It became the 99th Guards Airborne Division in August but was converted into infantry again in December 1944 and January 1945.

The division fought in the Budapest Offensive and in the defense against Operation Spring Awakening.

[1] Prior to June 1944, it was stationed in the Moscow Military District, but was transferred to the line of the Svir to fight in the Svir-Petrozavodsk Operation.

On 21 June 1944, the division crossed the Svir and breaking through the Finnish defences, seized its objectives.

The division advanced to the north to Svirstroy and prevented the Finnish from blowing up a dam.

After the Finnish troops were partially routed, 460 soldiers from the division were surrounded after advancing too far and killed or captured.

In early April, in conjunction with the 6th Guards Tank Army, it advanced to the Danube, cutting of German escape routes to the west.