diff --git a/docs/rpc.md b/docs/rpc.md
index 3e0b2fa81..acf02bdf0 100644
--- a/docs/rpc.md
+++ b/docs/rpc.md
@@ -174,10 +174,12 @@ These methods provide the ability of *historical* calls and accept block hash or
 block index or stateroot hash as the first parameter and the list of parameters
 that is the same as of `invokecontractverify`, `invokefunction` and
 `invokescript` correspondingly. The historical call assumes that the contracts'
-storage state has all its values got from MPT with the specified stateroot and
-the transaction will be invoked using interop context with block of the specified
-height. This allows to perform test invocation using the specified past chain
-state. These methods may be useful for debugging purposes.
+storage state has all its values got from MPT with the specified stateroot (or,
+which is the same, with the stateroot of the block of the specified height) and
+the transaction will be invoked using interop context with block which is next to
+the block with the specified height. This allows to perform test invocation using
+the specified past chain state. These methods may be useful for debugging
+purposes.
 
 Behavior note: any historical RPC call need the historical chain state to be
 presented in the node storage, thus if the node keeps only latest MPT state
diff --git a/pkg/core/blockchain.go b/pkg/core/blockchain.go
index bd2a7d318..c0e386c8c 100644
--- a/pkg/core/blockchain.go
+++ b/pkg/core/blockchain.go
@@ -2187,7 +2187,11 @@ func (bc *Blockchain) GetTestHistoricVM(t trigger.Type, tx *transaction.Transact
 		}
 		mode |= mpt.ModeGCFlag
 	}
-	sr, err := bc.stateRoot.GetStateRoot(b.Index)
+	if b.Index < 1 || b.Index > bc.BlockHeight()+1 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unsupported historic chain's height: requested state for %d, chain height %d", b.Index, bc.blockHeight)
+	}
+	// Assuming that block N-th is processing during historic call, the historic invocation should be based on the storage state of height N-1.
+	sr, err := bc.stateRoot.GetStateRoot(b.Index - 1)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to retrieve stateroot for height %d: %w", b.Index, err)
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/rpc/server/server.go b/pkg/rpc/server/server.go
index 91eabe359..6e37d75a5 100644
--- a/pkg/rpc/server/server.go
+++ b/pkg/rpc/server/server.go
@@ -1780,9 +1780,9 @@ func (s *Server) getHistoricParams(reqParams request.Params) (*block.Block, *res
 			height = int(b.Index)
 		}
 	}
-	b, err := s.getFakeNextBlock(uint32(height))
+	b, err := s.getFakeNextBlock(uint32(height + 1))
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, response.NewInternalServerError(fmt.Sprintf("can't create fake block for height %d: %s", height, err))
+		return nil, response.NewInternalServerError(fmt.Sprintf("can't create fake block for height %d: %s", height+1, err))
 	}
 	return b, nil
 }