24.733°E / 59.433; 24.733 The Tallinn offensive (Russian: Таллинская наступательная операция) was a strategic offensive by the Red Army's 2nd Shock and...
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Baltic Fronts and cleared the eastern coast of the Gulf of Riga. The Tallinn offensive (Russian: Таллинская наступательная операция) (17–26 September 1944)...
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Battle of Narva (1944) (redirect from Oranienbaum Offensive)
of the troops in mainland Estonia. The 2nd Shock Army launched its Tallinn Offensive on 17 September from the Emajõgi River Front in South Estonia. At...
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Battle of Tallinn, the final battle of that offensive. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Battle of Tallinn. If an internal...
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flee. German forces started its Tallinn Offensive on 19 August 1941, capturing Rapla on 21 August 1941. They reached Tallinn outskirts in Pirita on 24 August...
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Liberation of Tallinn from Nazi Invaders (Russian: День освобождения Таллина от немецко-фашистских захватчиков), celebrating the Soviet Tallinn Offensive by the...
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San Marino began during the Italian Campaign. The Soviets began the Tallinn Offensive. The Battle of Angaur began between U.S. and Japanese forces in the...
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Pass Baltic Offensive Riga Offensive (1944) Tallinn Offensive Battle of Porkuni Moonsund Landing Operation Battle of Memel Belgrade Offensive Operation...
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Estonia in World War II (section Baltic Offensive)
supporting the German side against the Soviet offensive. The Soviet Long Range Aviation assaulted Tallinn on the night before 9 March. Approximately 40%...
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the Pechenga Nickel Works in German hands. When the Soviets opened an offensive against the Arctic sector, the division took part in the fighting. In...
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held their positions.[page range too broad][page needed] The Soviet Tallinn offensive of the 2nd Shock and 8th Armies commenced on the early morning of...
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Operation Bagration (redirect from Belorussian Offensive)
Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation (Russian: Белорусская наступательная операция «Багратион»,...
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careful archaeological work.[citation needed] "The Soviet Dunkirk: The Tallinn Offensive". warfarehistorynetwork.com. Archived from the original on 2019-05-03...
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half of the Operation. 1944 – World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro-independence Estonian units. 1944 – World...
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Battle of Berlin (redirect from Berlin Offensive)
Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre...
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Estonian War of Independence (redirect from German evacuation of Tallinn (1918))
democratically elected Estonian leadership underground in the capital Tallinn. A few months later, in February 1918, using the interval between the Red...
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offensive lasted from 10 June to 9 August 1944. Narva Offensive (July 1944) Tallinn Offensive Moonsund Landing Operation During the war, the 13th Air...
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Tannenberg Line. On 17 September, the 3rd Baltic Front launched the Tallinn Offensive from the Emajõgi River Front joining Lake Peipus with Lake Võrtsjärv...
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Battles of Rzhev (redirect from Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive)
Ржевская битва, romanized: Rzhevskaya bitva) were a series of Red Army offensives against the Wehrmacht between 8 January 1942 and 31 March 1943, on the...
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prisoners of war. On 17 September 1944, the Red Army launched the Tallinn offensive and Litzmann departed for Hungary. The city was abandoned by the German...
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8th Army took mainland Estonia in the Tallinn Offensive in September. As a subset of the overall Baltic Offensive, 8th Army was part of the Moonsund Operation...
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kilometres northeast of the town of Tamsalu during the Leningrad Front's Tallinn Offensive Operation (17 September 1944 – 26 September 1944). The 249th Rifle...
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The East Prussian offensive was a strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (World War II). It lasted...
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The Riga offensive (Russian: Рижская наступательная операция, lit. 'Riga offensive operation') was part of the larger Baltic offensive on the Eastern...
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Narva Offensive. The offensive was carried out from the bridgehead, which later received the name "Fedyuninsky bridgehead". At the end of the Tallinn offensive...
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Battle of Kursk (redirect from Kursk Offensive)
After the German offensive stalled on the northern side of the salient, on 12 July, the Soviets commenced their Kursk Strategic Offensive Operation with...
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Operation Mars (redirect from 2nd Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive)
Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation (Russian: Вторая Ржевско-Сычёвская наступательная операция), was the codename for an offensive launched by Soviet...
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The Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919 was part of the campaign by Soviet Russia into areas abandoned by the Ober Ost garrisons that were being withdrawn...
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(code naming "Suvorov"; 7 August – 2 October 1943) was a Soviet strategic offensive operation conducted by the Red Army as part of the Summer-Autumn Campaign...
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Operation Spring Awakening (redirect from Lake Balaton offensive)
was the last major German offensive of World War II. The operation was referred to in Germany as the Plattensee Offensive and in the Soviet Union as...
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