sentences:  It also took part in the Kiev defensive operation, and as part of the 21st Rifle Corps and 13th Army, was involved in heavy defensive fighting in Belarus.Reportedly because the division's banner divisional colours were lost in the Minsk area it was disbanded on December 27, 1941.As was found out later, that the instructor of the political department of the division, senior Commissar A. V. Barbashev had the Banner while the division was trying to break out of the German encirclement.