The division was formed in 1923 as a territorial unit, assigned to the 14th Rifle Corps of the Ukrainian Military District.
The division transferred to the Zhitomir Army Group of the Kiev Special Military District on 26 July 1938 during another reorganization.
It was reorganized under peacetime tables of organization and equipment with an authorized strength of 6,000 personnel in April 1940.
When Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began on 22 June 1941, the division was assigned to the 32nd Rifle Corps of the 16th Army of the Transbaikal Military District, and still stationed in Irkutsk.
When the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany was formed in August 1945, the division was with the 109th Rifle Corps of the 2nd Shock Army.