The division arrived in Perkjärvi around the end of January or the start of February and moved to lake Mikkilänjärvi.

Returned to the Kiev Special Military District in April 1940, it participated in the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in June–July 1940.

Fighting as part of the 8th Mechanized Corps, 26th Army, Southwestern Front,[1] from June 1941, the division was decimated in attempting to halt the German advance.

On 1 December 1942 it was part of the 8th Rifle Corps, subordinated directly to the Kalinin Front alongside other Estonian formations.

[5] The 7th Estonian Rifle Division was with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) in May 1945.