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    The 3rd Belorussian Front (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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    The 1st Belorussian Front (Russian: Пéрвый Белорусский фронт, Pervyy Belorusskiy front, also romanized "Byelorussian"), known without a numeral as the...
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    by units of the 3rd Belorussian Front subsequent to their completion of the Minsk Offensive; they were opposed by the remnants of 3rd Panzer Army and...
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    wounds received outside Königsberg at age 37 while in command of the 3rd Belorussian Front. Ivan Chernyakhovsky was born on 29 June 1907 in Oksanyna [uk],...
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  • Belorussian Front, or Belarusian Front, may refer to several Soviet fronts (army groups) of the Second World War: Belorussian Front (1939), formed during...
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  • Belorussian Fronts (alternative spellings are Byelorussian Front and Belarusian Front) 1st Belorussian Front 2nd Belorussian Front 3rd Belorussian Front...
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    East Prussian offensive (category World War II aerial operations and battles of the Eastern Front)
    carried 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...
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    District (which before July 1940 was known as Belorussian Special Military District). The first Front Commander was Dmitry Pavlov (continuing from his...
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    terror of East Prussia". She became the first servicewoman of the 3rd Belorussian Front to receive the Order of Glory. Shanina was killed in action during...
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    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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    Army, under the command of General Friedrich Hossbach. While the 3rd Belorussian Front initially met strong resistance, the outnumbered German forces soon...
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    операция), was a Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front late in 1944, in which forces of the 3rd Belorussian Front attempted to penetrate the borders of East...
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    Aleksandr Vasilevsky (category Recipients of the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class)
    Stalingrad. In February 1945, Vasilevsky gained command of the 3rd Belorussian Front in Germany and stepped down as chief of the general staff. After...
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    and more men to fight towards the end of WWII. The role of the 3rd Belorussian Front in the first phase of Operation Bagration was essentially complete...
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    as Operation Bagration. The Kaunas offensive was executed by the 3rd Belorussian Front on July 28 – August 28, 1944, with the aim of destroying the German...
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    East Pomeranian offensive (category World War II aerial operations and battles of the Eastern Front)
    Königsberg. 2nd Belorussian Front (Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky) Eastern flank of 1st Belorussian Front (Marshal Georgy Zhukov) 3rd Shock Army 1st Guards...
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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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    Area of 1st Belorussian Front - 36th Fighter Aviation Division (405th, 591st, 651st, 827th Fighter Aviation Regiments) South-Western Front PVO (Air Defense)...
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  • the war near Königsberg as part of the 81st Rifle Corps in the 3rd Belorussian Front. With the 81st Rifle Corps, it was withdrawn to the Kiev Military...
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    into the Ukrainian Front. Like the Germans, the Soviets employed two primary offensive axes, each managed by a Front. Each Front commander had at his...
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    The 3rd Ukrainian Front (Russian: Третий Украинский фронт, romanized: Tretiy Ukrainskiy front) was a Front of the Soviet Red Army during World War II....
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    near Stalingrad, Kursk, and in the Belorussian and Berlin Operations. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945. 74th Rifle Division — established...
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  • Chistyakov) 3rd Belorussian Front 39th Army (Lieutenant-General Ivan Lyudnikov) On 5 October, Bagramyan opened the offensive against Raus's 3rd Panzer Army...
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    23 April it became subordinate to the 31st Army as part of the 3rd Belorussian Front and took up defense at the Olkhovka, Osinstroy line. In 1945-46...
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    2nd Belorussian Front May 1945. 66th AA Division – with 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945. 67th AA Division – with the 3rd Belorussian Front...
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  • had taken over command of the 3rd Belorussian Front in February, incorporated General Hovhannes Bagramyan's 1st Baltic Front into his command from February...
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    command. By 13 February, 3rd Belorussian Front had pushed 4th Army out of the Heilsberg triangle. After 13 March 3rd Belorussian Front had pushed 4th Army...
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  • from the Baltic Sea shores. Stavka issued Order No. 220126 to the 3rd Belorussian Front on 4 July, which required them to attack towards Maladzyechna and...
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    Kartashov Apr 29, 1943 – May 1946 3rd Department – was in charge both of identifying German agents working behind the Red Army front, and of radio games. In the...
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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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