The 179th Vitebsk Red Banner Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.

Established at Vilnius on 17 August 1940 as part of the 29th Lithuanian Territorial Rifle Corps on the basis of the 1st Infantry Division of the Lithuanian Army: which the Soviet unit was formed Lithuanian Army's Staff Lithuanian Army's Staff, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Cavalry Regiment 1st Cavalry Regiment 3rd Cavalry Regiment With 29th Rifle Corps of 11th Army on June 22, 1941.

Fought at Kalinin, Gomel, and Vitebsk; with 4th Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.

It was reduced to the 27th Rifle Brigade in 1948 at Uralsk.

[1] In 1955, the division became the 4th Rifle Division at Buzuluk in the South Ural Military District.