in late 1947 the 15th guards rifle division was relocated from the austrian city of vladimir-volyn and lyuboml. in the postwar years the unit's soldiers helped civilians rebuild postwar economy, harvest, were involved in the construction of irrigation systems in the kuban and the crimea. in september 1965, in an order of the minister of defense of the soviet union commemorating the 51st guards rifle division, which staunchly took the first blows of the german-soviet war, the 15th guards rifle division was given the number "51" and the honorary title of "perekopskaya", becoming the 51st guards motor rifle division (second formation). it remained as part of the 13th army (soviet union) in the carpathian military district since the late 1940s (when it was reassigned from the disbanding 5th guards army) until the fall of the soviet union.