operated in Karelia. The Karelian Front was created in August 1941 when Northern Front was split into Karelian Front and Leningrad Front to take account of...
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Petersburg) by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front on August 27, 1941. The Leningrad Front was immediately given the task...
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Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive (redirect from Karelian offensive)
Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive or Karelian offensive was a strategic operation by the Soviet Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus and East...
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Baltic Front Oct–Dec 1943. Karelian Front – formed from Northern Front, along with Leningrad Front, on 23 August 1941. Kursk Front Leningrad Front – formed...
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Kirill Meretskov (section Karelian Front and Manchuria)
the 7th Army and later the Volkhov Front during the 1941–1944 siege of Leningrad. He commanded the Karelian Front from February 1944, notably the Petsamo–Kirkenes...
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Karelian (Karelian Proper and Livvi-Karelian: karjala, karjalan kieli; Ludian: kard'al, kard'alan kiel'; Tver Karelian: kariela, karielan kieli) is a Finnic...
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The memorial award badge To the Valiant Soldier of the Karelian Front (‹See Tfd›Russian: наградной памятный знак (жетон) "Честному воину Карельского фронта")...
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of the 14th Army, and from September 1941 to February 1944, of the Karelian Front. After the war from 1945 to 1956 commanded the troops of Belomorsky...
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1941, the Front's forces were divided into the Karelian Front and the Leningrad Front. Lieutenant General Markian M. Popov commanded the Front for the three...
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for this operation, the Russians went over to the offensive on the Karelian Front. The Stavka decided to move against the German forces in the Arctic...
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and engineering formations. It became part of the Northern Front, then the Karelian Front, and conducted defensive operations in Karelia, however losing...
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Republic of Karelia (redirect from Karelian Republic)
of Karelia, Karjala or Karelia (‹See Tfd›Russian: Каре́лия, Ка́рьяла; Karelian: Karjala) is a republic of Russia situated in the northwest of the country...
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Republic of Uhtua (redirect from East Karelian Republic)
a national Karelian emblem and colors to have in a national flag. By discussing, we have approved the following: Emblem - a bear in front of a log with...
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Markian Popov. On 23 August 1941, the Northern Front was split into the Karelian Front and the Leningrad Front, commanded by Valerian Frolov and Popov, respectively...
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Lapland War (category Eastern Front (World War II))
the situation. The 20th Mountain Army had been fighting the Soviet Karelian Front since Operation Barbarossa along the 700 km (430 mi) stretch from the...
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Siege of Leningrad (category World War II aerial operations and battles of the Eastern Front)
23 August, the Northern Front was divided into the Leningrad Front and the Karelian Front, as it became impossible for front headquarters to control everything...
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The Karelian Isthmus (‹See Tfd›Russian: Карельский перешеек, romanized: Karelsky peresheyek; Finnish: Karjalankannas; Swedish: Karelska näset) is the approximately...
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Continuation War (redirect from Finnish Front of the Great Patriotic War)
Finnish and German forces split the Soviet Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and the Karelian Front on 23 August. On 31 August, Finnish Headquarters...
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operation, the Soviets decided to seize the offensive initiative on the Karelian Front. The Stavka decided to move against the German forces in the Arctic...
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Winter War (category Karelian Isthmus)
Army Chief of Staff Boris Shaposhnikov advocated a narrow-front assault right on the Karelian isthmus. Additionally, Shaposhnikov argued for a fuller build-up...
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August 1943 to February 1944 as the Deputy Commander of the Volkhov Front and Karelian Front. From 1945-1948, he commanded the Ural Military District, retiring...
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The 2nd Belorussian Front (‹See Tfd›Russian: Второй Белорусский фронт, Vtoroi Belorusskiy front, also romanized "Byelorussian"), was a major formation...
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Belorussian Front (‹See Tfd›Russian: 3-й Белорусский фронт) was a Front of the Red Army during the Second World War. The 3rd Belorussian Front was created...
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Ukki Väinämöinen (category Russian Karelian people)
1942), was a Karelian ideological leader known for his role in the East Karelian uprising. Vasily Sidorov was born in 1855, in the Karelian village of Tunguda...
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Koptsov was transferred to the Karelian Front where he defended against Finnish attacks, and then to the Volkhov Front where he fought in the Tikhvin...
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by White Guards who had been fighting at the Karelian Front and White Army soldiers from the Savo Front. On the night of 27–28 April, a group of Reds...
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SMERSH (section UKR SMERSH units at the front)
attempts by Nazi German forces to infiltrate the Red Army on the Eastern Front. The official statute of SMERSH listed the following tasks to be performed...
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The 1st Belorussian Front (‹See Tfd›Russian: Пéрвый Белорусский фронт, Pervyy Belorusskiy front, also romanized "Byelorussian"), known without a numeral...
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reintroduction of the stockpiled Fedorovs into service. They were sent to the Karelian front, mostly to military intelligence units. It is presumed that most of...
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Livvi-Karelian edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Livvi-Karelian (Alternate names: Liygi, Livvi, Livvikovian, Olonets, Southern Olonetsian, Karelian;...
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