Reformed in the summer of 1942, the division's second formation fought in the Third Battle of Kharkov, the Crimean offensive, and in the Baltic states.

The division began forming from reservists on 10 July 1941 at Stary Oskol, part of the Orel Military District.

The division's positions were located in impassable swampy forests, and as a result it held a front of 34 kilometers in October 1941.

At the end of 1942 the division moved south with the 6th Army to the Southwestern Front, and fought in the Soviet offensive in early 1943 towards Kharkov and the northern Donbas.

In February 1945, the army transferred to the 2nd Baltic Front, and it spent the last weeks of the war blockading German troops trapped in the Courland Pocket.