By an order of the Supreme Commander on 21 September the division was thanked and awarded the honorific "Chernigov".

On 26 July, troops advancing from the north and south linked up 20 to 25 kilometers west of Brest.

On 25 January 1945, the division, as part of the 2nd Belorussian Front, blocked the route out of Toruń, surrounding German forces.

The division was moved from Danzig to Germany and on 24 April was concentrated near Kortenhaten, 20 kilometers south of Stettin.

In 1991, the 104th and 234th Guards Airborne Regiments were awarded the Ministry of Defense Pennant "For Courage and Valor".

For their actions, ten officers of the division received the title Hero of the Russian Federation, two of them posthumously.

[20] From 18 August 1999 elements of the division fought in the capture of Karamakhi, Gudermes, Argun, and the blocking of the Vedeno gorge.

The 6th Company of the 104th Guards Airborne Regiment blocked the Argun Gorge in March 2000.

[21] After an experimental period, the 104th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 76th Airborne Division in 2002 became the first Russian ground forces regiment that was fully composed of professional soldiers (and not of "srochniki" – the conscripted soldiers aged eighteen).

[24] In 2014 division units spearheaded the 2014 Russian military invasion of Ukraine, and were used in the annexation of Crimea.

[25][26] On 18 August, the division was awarded the Order of Suvorov by Vladimir Putin for the "successful completion of military missions" and "courage and heroism".

[27][28] On 20 August 2014, two BMD-2s of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division were captured by Ukrainian forces near Lutuhino in the Luhansk region.

[29] Ukrainian government officials presented Russian soldiers' IDs and other military documents from the vehicles.

[34][35] Several members of the division, among whom was the platoon commander Anton Korolenko, died on 19–20 August, under circumstances their families would not reveal.

[36] A Pskov newspaper reported that nearly an entire company of paratroopers from the 76th Guards Air Assault Division allegedly was lost during combat as part of the war in Donbas, having 80 dead, though without any conclusive proof.

[37][38][27] In January 2022, elements of the division's 234th Air Assault Regiment and the 124th Tank Battalion were reportedly deployed to Belarus in the context of the Ukraine crisis.

[41] They were responsible of running the cleansing operations during the Bucha massacre arresting, torturing and murdering Ukrainian civilians.

[9] In September 2022 reports emerged from Ukrainian sources claiming the 237th Guards Air Assault Regiment "no longer exists due to either death or injury of all soldiers.