Polyakov transferred to command the 96th Rifle Division in December 1933,[2] and was replaced by assistant division commander Grigory Kaptsevich (who received the rank of kombrig in 1935 when the Red Army introduced personal ranks).

[3] The division was headquartered at Cherkasy as part of the Kiev Military District.

After that, it remained at peacetime strength until January 1941 when it was re-formed as the 58th Mountain Rifle Division.

The 58th Mountain Rifle Division was surrounded and destroyed along with other parts of the 6th and 12th armies.

Its commander, Major General Nikolay Proshkin, was captured and died in January 1942 in a prisoner of war camp, Commissar M. Pozhidaev disappeared without a trace.