It began Operation Barbarossa as the 208th Mechanized Division under Colonel V.I.
[1] The Division was part of the 13th Mechanized Corps, 10th Army, Soviet Western Front.
[2] Unusually, Colonel Nichiporovich managed to keep a large group of men together after the destruction of his division during the border battles, and kept on the fight as 'Detachment No.208,' one of the first units of the Soviet partisans in Belarus.
[3] In 1942 the Division, under Col. K. M. Vysokoboinikov, was part of the 64th Army which fought in the Battle of Stalingrad.
The division was disbanded in the Kiev Military District along with the 124th Rifle Corps in late December 1945.