Later Service
After the end of the war the division became a part of the Southern Group of Forces, being reorganised as 13th Guards Mechanised Division. It was withdrawn from Vienna, Austria, in 1955 and subsequently restructured as a tank division. Thus 13th Guards Tank Division formed part of the Southern Group of Forces for many years before finally being withdrawn and disbanded at the end of the 1980s. American military sources reported its final deactivation site in 1989 as the Odessa Military District.
The division's final honorifics in 1988 included 'Poltava', Transylvama Order of Lenin, Twice Red Banner, Suvorov and Kutuzov.
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