It was under the command of General Lieutenant Ivan Russiyanov, and gained the honorifics "Vienna, Voronezh".
It was then assigned to the Southwestern Front which was under the command of General N. F. Vatutin to participate in the encirclement of German Army Group A in Operation Saturn, which was undertaken during the Battle of Stalingrad.
On 14 September 1987, the division began to be called the 171st Guards District Training Center (Military Unit Number 30105).
Remaining Russian units in Vaziani in Tbilisi gained the designation of the 137th Military Base.
With the change, the centre in Chita became the 212th Guards District Training Center "Vienna of the Orders of Lenin and Kutuzov," for junior specialists named after Lieutenant General I.N.