It broke through the Finnish positions at Salmenkayta due to its artillery support, which damaged the morale of the defenders.

According to the Western Front order of 24 June, the 21st Rifle Corps, including the division, became part of the 13th Army.

However, divisional intelligence discovered that German armored and motorized forces were present in the town.

[7] The 50th Rifle Division then retreated along the northern flank towards the Berezina River north of Barysaw.

[9] On 23 July, remnants of the division were withdrawn from the fighting with the intention of reinforcing positions 12 kilometers east of Vyazma.

The division advanced 17 kilometers from Yartsevo and then held defensive positions on the line of Ryadnyi, Osipova and Chistaya.

The division was still holding the positions on 3 October, southeast of Dukhovshchina, but on 4 October, it withdrew to the line of the Vop River and defend the east bank at Kurganova, Podylische and Ozerische, repulsing German attempts at crossing the river.

On 5 October, army commander Ivan Konev ordered the division to move to Vyazma.

Due to various motor transport delays, the division didn't arrive at Vyazma until 7 October.

[9] On 19 October, the division fought in the battle for Vereya but was immediately removed and transferred to the area of Dorokhovo and Shchalikovo, covering the Mozhaysk approaches.

Having made a night march, the division arrived at the Shchalikovo area by the morning of 20 October and fought in combat with advancing German troops.

On 25 October, more than 800 personnel of the 230th Reserve Training Rifle Regiment, attached to the division, were killed in the village of Gorbovo [ru].

The division continued to advance and by 20 December had captured Krasotinom, Kozhin and the village of Kagonovich on the south bank of the Moskva.

On 21 December, German troops launched a heavy counterattack and the division was forced to withdraw across the river.

Continuing to pursue the German troops from Dorokhovo, the division by 16 January was at the line of Kostino, Krasny Stan, Alexandrovo, Mikhailovsky, and Bugaylovo.

On 19 January, the division, in conjunction with the 20th Tank Brigade, bunkered down in the area of Makarovo and Teterino.

From then until April, it was fighting west of Gzhatsk, where the division met resistance from German troops and fought there until the beginning of 1943.

At the beginning of 1943, the division was transferred to the line of the Siversky Donets, where the Voroshilovgrad Offensive had recently failed.

The division took up positions at the bend of the Siversky Donets but upon arrival attacked and captured a bridgehead across the river at the village of Tatyanovka.

[9] On 17 July, the division crossed the Donets during the Izyum-Barvenkovo Offensive and was able to capture a small bridgehead.

On 19 August, the division began to advance[12] and led fighting 13 kilometers north of Iași ("Jassy").