The division became part of the 37th Guards Rifle Corps and in February were embarked on trains and moved to positions south of Budapest.

Between 16 March and 1 April, the division advanced along Lake Balaton after participating in the repulse of Operation Spring Awakening.

In 1962, the division participated in the Exercise "Vltava" with other Warsaw Pact troops and received thanks from the Czechoslovak Defence Minister.

From 21 August to 20 October 1968, the division participated in Operation Danube, the crushing of the Prague Spring.

In 1975, it became the first Guards Division of the Airborne Troops of the USSR to make a parachute jump out of AN-22 and IL-76 aircraft.

The 103rd Guards Airborne Division participated in the combined arms exercise "Berezin" in Belarus in February 1978.

The actions of the division's personnel on maneuvers were very highly rated by Soviet military commanders.

[3] It lost most of its support units, including the artillery regiment, but apparently the 20th Separate Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion was retained.

It then became the 103rd Separate Guards Mobile Brigade (Russian: 103-я отдельная гвардейская мобильная бригада).

[7] In 2014, the brigade participated in the Collective Security Treaty Organization exercise "Indestructible Brotherhood 2014" in Kyrgyzstan.

[9] On 14 January 2020, the Minister of Defense Andrei Ravkov granted the brigade the Vitebsk honorific after its base; it thus became the 103rd Vitebsk Separate Guards Airborne Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Kutuzov 2nd degree, Brigade named after the 60th anniversary of the USSR.

[10] In March 2020, personnel of the 42 Commando of the British Royal Marines worked with the Peacekeeping Company of the brigade at the Losvido Training Areas during the two-week Exercise Winter Partisan.

[11] In response to the 2022 Kazakh unrest, Belarus was the first of the Collective Security Treaty Organization states to support Russia in its intervention in Kazakhstan, the suppression by force of anti-government protestors.