Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An kafa Rukunin 'Yan bindiga na 40 a ranar 16 ga Afrilu 1930 a matsayin rukunin yanki daga Rundunar' Yan bindiga ta 7 ta Krasnoyarsk a Krasnoyarsk, Achinsk da Kansk. A watan Janairun 1932, an canza shi zuwa rundunar soji kuma a watan Oktoba aka koma Razdolny, Nadezhdinsky District, Primorsky Krai. Ya zuwa watan Fabrairun 1934, yana da tushe a Posyet, Slavyanka, Novokievka da Barabash a gundumar Khasan na Primorsky Krai. Rukunin ya zama wani ɓangare na 39th Rifle Corps a watan Mayu 1936. An ba shi lambar girmamawa "mai suna don Sergo Ordzhonikidze" a ranar 14 ga Afrilu 1937. A lokacin rani na 1938, rukunin ya yi yaƙi a yakin Lake Khasan a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Kanar V.K. Bazarov. Don ayyukansa a cikin yaƙin, an ba shi lambar yabo ta Lenin. A cikin watan Agusta 1945, ya yi yaƙi a cikin
Soviet mamaye Manchuria a matsayin wani ɓangare na 25th Rifle Corps. Rundunar 'yan bindigar ta 3, wacce Laftanar Kanar Mikhail Abarmov ke jagoranta, ta tsallaka kan iyaka a yankin Grodekovo na Primorsky Krai kuma ta yanke layin dogo a bayan Japan. Ya yi yaƙi a yaƙin Laoling Pass. A lokacin Harbin<unk>Kirin Operation, sashin ya karya tsaron Japan a ranar 10 ga Agusta kuma ya ci gaba da kilomita 20. A ranar 11 ga watan Agusta, rukunin ya taimaka wajen kama Laoheyshan da Hunchun. A cikin haɗin gwiwa tare da harin amphibious na 12 ga watan Agusta da sojojin Pacific Fleet suka yi, sashin ya kama Unga da Najin a gabar gabashin Koriya. A ranar 15 ga watan Agusta, sun kama Wangqing, Chongjin a ranar 16 ga watan Agusta, Rana da Yanji a ranar 17 ga watan Agusta bayan Jafananci sun mika wuya. A watan Oktoba, an tura rukunin zuwa Hoyren a Koriya ta Arewa, inda ya kasance har zuwa Fabrairu 1946. Don ayyukanta a lokacin yakin, an ba da sashin umarnin Suvorov na aji na biyu.