The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive or Karelian offensive was a strategic operation by the Soviet Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian...
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after the Red Army's Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, timed to coincide with the Battle of Normandy. By the time of the Soviet offensive, the town had a population...
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transferred to the Karelian Isthmus to defend against the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive. Following the Moscow Armistice in 1944, the division was moved...
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retrograde began almost immediately. During the first three days of the offensive toward Vyborg the 21st and 23rd Armies advanced to the second line on a 60km-wide...
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had begun its offensive against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus on June 10 and 7th Army was set to begin its own Svir–Petrozavodsk offensive on June 20 on...
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breached at Kuuterselkä by the Soviet 21st Army as part of the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. VKT-line Karelian Fortified Region Salpa Line Moisala, Pirkko...
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Leningrad–Novgorod offensive, which broke the siege of Leningrad. During the summer of 1944, the army fought in the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive, helping to...
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Finland. The areas would be retaken by the Soviets during the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive which took place in 1944. The recapture of the city would mean...
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at Buguruslan. It first saw action in January 1942, taking part in the offensive northwest of Moscow which carved out the salient around Toropets deep...
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Murmansk or to cut the Kirov (Murmansk) Railway. The Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive in June and August 1944 drove the Finns from most of the territories...
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the abandoned city of Vyborg while 6th and 98th Rifle Corps pursued Finnish forces northwestward. A new phase of the offensive began on June 22. 6th Corps...
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the Karelian Isthmus following the start of the 1944 Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive. Following the Moscow armistice, the division also took part...
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progress was too slow, and orders emanated from Moscow exhorting them on to Vyborg. To this end, the rested 97th Corps was again subordinated to 21st Army...
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Finnish invasion of the Karelian Isthmus (redirect from Vyborg-Keksholm Defensive)
Soviet Union reconquered the southern part of the isthmus in the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish forces facing the Karelian Isthmus consisted of...
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Stalin's ten blows (redirect from Year of yen linked strategic offensives)
in his speech. It was conducted by the 4th Ukrainian Front. Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive (9 June – 9 August 1944). Directed against Finnish forces north...
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at the start of the war and defended against the 1944 Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive on the Karelian Isthmus where it suffered heavy casualties....
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Isthmus as part of the upcoming Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, which aimed to force Finland out of the war. During the offensive, the 109th played a crucial...
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64th Guards Rifle Division (section Karelian Offensive)
of that division's distinguished combat record in the Second Siniavino Offensive and Operation Iskra. It was one of a relatively small number of formations...
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however the region was retaken by the Soviet Red Army during the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive. Olonets, town in which the region is named after. Olonetsky...
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the Karelian Isthmus just prior to the launch of the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive. Following the Moscow Armistice, III Corps took overall command...
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the corps fought in the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, then in September joined the 2nd Shock Army for the Tallinn Offensive. In October Simoniak was...
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Union reconquered the eastern part of Ladoga Karelia in the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. At the start of the Continuation War the Finnish army was deployed...
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siege of Leningrad. She bombarded Finnish positions during the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive in mid-1944, but played no further part in the war. Kirov was...
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1944 the army took part in the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive. Advancing on the main attack axis of the front along the Vyborg highway, the army broke through...
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trench warfare period ended on 9 June 1944 with the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, which soon broke the Finnish lines. On the morning of 14 June...
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1944, the corps was the target of the spearhead of the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive. Elements of the corps fought in the decisive Battle of Tali-Ihantala...
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1944. In June and July of that year, it participated in the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive against Finland, then was relocated to the Baltic states, where...
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Leonid Govorov (section Soviet Counter Offensive)
to the north. In June 1944, during the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, which led to Soviet recapture of Vyborg, Govorov was promoted to the rank of marshal...
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during World War II. The division fought in the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive and the Vienna Offensive. Postwar, it was designated as an airborne division...
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Rifle Division, and the 372nd Rifle Division of 97th Rifle Corps, occupied Vyborg, which the Finns had evacuated. The 314th saw some limited additional fighting...
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