For their actions, the 601st Rifle and 82nd Artillery Regiments of the division were awarded the Order of the Red Banner on 17 November.

In March 1941, the 82nd was converted into the 82nd Motorized Division, joining the 29th Mechanized Corps.

However, this assignment proved to be brief, as the corps disbanded in May and the division became a separate unit of the 17th Army.

As a result of German advances following the beginning of their invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, on 22 June, the 82nd was sent to the Western Front in October.

It was reinforced with the 27th Separate Tank Battalion, and fought in the Battle of Moscow as part of the 5th Army.

[1] It took part in the summer battles of 1942 with the Western Front and the failed Operation Mars in November/December 1942.

John Erickson writes that '..at 1100 on 26 July, two of Badanov's corps (11th Tank and 6th Guards Mechanised) put in a ragged attack towards Bolkhov.

For the next few hours, under the very gaze of Bagramyan [commander of 11th Guards Army, whose sector 4th Tank was attacking through] and Badanov, both corps were heavily battered by the concealed German tanks and assault guns.

It took part in the winter battles in Ukraine in 1944 (Proskurov-Chernovitsy), then the Lvov-Sandomierz Operation in the summer.

[3] In August 1992, the division moved to Chernorechye (now Roshchinsky) in Samara Oblast, becoming part of the Volga Military District, declining to a very low strength.

Between 14 December 1994 and 9 April 1995 the 81st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment fought in the First Chechen War.

In December 1997 (or on September 1, 1997), the division became the 5968th Guards Weapons and Equipment Storage Base (Tank Troops) (5968-ю гв.

A Russian media report on 14 July 2001 said the 5968th Base was to be broken up to reinforce the 27th Motor Rifle Division and other units.