<prompt> Qedela umusho olandelayo: I-40th Rifle Division yasungulwa ngo-16 Ephreli 1930 njengesigaba sendawo esivela ku-7th Krasnoyarsk Territorial Rifle Regiment eKrasnoyarsk, Achinsk naseKansk. NgoJanuwari 1932, yadluliselwa ebuthweni elisebenzayo futhi ngo-Okthoba yathuthelwa eRazdolny, esifundeni saseNadezhdinsky, ePrimorsky Krai. NgoFebhuwari 1934, yayihlala ePosyet, eSlavyanka, Novokievka naseBarabash esifundeni saseKhasan ePrimorsky Krai. Lesi sigaba saba yingxenye ye-39th Rifle Corps ngoMeyi 1936. Wanikezwa isihloko esihloniphekile esithi ngegama likaSergo Ordzhonikidze ngo-14 Ephreli 1937. Ehlobo lika-1938, lo mnyango walwa eMpini yaseLake Khasan ngaphansi komyalo kaColonel V.K. Bazarov. Ngenxa yezenzo zayo empini, yanikezwa i-Order of Lenin. Phakathi no-August 1945, yalwa eMpini Yase-  <response>: Ukuhlasela kweSoviet iManchuria njengengxenye ye-25th Rifle Corps. I- 3rd Rifle Regiment yayo, eyayiholwa uLieutenant Colonel Mikhail Abarmov, yawela umngcele esifundeni saseGrodekovo sasePrimorsky Krai futhi yanqamula ujantshi wesitimela ngemuva kweJapane. Lalwa empini yaseLaoling pass. Ngesikhathi seHarbinKirin Operation, i-division yayiphule izivikelo zamaJapane ngo-Agasti 10 futhi yathuthuka ngo-20 km. Ngo-Agasti 11, lo mkhakha wasiza ekubambeni iLaoheyshan neHunchun. Ngokuhambisana nokuhlaselwa kwama-amphibians ngo-Agasti 12 ngamabutho ePacific Fleet, lesi sigaba sathatha i-Unga neNajin ogwini olusempumalanga yeKorea. Ngo-Agasti 15, bathatha iWangqing, iChongjin ngo-Agasti 16, iRana neYanji ngo-Agasti 17 ngemuva kokuzinikela kwamaJapane. Ngo-Okthoba, lesi sigaba sathunyelwa eHoyren eNyakatho Korea, lapho sahlala khona kwaze kwaba ngoFebhuwari 1946. Ngenxa yezenzo zayo phakathi nomkhankaso, le division yanikezwa i-Order of Suvorov yesigaba sesibili. 