Polish-Soviet WarWorld War II Named for the Italian Proletariat (1st formation) The 27th Rifle Division (Russian: 27-я стрелковая дивизия) was a tactical unit in the Red Army of Soviet Russia and then the Soviet Union, active between 1918 and 1945.

By June 24 the division lost 40% of its soldiers and the following day unsuccessfully tried to defend the Swisłocz river line.

Only small groups of soldiers from the division reached Soviet lines in July and early August.

[4] The division was subordinated to the 26th Army of the Karelian Front in May 1942, and was deployed in the far north of Russia until the end of 1944.

Postwar, the division was stationed in Poland near Gdynia with the Northern Group of Forces and disbanded in the summer of 1945.