The division spent the final months of the war blockading trapped German troops in the Courland Pocket before being disbanded in early 1946.

The division was moved north within a month and in mid-August was assigned to the new 52nd Army, forming east of Leningrad in the swampy Volkhov area.

After the end of the siege of Leningrad in January 1944, the division advanced into the Baltic states in the spring and summer.

From January 1945, the division was part of the 22nd Army's 14th Guards Rifle Corps, blockading German troops trapped in the Courland Pocket on the Baltic coast of Lithuania.

[1] The division was disbanded by February 1946 with the 14th Guards Rifle Corps in the Kiev Military District, where it had relocated in August 1945.