The division briefly moved from 27th to 38th Army, then served from February until July 26 in 1st Guards Army. General Dryomin was reassigned to the 316th Rifle Division on April 7, and was eventually succeeded by Col. Mikhail Vasilevich Evstigneev. In July the 309th was reassigned to the 47th Rifle Corps in 13th Army, remaining there until December 20, and on September 9 its final commanding officer, Col. Boris Davidovich Lev, was assigned. Its final Army reassignment was a return to 6th Army, first in 74th Rifle Corps, then in 22nd Rifle Corps, and finally back in the 74th. The men and women of the division ended the war besieging Breslau, and on 4 June the division received its final award of the war, the Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class, for its role in the siege. Its final official title was the 309th Rifle, Piryatin, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Kutuzov Division. (Russian: 309-я стрелковая Пирятинская Краснознамённая ордена Кутузова дивизия.)