In late May 1945, the division with the 8th Guards Army became part of the newly created
Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (renamed the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG) in 1954). In late 1945, the 47th Guards Rifle Division was converted into the 19th Guards Mechanized Division. The latter included three mechanized regiments and two tank regiments: the 62nd, 63rd, and 64th Guards Mechanized Regiments, formed from the 137th, 140th, and 142nd Guards Rifle Regiments, and the 26th and 153rd Tank Regiments, the former 244th Separate Tank Regiment and 153rd Tank Brigade, respectively. It was subsequently transferred to the
3rd Shock Army (the 3rd Army from 1954) in 1947, joining the
79th Rifle Corps. The corps was renumbered as the 23rd in 1955 and disbanded a year later, leaving the division directly subordinated to the army headquarters. On 17 May 1957, the division was converted into the 26th Guards Tank Division. The 63rd and 64th Guards Mechanized Regiments were accordingly disbanded, while the 62nd Guards became the 245th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment. To replace the disbanded units, the 49th Guards Tank Regiment was transferred to the 26th Guards from the
12th Guards Tank Division. The division was renumbered as the 47th Guards to restore its World War II designation on 11 January 1965. The 49th Guards was subsequently renumbered as the 197th Guards in addition. As the
Cold War ended, the GSFG was reduced in size and renamed the Western Group of Forces. Following the
Dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the division became part of the
Russian Ground Forces. In April 1993, the division began its withdrawal to
Mulino,
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, in the
Moscow Military District. In 1995 in the village of
Shatoy during the
First Chechen War, a checkpoint of the division's was captured by Chechen fighters. Aleksey Pulikovsky, an officer of the Ground Forces, and the eldest son of
General-Lieutenant Konstantin Pulikovsky, died while
unblocking the checkpoint on 14 December 1995. The division was disbanded by merging it with the
31st Tank Division of the Moscow Military District into the
3rd Motor Rifle Division at
Nizhny Novgorod in 1997. == Composition in 1988 ==