The second Smolensk operation (code naming "Suvorov"; 7 August – 2 October 1943) was a Soviet strategic offensive operation conducted by the Red Army as...

major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Approximately...

of Mogilev with Bagration; he went to Orsha, and crossed the Dniepr on his way to Smolensk. Davout thought Bagration had some 60,000 men and Bagration...

Army, as well. Timoshenko's orders were to defend the Western Dvina River-Dniepr River line. To this end the front deployed on its northern flank the 22nd...

probably Baltic tribe of Galindians (in particular Eastern Galindians ). Dniepr Balts Moshchiny (Russian: Мощины) Kaluga Oblast. Russia. (in German) Matthias...

albeit at the cost of his rearguard's sacrifice. Outside Smolensk, leaving the floodplain of the Dniepr, there is a steep slope passing into a long descent...

in the month it was subordinated to 26th Army as it retreated toward the Dniepr River, but after crossing south of Kyiv it was reassigned to 38th Army....

encirclement of Western Front's forces north of the Dniepr River, east of that city and west of Smolensk. The elongated pocket contained most of 20th Army...

south by rail, abandoning its positions along the upper reaches of the Dniepr River, but was soon ordered back when the offensive became more widespread...

252nd Infantry Divisions of IX Corps roughly halfway between the Sozh and Dniepr Rivers. For the new attack set for October 3 the 164th was initially held...

during the Second World War. It was disbanded by being redesignated HQ Smolensk Military District in 1945. It was initially formed in the Moscow Military...

Pennsylvania Holzhausen, p. 74 [1] [2] [3] Photos of the Losvinka and Dniepr by Elena Minina, Smolensk The real places of the crossing of Marshal Ney's 3rd Corps...

account, Radziwiłł became aware that the Russian army would be crossing the Dniepr river; he had about 2,000 cavalry and some few thousands of infantry (including...

Timoshenko's immediate aim was to defend the "Smolensk Gates" along the lines of the Dvina and Dniepr Rivers, and the 22nd was initially assigned a sector...

northeastern Ukraine and into Belarus, taking part in the battles along the Dniepr and Sozh River in the vicinity of Gomel. In early December the 1st Ukrainian...

of Western Front and seize two small bridgeheads on the east bank of the Dniepr River, which ran along the forward edge of the first belt of the Rzhev-Vyazma...

Center fell back to the promised refuge of the Panther Line behind the Dniepr River. However, the 178th had already left the fighting front on September...

Banner for bravery in the defensive battles at the Solovyo crossing of the Dniepr. Colonel Dovator conducted a successful fighting withdrawal, crossing a...

then the Wehrmacht could "mop up" the remaining enemy forces beyond the Dniepr. The Luftwaffe was essential in the kind of operations the Axis' ground...

have started the assault earlier, at 12:30 on 5 November, reaching the Dniepr at 02:00 on the 6th, after sweeping through the western suburbs of the city...

of Kiev in September 1941, the German Army Group South advanced from the Dniepr River to the Sea of Azov coast. Walther von Reichenau's 6th Army captured...

to break into Smolensk just as it was being evacuated by the bulk of the German forces, which blew up all three bridges across the Dniepr in the process...

settled in the later territory of the Kievan Rus between the Western Bug, the Dniepr and the Black Sea: the Polans, Drevlyans, Dregovichs, Radimichs, Vyatichs...

Accursed") seized the throne and killed three of his brothers, Sviatoslav of Smolensk and the better-known Boris and Gleb, the first saints of the Rus' Orthodox...

que débutent des tentatives pour ressusciter le trafic commercial sur le Dniepr, interrompu depuis un demi-siècle, et que commence le développement urbain...

printing-shop workers in Smolensk. In 1907, he began his journalist career as editor of the newspaper Dneprovskaya Zarya ('Dniepr Dawn'). This newspaper...

Rifle Corps. It held positions at Ponizova (south of Orsha) and on the Dniepr, a front of 20 kilometers. On July 5, the division's 176th Reconnaissance...

(10,000) commanded by General Emmanuel de Grouchy crossed as first the Dniepr at Mogilev Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte King of Westphalia (62,000)...

variations. It served as part of 29th Army in the heavy fighting around Smolensk in July and August, then later in the counteroffensive operations around...

various types, into an elongated pocket along and north of the Dniepr west of Smolensk. During the prolonged struggle for the pocket the 20th and 19th...