It earned a battle honor in the campaign to liberate the Oryol salient before advancing west toward the Dniepr, winning a second Order of the Red Banner in the process.

It continued to see service through the northwest of Ukraine into the autumn of 1944 as it and its regiments received further battle honors and decorations, particularly as a result of the liberation of Lvov.

In November it was reassigned with its Army to the 4th Ukrainian Front and spent the rest of the war battling through the Carpathian mountains, eventually participating in the advance on Prague in May, 1945.

In the reallocation of the Soviet forces around Stalingrad the division was soon moved to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command for rebuilding.

Meanwhile, the commander of 13th Army, Lt. Gen. N. I. Pukhov had allocated substantial reinforcements to 17th Guards Corps, including the 1st Guards Artillery Division, the 378th Antitank Artillery Regiment and the 237th Tank Regiment; this substantial firepower ensured Bondarev would be able to hold the line even without mobile tank support.

[22] On August 30 the division, backed by the 23rd and 95th Tank Brigades and the 1454th Self-propelled Artillery Regiment,[23] was credited with the liberation of the Ukrainian town of Glukhov and got the town's name as an honorific:GLUKHOV... 70th Guards Rifle Division (Colonel Gusev, Ivan Andreevich)...

The troops who participated in the battles near Sevsk, Glukhov and Rylsk, by the order of the Supreme High Command of 31 August 1943, and a commendation in Moscow, are given a salute of 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.

[25] Later that month the it was transferred with the rest of 17th Guards Corps back to 13th Army as it advanced through western Ukraine toward the Dniepr River.

[26] General Gusev directed the division in crossings of the Seym, Desna and Dniepr rivers, taking and holding bridgeheads in the area of the villages of Teremtsy and Domantovo in the Chernobyl district north of Kiev.

The 17th and 18th Guards Corps did not have any success but Vatutin insisted that the assault be renewed at noon on October 14 with the intention of linking the bridgeheads held by the two armies to prepare for an advance on Kiev.

[29] During October 18–23 the 60th Army was engaged in intensive fighting as German forces repeatedly counterattacked along the south bank of the Teteriv.

Fending off these attacks expended a great deal of ammunition which forced a postponement of a new Soviet offensive until after October 23.

In the plan for this offensive the 60th Army would attack toward Rovy with nine rifle divisions, including the 70th Guards, before driving south along the left bank of the Irpin River in the direction of Kiev.

Despite heavy German fire and counterattacks a breakthrough was made by the shock groups and both armies advanced 5–12 km during the day.

[31] Vatutin ordered the offensive to continue into western Ukraine with 60th Army directed to take bridgeheads over the Teteriv in the area of Radomyshl by the end of November 9.

On November 11 the Army cleared the Teteriv along its entire front, advanced from 10 to 25 km and captured 200 prisoners and large amounts of equipment.

In heavy fighting throughout the day against 38th Army the German forces managed to capture Solovyovka and drive the 17th Guards Corps to the north.

Despite heavy resistance on November 17 the panzers were able to reach the paved road from Kiev to Zhytomyr, threatening to envelop the Soviet forces there.

[33] During November 19 the momentum of 4th Panzer Army began to decline, although 17th Guards Corps was forced to abandon Morozovka.

After directing the division's fighting along the Dniestr River during the spring Colonel Andrienko handed his command back to General Gusev on July 4.

In the planning for the Lvov-Sandomierz operation in July the 38th Army was to penetrate the German defense in the Bzovitsa and Bogdanovka sector on a width of 6 km.

It would then develop the offensive with seven divisions in the direction of Peremyshliany with the objective of encircling the German Lvov grouping in cooperation with the 4th Tank and 60th Armies.

The troops who participated in the liberation of Lvov, by the order of the Supreme High Command of 27 July 1944, and a commendation in Moscow, are given a salute of 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

[42]On August 10 the 205th and 207th Guards Rifle Regiments would also be rewarded for their roles in the Lvov battles with the Order of the Red Banner.

The troops who participated in the capture of Jasło and Gorlice, by the order of the Supreme High Command of 19 January 1945, and a commendation in Moscow, are given a salute of 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

[47] Due to being wounded for the fourth time General Gusev was forced to hand his command to Maj. Gen. Dmitrii Yakovlevich Grigorev on February 25 but this staff officer was in turn replaced on March 10 by Col. Leonid Ivanovich Gredinarenko, who would remain in this post for the duration.

The Moravia–Ostrava Offensive began the same day and during the course of the operation the 70th Guards was rewarded for its part in the capture of Bielsko with the Order of Suvorov, 2nd Degree, on April 5.