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    The KerchEltigen operation was a World War II amphibious offensive made in November 1943 by the Red Army as a precursor to the Crimean offensive (8 April-12...
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  • Eltigen may refer to: 2217 Eltigen, main-belt asteroid Eltigen (Heroyevskoe), part of the city of Kerch, Crimea KerchEltigen Operation, World War II...
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    The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, which commenced with the Soviet Kerch-Feodosia Landing Operation (Russian: Керченско-Феодосийская десантная операция...
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    strategy such as the KerchEltigen Operation, and a strategic opening of a new Theatre of Operations, for example the Operation Avalanche. The purpose...
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    are part of the Kerch city: Eltigen (Heroyevskoe), Kamysh-Burun (Arshyntsevo), Port Krym, Adzhimushkai, and Tuzla Island. Today Kerch is home to many...
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    October 1943, the 17th Army withdrew from the Kuban bridgehead across the Kerch Strait into the Crimea. During the following months, the Red Army pushed...
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  • Soviets also crossed the Strait of Kerch and established bridgeheads north and south of Eltigen in the KerchEltigen operation. As the Soviet offensive thrust...
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    Crimean campaign (category Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War)
    three sub-operations:[citation needed] KerchEltigen Operation (31 October 1943 – 11 December 1943) Perekop–Sevastopol Offensive Operation (8 April 1944...
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  • and soon began preparing its own crossing of the strait. The Kerch-Eltigen landing operation began overnight on October 31/November 1, 1943, when the three...
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  • awarded the title for reportedly killing 32 German soldiers in the KerchEltigen Operation during November 1943. After the war Abaev worked in the rail transport...
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    Mustafayev was awarded the title for his actions during the KerchEltigen Operation. During the operation, Mustafayev reportedly killed 40 German soldiers. For...
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  • leadership of a battalion during the KerchEltigen Operation. During the operation, Aliyev's battalion captured the Kerch Metallurgical Plant and reportedly...
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    Night Bomber Aviation Regiment. In 1943, the Army supported the Kerch-Eltigen Operation and assisted in the battle for air superiority over the Kuban....
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    1943 – May 1944: Provided air support to ground troops in the KerchEltigen Operation as part of the Crimean Offensive and in the city of Sevastopol...
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  • assigned troops from the 56th Army, and to be the assault army in KerchEltigen Operation to establish a bridgehead on the Crimean peninsula. By November...
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    awarded the title on 17 November 1943 for his actions during the KerchEltigen Operation, in which he reportedly saved his commander's life on 1 November...
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  • November 1943 for his actions in the Battle of the Caucasus and the KerchEltigen Operation. During the battle to break through the Blue Line, Guliyev was...
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    he became commander of the 16th Rifle Corps and fought in the KerchEltigen Operation and Crimean Offensive. In May 1944, Provalov transferred to command...
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    the Order of Lenin on 17 November 1943 for her bravery in the Kerch-Eltigen operation. Petrova was born on 9 September 1920 to a Russian family in Mykolaiv...
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    military decoration given to those who fought in the Kuban bridgehead Kerch-Eltigen Operation Courland Pocket Malaya Zemlya 2nd Guards Taman Motor Rifle Division...
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    Line Operation Margarethe Crimean Offensive (1944) Kerch-Eltigen Operation Shyaulyay Offensive Battle of Someri Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive Operation Bagration:...
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    Crete. Crimea, Army Group Rear Area Command Crimean offensive, KerchEltigen operation and Battle of the Dnieper Erwin Jaenecke → Ferdinand Schörner →...
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    successful naval landing by Soviet forces on the Kerch peninsula (the KerchEltigen Operation), then held by German forces. On 4 October 1942, Isakov was injured...
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  • Germany. Kieseritzky was killed on 19 November 1943 during the KerchEltigen Operation and was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross, on 20 November...
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    anti-tank role. The anti-tank unit took part in operations against the Soviet KerchEltigen Operation. The footage from an onboard gun camera was used...
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  • in the Battles of Uman, the Sea of Azov, and Rostov, and in the KerchEltigen Operation in 1943. During 1944 and 1945 it withdrew through Ukraine and Slovakia...
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  • awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his actions in the Kerch-Eltigen operation. "Mikhail Grigoryevich Bondarenko". Герои страны ("Heroes of the...
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  • member of the Axis, Romania joined the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) on 22 June 1941, providing equipment and oil to Nazi Germany...
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  • reformed three times, most famously after being encircled in the Lyuban operation south of Leningrad, after which its commander, General Andrey Vlasov,...
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    Starting from 3 November 1943, the division acted in the spearhead of Kerch-Eltigen Operation in northern Yenikale (Ganikale) beachhead, under the command of...
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