Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - Ko te 4th Rifle Division he wehenga hōia o te Red Army o te Soviet Union, e toru nga wa i hangaia. I hangaia tuatahihia i te tau 1919 mai i nga toenga o te Lithuanian Rifle Division ka whawhai ki te Parenga o Petrograd i te Pakanga a Ruhia. I whawhai te wehenga i te Pakanga Polish-Soviet. I te tau 1939, i whawhai te wehenga ki te whakaekenga a te Soviet o Poland. I whawhai ia i te Pakanga o te Hotoke mai i te Tihema 1939 a he nui te mate i te Pakanga o Kelja. Whai muri i te Operation Barbarossa, i whawhai te wehenga ki te Barvinkove-Losowaja Operation me te Pakanga o Voronezh i te tau 1942.
He nui te mate i a Voronezh, a, i whakakorehia i te marama o Noema 1942. I whakahoutia te wehenga i te tau 1943 ka whawhai ki te Bryansk Offensive, Gomel-Rechitsa Offensive, Lublin<unk>Brest Offensive, Warsaw-Poznan Offensive me te Berlin Offensive. I whakakorehia i te raumati o te tau 1945. I whakahoutia te wehenga mo te wa tuatoru mai i te 160th Rifle Division me te whakawhiwhi i nga honore me nga tohu o taua wehenga. I noho ko ia te 4th Motor Rifle Division i te 1957 a i whakakorehia i te 1959.