Front on 12 October 1943, and took part in several important military operations, most notably Bagration in the summer of 1944. The 1st Baltic Front also...
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Baltic Fronts 1st Baltic Front: Formed from Kalinin Front late 1943. 2nd Baltic Front: Formed from Bryansk Front on 10 October 1943. 3rd Baltic Front...
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The Baltic offensive, also known as the Baltic strategic offensive, was the military campaign between the northern Fronts of the Red Army and the German...
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1st Front may refer to major formations of the Soviet Army during World War II: 1st Baltic Front 1st Belorussian Front 1st Far Eastern Front 1st Ukrainian...
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East Prussian offensive (category World War II aerial operations and battles of the Eastern Front)
out by the 3rd Belorussian Front under General I.D. Chernyakhovsky as part of the Memel offensive of the 1st Baltic Front. The Soviet forces took heavy...
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and late-January 1944 the Leningrad front, along with the Volkhov Front, the 1st Baltic Front and the 2nd Baltic Front, pushed back Army Group North and...
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pocket was created during the Red Army's Baltic Offensive, when forces of the 1st Baltic Front reached the Baltic Sea near Memel (Klaipėda) during its lesser...
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and North; however, Stavka made preparations for an attack by the 1st Baltic Front against the positions of the 3rd Panzer Army and thence towards Memel...
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Шяуляйская операция) was an operation of the Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front, commanded by General Hovhannes Bagramyan, conducted from 5 July to...
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The 2nd Baltic Front (Russian: 2-й Прибалтийский фронт) was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War. The 2nd Baltic Front was formed...
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Operation Bagration (category Battles and operations of the Eastern Front of World War II)
4th Army. It was opposed by the 1st Baltic Front of Hovhannes Bagramyan, and Ivan Chernyakhovsky's 3rd Belorussian Front, which were given the task of breaking...
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In four days of urban warfare, Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front and the 3rd Belorussian Front captured the city of Königsberg, present day Kaliningrad...
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The 1st Belorussian Front (Russian: Пéрвый Белорусский фронт, Pervyy Belorusskiy front, also romanized "Byelorussian"), known without a numeral as the...
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dead and missing and 125,351 wounded and sick. It was renamed the 1st Baltic Front in October 1943. Colonel-General Ivan Konev (October 1941 - August...
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lit. 'Riga offensive operation') was part of the larger Baltic offensive on the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place late in 1944, and drove...
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Ivan Bagramyan (category Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 1st class)
1943 received his most prestigious command as the commander of the 1st Baltic Front. He did not immediately join the Communist Party after the consolidation...
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Groups North and Center. Through the following weeks the forces of 1st Baltic Front continued to expand the salient and attempt to outflank and encircle...
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Dietrich von Saucken) Elements of 3rd Belorussian Front (General Ivan Chernyakhovsky) Elements of 1st Baltic Front (General Hovhannes Bagramyan) The operation...
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Andrey Yeryomenko (category Military personnel of the 1st Cavalry Army)
4th Ukrainian Front. In April, Yeryomenko once again was sent north, to command the 2nd Baltic Front. During the summer campaign, 2nd Baltic was very successful...
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spoke on the radio and wrote an open letter to the soldiers of the 1st Baltic Front which received over 3,000 replies. She was awarded the title Hero of...
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over command of the 3rd Belorussian Front in February, incorporated General Hovhannes Bagramyan's 1st Baltic Front into his command from February 22, redesignating...
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наступательная операция) was an offensive operation by the Red Army's 1st Baltic Front against German forces of the 3rd Panzer Army around the town of Gorodok...
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sides. The 1st Baltic Front, supported by 3rd Air Army, attacked with the 4th Shock Army, 11th Guards Army and 43rd Army, while the Western Front, with support...
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divisions hurriedly transferred from Army Group North. Units of the 1st Baltic Front's 4th Shock Army and 6th Guards Army fought their way into the city...
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SMERSH (section UKR SMERSH units at the front)
Department headed counter-intelligence measures behind the front line. Five of the departments, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th. were involved directly in investigation...
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was reassigned to the 3rd Belorussian Front. On 1 December 1944 the 2nd Guards Army, part of the 1st Baltic Front, consisted of the 11th Guards Rifle Corps...
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Front, Warsaw, Budapest, Kolberg, Königsberg, Küstrin, Danzig and Breslau were some of the large cities selected as strongholds. On the Western Front...
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standard Red Army rifle division. It notably served on the front lines of the 1st Baltic Front during the Second World War. Particularly, it helped lead...
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Ernst Busch). 1st Baltic Front (General Hovhannes Bagramyan) 4th Shock Army 6th Guards Army 43rd Army 3rd Air Army 3rd Belorussian Front (General Ivan...
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had 'found in Russia'. In Operation Samland, General Baghramyan's 1st Baltic Front, now known as the Samland Group, captured Königsberg in April. Although...
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