In August, the 251st was transferred to 43rd Army of 1st Baltic Front, where it served until the end of the year, during the offensive into Lithuania. It then went back to 3rd Belorussian Front, now as part of 2nd Guards Army, where it remained for the duration. In the spring of 1945 it took part in the fighting around Königsberg, ending the war facing the German Samland Group on the Baltic coast of East Prussia. The division ended the war as the "251st Rifle Vitebsk, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division" (Russian: 251-я стрелковая Витебская Краснознамённая ордена Суворова дивизия).