the city with Brest-Litovsk and Rivne. In 1877 Kovel was linked by the Vistula River Railroad with Lublin and Warsaw. Meir Auerbach (1815–1877), first Ashkenazi...
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The Lublin–Brest Offensive (Russian: Люблин‐Брестская наступательная операция, romanized: Lyublin-Brestskaya nastupatel'naya operatsiya, 18 July – 2 August...
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Operation Bagration (redirect from Belorussian Offensive)
reinforcements. Furthermore, during this Soviet offensive in the spring of 1944, aimed at the city of Kovel, Army Group Center was significantly weakened...
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railway connection to Warsaw and Kovel and Lublin Station were constructed, spurring industrial development. Lublin's population grew from 28,900 in 1873...
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of Kovel, which they encircled. The German command rushed reinforcements to the area which successfully broke the siege. The Polesskoye offensive was...
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striking in the Kovel-Lublin-Brest direction, which allowed the Red Army to come to the flank and the rear of Army Group Center. This offensive also created...
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Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive. After the capture of Odessa, the army was transferred to the Kovel area and fought in the Lublin–Brest Offensive during the summer...
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Great Retreat (Russia) (section Offensive)
eventually abandoned by the Russians, followed by a German chlorine gas attack. Kovel was abandoned by the Russians on 21 August, and Stavka abandoned Baranovichi...
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Polish–Soviet War (redirect from July Offensive (1920))
on 13 September took Kovel. The Polish 6th Army under Haller, together with the Ukrainian People's Army, launched their offensive from eastern Galicia...
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ordeal in the Cherkassy Pocket, the division was ordered to the town of Kovel to help contain a Soviet breakthrough. Only a portion of the division's...
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Polesskoe offensive, during which it defeated the German troops around Kovel and created conditions for the offensive on the Brest and Lublin axis. After...
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175th Rifle Division (section Lublin-Brest Offensive)
eliminating a German salient around Kovel, and received its name as a battle honor. During the main Lublin–Brest offensive later that month it advanced through...
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185th Rifle Division (section Lublin–Brest Offensive)
south of the Pripyat Marshes in the area of Kovel, and so played no role in the initial stages of the offensive. Colonel Aksyonov left the division on July...
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Banner and the Kovel honorific in recognition of actions in northwestern Ukraine, and in early 1945 participated in the Vistula–Oder Offensive, the East Pomeranian...
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war. It was active at the Battle of Kursk, the Lublin–Brest Offensive, and the Berlin Strategic Offensive, among other actions. The army began forming in...
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The Vistula–Bug offensive from July 13 to August 28, 1915, was a major Central Powers offensive with the decisive role of the German Imperial Army during...
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Lublin–Brest Offensive, the corps broke through German defenses west of Kovel, crossed the Western Bug, entered Polish territory, and captured Lublin...
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Turya river in Kovel Oblast, then as part of the 69th Army of the front took part in the Lublin-Brest, Warsaw-Poznan, and Berlin offensives, forcing the...
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regions of the Pinsk Marshes, and around Lutsk, Shepetovka, Tarnopol, and Kovel in western Galicia. However, following the transfer of several of its panzer...
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Makrany – Domanove / M 19 ( E85) and T0304 Chacislaw – Zabolottia (railway) (Kovel (railway, freight)) Chernihiv–Ovruch railway is used by Ukrzaliznytsia only...
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during the Nikopol-Krivoi Rog Offensive. In early June 1944, the corps was transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front at Kovel. Under Glazunov's command, the...
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relocated to the Kovel region in June to join the 1st Belorussian Front, after receiving reinforcements. During the Lublin–Brest Offensive on 21 July the...
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370th Rifle Division (section Vistula-Oder Offensive)
redirected towards Lublin, which was liberated by 8th Guards on July 23. On August 9, the 370th was decorated for its part in the liberation of Kovel with the award...
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234th Rifle Division (section Lublin–Brest Offensive)
Marshes in the area of Kovel, and so played no role in the initial stages of the offensive. The west wing Armies joined the offensive at 0530 hours on July...
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Banner for its part in the breakthrough of the German defenses west of Kovel and at the end of August earned the honorific "Brest", along with one of...
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Polish minority in Volhynia, Eastern Galicia, parts of Polesia and the Lublin region from 1943 to 1945. The ruling Germans also actively encouraged both...
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fought in the Lublin–Brest Offensive. On 18 June, the division's 1083rd Rifle Regiment broke through the first German line south of Kovel. Moiseyevsky...
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commanders were rescued by motorized infantry. On 18 July, the Lublin–Brest Offensive began. The regiment broke through German defenses in the area of...
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the oblast include: Saint Petersburg—Kyiv—Odesa (M-01/M-05 route) Kyiv-Kovel-Lublin (M-07 route) Voronezh—Kharkiv-Kyiv-Lviv-Kraków (E-40, M-06/M03 route)...
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liberated Odessa in April. Turning north into Moldavia the division liberated Kovel before participating in the Lvov-Sandomir Operation, which began on 13 July...
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