 On 20 October, Colonel Matvey Gushin took command of the division, part of the 7th Guards Army.In the Budapest Offensive, the 5th covered the troops of the army in the breakthrough of Axis defenses at Abony, the advance northeast of Budapest, the crossing of the Danube, and the encirclement of Axis troops in Budapest.The division then fought in the Siege of Budapest until February 1945.