[2] The 257th Rifle Division was assigned to the front's 56th Army on 8 July, taking up defenses in the region of the stanitsa of Krymskaya.

[1][4] The division was relocated to the region of the stanitsas of Dolzhansakya and Semeykino between 24 and 29 August and shifted to the 51st Army.

In late March 1944 Maykov, now a colonel, took command of the division, which he led for the rest of the war.

For distinguishing itself in the fighting to break through the German fortified defenses on the Perekop Isthmus and in the lake defile on the southern bank of the Sivash the division received the Sivash honorific on 24 April, and for its performance in the liberation of Sevastopol was awarded the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class on 24 May.

[3] After the end of the fighting in Crimea, the division and its parent 51st Army were withdrawn to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command and shifted to the 1st Baltic Front.