar Kutuzov, aji na 2 don ayyukanta a cikin Na biyu Jassy<unk>Kishinev Offensive. A cikin watannin ƙarshe na yaƙin rundunar ta ci gaba zuwa Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, da kudancin Czechoslovakia kafin a janye ta zuwa ajiyar.