Belorussian strategic offensive operation

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The Belorussian strategic offensive operation, also known as Operation Bagration, was a major 1944 Soviet World War II campaign that destroyed Germany’s Army Group Centre and decisively shifted the Eastern Front in favor of the Red Army.

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instanceOf Soviet strategic offensive operation
World War II military operation
military offensive
alsoKnownAs Belarusian strategic offensive operation
Operation Bagration
belligerent Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
capturedCity Bobruisk
linked to: Babruysk

Brest
linked to: Brest (Belarus)

Minsk
Mogilev
Orsha
Vitebsk
casualtiesInflicted hundreds of thousands of German casualties
commander Aleksandr Vasilevsky NERFINISHED
Georgy Zhukov
Ivan Bagramyan
Ivan Chernyakhovsky NERFINISHED
Konstantin Rokossovsky
componentOf Soviet 1944 summer offensives
conflict World War II
dateEnd 1944-08-19
dateStart 1944-06-22
followedBy Lublin–Brest offensive
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive
frontInvolved 1st Baltic Front
1st Belorussian Front
2nd Belorussian Front
3rd Belorussian Front
location Belorussian SSR
eastern Poland
linked to: Eastern Poland

eastern front of Europe
namedAfter Pyotr Bagration
objective advance toward Vistula River
destruction of German Army Group Centre
liberation of Belorussian SSR from German occupation
opponent Army Group Centre
opposingCommander Ernst Busch
Walter Model
partOf Eastern Front of World War II
plannedBy Soviet Stavka
linked to: Soviet High Command
precededBy Dnieper–Carpathian offensive
result decisive Soviet victory
destruction of German Army Group Centre
major shift of Eastern Front in favor of Red Army
scale one of the largest operations of World War II
strategicImpact broke German defensive line in the center of Eastern Front
enabled Soviet advance toward Poland and Germany
year 1944

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Soviet deep operations doctrine appliedInOperation Belorussian strategic offensive operation
11th Guards Army participatedIn Belorussian Offensive
linked to: Belorussian strategic offensive operation
31st Army participatedIn Belarusian campaign
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Kaunas offensive precededBy Operation Bagration
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5th Guards Tank Army notableEngagement Belorussian Offensive
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Western Front (Red Army) engagedIn Operation Bagration
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Soviet 1944 spring offensives followedBy Operation Bagration
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Soviet 3rd Army participatedIn Operation Bagration
linked to: Belorussian strategic offensive operation
Vitebsk–Orsha offensive partOf Belorussian strategic offensive operation
Orsha offensive (1944) partOf Belorussian strategic offensive operation
Minsk offensive (1944) partOf Belorussian strategic offensive operation (1944)
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49th Army participatedIn Operation Bagration
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Defense of the Eastern Front notableEngagement Operation Bagration
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Belorussian strategic offensive operation alsoKnownAs Belarusian strategic offensive operation
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