Voronezh Front
Late in that month it moved to the Moscow Military District and was assigned to the 2nd Reserve Army in the "STAVKA" reserves. By July the division was in 3rd Reserve Army when it was re-designated the 60th Army for front-line service. On July 19 that Army went into Voronezh Front, and on that same date, Col. Konstantin Stepanovich Fyodorovskiy was promoted from chief of staff to divisional command. Promoted to the rank of Major General on January 17, 1944, he remained in command until late December of the same year. The 303rd spent the remainder of 1942 in that Army in that Front, mounting an aggressive defense against what the "STAVKA" anticipated to be a German drive to the northeast towards Moscow. In early 1943 it was moved to 40th Army, and then for a month in Voronezh Front reserves for rebuilding.