After taking the cities of Šibenik and Split it reached Dubrovnik, where it linked up with the 131st Armored Division "Centauro", which had advanced North from Italian-occupied Albania.

[6] On 17 September it deployed to the right of the 3rd Cavalry Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" in the Dnjepropetrowsk area on the Dnieper river, where it was immediately engaged by enemy units.

Between 20 October and 2 November 1941, the division assaulted the city of Stalino (today Donetsk) in Eastern Ukraine, and occupied the neighbouring towns of Horlivka and Yenakiieve.

In November the Torino was on the Krynka river to protect the southern flank of the 3rd Cavalry Division and on 6 December it attacked Chazepetowka and reach the village after two days of struggle.

On 12 December 1941 the division's commander General Ugo de Carolis was killed and posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross by the Germans.

[9] When the division was deployed to Russia it consisted of the following units:[10] Attached from early 1941 to July 1941:[2] For their conduct during the Italian campaign in the Soviet Union the President of Italy awarded on 31 December 1947 to the three regiments of the 52nd Infantry Division "Torino" Italy's highest military honor, the Gold Medal of Military Valor.