The 34th Tank Division was a formation of the Red Army and Soviet Ground Forces that was formed twice.
The formation began to be formed on June 4, 1940; it was under the command of General Lieutenant Dmitry Ryabyshev.
On 25 June 1941, 12th and 34th Tank Divisions were clearing the hills south of Brody before the whole corps opened its attack later that day.
Thus much of the unengaged remnants of 34th Tank Division were formed into an about 9,000-strong strike group led by Brigade Commissar Popel of corps headquarters, whose attack saw some initial success.
On 5 February 1945 the brigade was bodily transferred from the Red Army to the Polish Armed Forces in the East (16 Dnowsko-Łużycka Brygada Pancerna).
On February 26, as the 2nd Army redeployed, the brigade was ordered to move to the Kryza area in Western Pomerania.
Staff officers made a reconnaissance of the brigade's approach routes and probable future enemy counterattack directions in the Rothenburg area.
After breaking through the Neisse, on the morning on April 17 the brigade reached the eastern shore of the river Weisser Schöps (Bely Šepc) and then it forced the region Uhsmannsdorf Spreehammer Nieder.
On April 19 Klitten and Nieder Prauske fell in succession and the brigade reached the river Spree in the evening.
May 1 concentrated in the region of thick Ostfeld (Mortka), and the next day in Friedersdorf, where it regrouped from 1 to 4 May, rebuilding combat capability.
[8] It appears to have become the 34th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base, part of the North Western Operational Command.