The 232nd made an impressive advance of 80km to the west, capturing bridges over the Berezina and Ptsich Rivers; it was reported at 2000 hours on July 18 as fighting along the Borovaia, Korolev Station, and Sloboda line, 15-22km northwest of Parichi and 20-25km south of Babruysk.

[7] Western Front's situation report at 0800 hours on July 21 stated in part that the 232nd was defending against the 131st and 134th Infantry Divisions, with the 797th Rifle Regiment protecting the Chernye Brody, Protasy, and Ugly sector, from 25km west of Parichi to 15km southwest of the same place.

On August 27 the Army, which was operating along the western flank of this penetration, reported that the 232nd and 75th Divisions were jointly defending the Gornostaevka Station, Iankovka and Skitok line, 65-70km north and northwest of Chernihiv.

At this time the Corps also contained the 55th and 266th Rifle Divisions and, as it was his strongest formation, Kuznetsov decided he had to employ it to defend the vital Chernihiv region against the advancing 2nd Army.

Kuznetsov issued orders on August 29 to his Army in which he described the mission of 66th Corps:... defend the Borovichi Station, Kamka, Petrovka, Dubrovnoe, and Burovka line [north of Chernigov] and relieve the cavalry groupin the Zaimishche and Novye Milny sector...

Later that day Kuznetsov stated that the division had relieved the cavalry group and occupied Novyi Mlyny and Iaskovo while repelling an attack by two German infantry regiments.

[14] On September 6 what remained of the division was reassigned, along with the rest of its Army, to Southwestern Front, but ten days later the two panzer groups linked up, completing the encirclement.

Centered on Kastornoye and Gorshechnoye it was defended by the German 2nd and Hungarian 2nd Armies, both of which were weak in numbers and especially in armor; on the other hand its northern and eastern faces had been fortified over the previous six months.

This was to attack along the 22km-wide sector from Rudkino to Semidesyatskoye along the Nizhnyaya Veduga axis with the objective of linking up with 38th Army and encircling the forces defending the eastern part of the salient.

As the Guards' situation deteriorated the 206th Division was rushed up to reinforce it, Meanwhile, the 232nd the 253rd Brigade were pulled out of the fighting and concentrated in the Olym area; they were soon ordered to move up to the line Yastrebovka–Teplyi Kolodez by the end of February 1.

The next day the Bruchmann group (roughly 9,000 men of three German and two Hungarian divisions) managed to break out through the 25th Guards and reached as far as Shlyakhovaya and height 218 before being halted by two regiments of the 232nd near Golovishcha.

The next day the desperate Axis troops, which now included the Seibert group, drove the division out of this village while also occupying Yefrosinovka and the eastern part of Yastrebovka.

Fearing they might be encircled themselves General Ulitin ordered his men to pull back to the north in the area of Ostanino and then Repets, giving the Axis groups a clear path to reach Manturovo and then Solntsevo.

General Chibisov now ordered his forces to encircle and destroy the Axis garrison of that town in preparation for a renewed offensive on Sumy, 100 km to the southwest.

In the early days of the Kastornoye operation he had led his troops in the liberation of several villages as the pocket was being formed, including Kochetovka, where he personally directed the hand-to-hand combat that cleared it, before he was killed in action on January 28 in the fighting for Nizhneye Turovo.

Having been stripped of one rifle division and both tank brigades during this fighting it was not in a position to take part in the first stages of Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev but finally began advancing in late August.

The troops who participated in the liberation of Sumy, by the order of the Supreme High Command of 2 September 1943, and a commendation in Moscow, are given a salute of 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.

[35] 50th Corps began the attack on the Darnitsa position on September 23 but stubborn fighting continued until the 28th when the German forces completed their evacuation to the west bank.

By the end of the 26th the reconnaissance company of the 180th Rifle Division had got over while one battalion of the 167th occupied a midstream island near Vyshhorod but crossing efforts remained slow until September 29.

The 232nd was now temporarily subordinated to 3rd Guards Tank Army and was ordered to take up defensive positions east and southeast of Fastiv, but it had only 200 riflemen and sappers on hand and its artillery was trailing to the rear.

The STAVKA, alarmed by the situation, ordered Vatutin to reinforce 38th Army's left wing along the Fastiv–Trypillia line with artillery, tanks and engineers to prevent any breakthrough toward Kyiv.

Forward elements of 2nd Tank Army were dueling with a battle group of the 24th Panzer Division north of Podu Iloaiei and were unable to support the infantry advance.

During the afternoon this division's 52nd Assault Engineer Battalion launched a counterattack which managed to seize and hold a small foothold in the southern part of Târgu Frumos.

The assault struck security outposts at the village of Critești and drove them back to 8th Romanian's forward defenses at Timișești and Moțca, which in turn were attacked the next day.

[57] Following this success the Corps drove a further 5km to the south toward the villages of Boureni and Brătești where it ran into a full regiment of the Romanian 20th Mountain Infantry Division which was engaged in forming a new defensive line along a ridge between the Seret and Moldova Rivers.

The Romanian command urgently requested assistance and, in response, a battle group of the 3rd SS Panzer Division was dispatched from the town of Roman to the south.

When the new offensive began on August 20 the 51st Corps had the 38th Rifle Division in place of the 133rd,[61] and was again assigned a supporting role to attack from the area south and southwest of Pașcani in the general direction of Tupilați.

[65] During this delay General Kozyr was appointed as deputy commander of 50th Corps on November 26, and was replaced the next day by Col. Dionisii Semyonovich Tsalai, who would lead the division for the duration.

[68] The Western Carpathian Offensive began on January 12 and in the third week of the month the Slovakian towns of Rožňava and Jelšava were taken; in recognition the 794th Rifle Regiment received the Order of the Red Banner on February 19.

A memorial south of Voronezh, atop the resting place of 969 Soviet soldiers, is dedicated to the 232nd Rifle Division and 18th Tank Corps for their defense of the Shilovo bridgehead.