265th Motor Rifle Division

Postwar, it was withdrawn to the Soviet Union and downsized into a rifle brigade before being expanded into the 71st Mechanized Division in 1953.

It was one of the fifteen NKVD divisions that began forming on 26 June and was transferred to the Red Army in early July.

The 265th, whose major subunits included the 450th, 941st, and 951st Rifle Regiments, the 798th Artillery Regiment, and the 224th Anti-Tank Battalion, remained in the Moscow Military District at least until 10 July, and later that month moved to Leningrad with a 1500-man cadre of NKVD personnel.

In early August it joined the 23rd Army, fighting in the Continuation War north of Leningrad on the Karelian Isthmus.

On 26 August, its first Red Army commander, Major Ivan Prytkov, was assigned to the division.

Between June and July, it was part of the 21st Army's 110th Rifle Corps for the Svir–Petrozavodsk Offensive on the Karelian Isthmus, which eventually forced Finland out of the war.