It was disbanded in 2002 and its lineage inherited by a base for storage and transshipment which was tasked with dismantling the division's missile facilities.

[2] It was formed from personnel of the Sevastopol Anti-Aircraft Artillery School and VNOS (Air Warning, Observation, and Communications) troops, and was commanded by Colonel Nikolay Sitnikov.

[4] Two days later the 23rd joined the Northwestern Front, and was transported by rail to Kresttsy station, arriving there on 26 February.

[5] German aviation became more active from 1 March, and He 111 and Ju 88 bombers, as well as Bf 109 and Fw 190 fighters overflew locations defended by the 23rd multiple times a day at an altitude of five to six kilometers.

The newly formed units of the division, which had previously conducted training, began combat operations.

Grayvoron was captured on 7 August; during the battles in the area the 23rd claimed twelve enemy aircraft and 60 of its men were decorated.

[6] On 18 January 1944, Sitnikov was killed in fighting near Polonne;[7] he was replaced by Colonel Yakov Lyubimov, who would command the division for the rest of the war.

[8] In early 1944, the division fought in heavy fighting for Shepetovka, claiming seven enemy aircraft before the town was captured on 11 February.

[1] By 1 March the 1064th Regiment was detached from the main body of the division and directly subordinated to 1st Ukrainian Front command.

[9] During the Proskurov–Chernovitsy Offensive, the division helped capture Ternopol on 19 April, and was awarded the name of the city as an honorific for its actions.

[11] The division was split again by 1 July when the 1342nd and 1348th Regiments were directly subordinated to the front headquarters,[12] though it was reunited by 1 August.

It claimed eighteen enemy aircraft downed and 4,745 German soldiers captured during the offensive, and for "exemplary fulfillment of command tasks" its 1064th Regiment was awarded the honorific Lvov.

[1] In early January 1945, the division advanced out of the Sandomierz bridgehead, where it had ended the summer fighting, in the Sandomierz–Silesian Offensive.

Between 21 February and 14 March it helped defend the Dabrowskie Coal Basin region from German counterattack.

For participating in the capture of the coal basin and of southern Upper Silesia, the 23rd was awarded the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd class.

In the subsequent attack on Ratibor, the division provided air defense for the crossing of the Oder by Soviet troops.

For "exemplary performance of command tasks" in the attack on Ratibor the 23rd Division was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

The soldiers of the division also fought in urban warfare in the streets of Berlin, participating in the capture of eight city blocks.

In May 1955, the Soviet troops were ordered to withdraw from Austria, and in September the 23rd was relocated to Shepetovka in the Carpathian Military District.

Around this time the construction of the division's combat launch positions and other facilities began, delayed by wooded and swampy terrain until a concrete-surfaced road was completed.

Around the same time, the division began receiving updated UR-100 missiles, and on 24 November 1966 the first UR-100-armed regiment went on alert duty.

"[20] On 1 December, the division's honors were transferred to the 1328th Base for Storage and Transshipment of BZhRK Components, under the command of Sinenko, who led it for the duration of its existence.