The Zemland Group of Forces was a front-sized operational group of the Red Army during the Second World War which saw service for two months in the Sambia...

command from February 22, redesignating it as the Zemland Army Group (or Samland Front). Bagramyan's forces initially laid siege to Königsberg; the city was...

armed forces surrendered to the Allies unconditionally and the war in Europe was over. Following the war, the Front headquarters formed the Group of Soviet...

attached to the Zemland Group of Forces of the Red Army were sent to Königsberg and other places of East Prussia. On 22 March, a company of 58 men led by...

Headquarters of the Northern Group of Forces (NGF), the Soviet occupation force in Poland, effective June 10, 1945. Most of the NGF's forces were drawn from the...

task of containing the German drive towards Leningrad and defending the city from the approaching Army Group North. By September 1941, German forces to...

Moscow Reserve Front Mozhaysk Line of Defense North Caucasus Front – redesignated TC Front's Black Sea Group of Forces, 1 September 1942 Northern Front...

фронт) was a Front of the Red Army during the Second World War. The 3rd Belorussian Front was created on 24 April 1944 from forces previously assigned...

forces to escape from the Białystok region towards Minsk, but this brought only temporary relief. With both the German Second and Third Panzer Groups...

forces — seemingly the Soviet 32nd Rifle Division of 39th Rifle Corps — engaged Japanese Manchukuo forces at the Battle of Lake Khasan. On the eve of...

The Primorsky Group of Forces was a front of the Red Army during World War II in the Far East. It was split off from the Far Eastern Front in March 1945...

Trotsky to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian Civil War, especially the various groups collectively known as the...

final battle of World War II in Europe, therefore ending the war. Following the war, the Front headquarters formed the Central Group of Forces of the Red Army...

size of an army group of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. The Southern Front directed military operations during the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia...

the Steppe Front on July 9, 1943. It incorporated forces from the Soviet rear areas to the West of Kursk salient along the line Tula-Yelets-Stary Oskol-Rossosh...

Vyazma. The surviving forces transferred to the Western Front on October 10, 1941 under the command of Zhukov. The second version of this Front was created...

forward forces. These forces took part in the tank battles in western Ukraine and were surrounded and destroyed at the Battle of Uman and the Battle of Kiev...

the basis of a Stavka directive on May 29, 1945, the front was disbanded, and reorganised as the Southern Group of Forces. 26th Army was grouped with 37th...

allocated three armies: 22nd, 29th Army and 30th. In May 1942, the Air Forces of the Kalinin Front were reorganised as the 3rd Air Army, comprising three...

on the city of Stalingrad on the Volga River. By order of the Stavka on July 12, 1942, Stalingrad Front was formed, under the command of Marshal S.K....

Northern Front (World War I), a unit of the Imperial Russian army during World War I Northern Front (RSFSR), a unit of the Red Army during the Russian civil...

and in August in the streets of the city, which was taken on 9 August after the retreat of 11th Army. The Soviet forces of 34th, 27th and 11th Armies led...

goal was the defense of the Kola Peninsula and the northern shores of the Gulf of Finland. On August 23, 1941, the Front's forces were divided into the...

the troops and forces of the Bryansk Front defending the Voronezh region, being designated as Voronezh Front on 7 July 1942. By the time of Operation Blau...

the Northern Group of Forces in the Transcaucasian Front (located in the eastern Caucasus), and reintegrated the Black Sea Group of Forces on February...

several Soviet fronts (army groups) of the Second World War: Belorussian Front (1939), formed during the Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) 1st Belorussian...

July 1941 it was set up to organise the defence of Moscow and on 30 July 1941 it was dissolved and its forces transferred to the Reserve Front. v t e...

advance of the Wehrmacht Army Group North in its offensive thrust towards Leningrad. Initially the front operated to the south of Leningrad, with its flank...

the STAVKA redesignated this Front as the Zemland Group of Forces, effective February 24. By the beginning of April, just prior to the final assault on...

of the STAVKA of the Supreme High Command on Sept. 28, 1942 in order to form a more cohesive command structure to the much-reinforced Soviet forces fighting...