 Rakatanga kuumbwa muna Mbudzi 1920 kubva ku1st Siberian Rifle Division, uye rakarwa muRussia Civil War muSiberia. Yakaendeswa kuBelarus muna 1923 uye yakava chikamu chenyika munguva yepakati pehondo. Muna 1939 akarwa muSoviet invasion yePoland uye akachinjwa kuva motokari divi muna July 1940. Sechikamu che6th Mechanized Corps, boka racho rakaparadzwa muOperation Barbarossa, kupindirwa kweGermany kweSoviet Union, mukupera kwaJune 1941. 29th yakavandudzwa kubva ku7th Moscow Peoples Militia Division muna Chikunguru, asi yakaparadzwa muHondo yeVyazma muna Gumiguru. Yechitatu 29th yakaumbwa muKazakhstan muna Zvita uye yakashandurwa kuita 72nd Guards Rifle Division nekuda kwezviito zvayo muhondo yeStalingradmuchirimo cha 1943. 