Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I whakatūria i te mutunga o te tau 1918 i te wā o te Pakanga ā-Iwi o Rūhia hei 5th Ural Infantry Division, i whawhai te wehenga ki te Rāwhiti. I te marama o Hepetema 1919 i wehewehea, e rua o ona pereti me tona tari matua i nekehia ki te hauauru. I whakakotahihia te wehenga ki te Raki ki te Tonga i te marama o Hanuere, e whawhai ana i nga waahanga whakamutunga o te pakanga i reira. I te marama o Mei i whakawhitihia ki te whawhai i te Pakanga Polish-Soviet, a koinei tetahi o nga wehenga i whawhai i te Pakanga o Radzymin i te Pakanga nui o Warsaw. Whai muri i te hinganga o te ope Whero na te whakaekenga a Polani, ka hoki te wehenga ki Belarus. I nekehia atu ano ki te rawhiti ki te whakakore i te tutu a te kaiahuwhenua i Siberia ki te Hauauru, ka noho ki reira tae noa ki te 1929, i te wa i nekehia atu ai ki te Rawhiti o te Rawhiti ki te whawhai i te pakanga Sino-Soviet
o taua tau. Whai muri i te tiimata o te Operation Barbarossa i te Pipiri 22, 1941, i tukuna te wehenga ki te hauauru i te marama o Hepetema ka whawhai ki te Pakanga Whakauru ki a Finland i Karelia. Mai i te puna o te tau 1944 i whawhai ia i te rohe Arctic, i te tuatahi i te rohe o Alakurtti. Whai muri i te wehenga atu o Finland mai i te pakanga, i tukuna te wehenga ki Hungary i te Hanuere 1945. I whawhai ia i te mutunga o te Budapest Offensive, Operation Spring Awakening, me te Vienna Offensive i te mutunga o te pakanga. I muri i te pakanga, i tangohia te 21 ki Romania ka hurihia ki te 20th Mechanized Division, i whakakorehia i te 1947.