Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II

The Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II were major military events on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, commonly conducted by at least one Front or major part of its forces. The operations could be either defensive, offensive, a withdrawal, an encirclement, or a siege, always conducted by at least two Services of the armed forces, the ground forces and the air forces, and often included the naval forces. In most cases the strategic operations were divided into operational phases which were large operations in their own right. In very few cases the phases were tactical, such as those requiring amphibious landings.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Periods, Campaigns and operations 3 1. First Period of the Great Patriotic War (22 June 1941 - 18 November 1942) 3.1 Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1941 (22 June - 4 December) 3.2 Winter Campaign of 1941/42 (5 December 1941 - 30 April 1942) 3.3 Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1942 (1 May - 18 November) 4 2. Second Period of the Great Patriotic War (19 November 1942 - 31 December 1943) 4.1 Winter Campaign of 1942-1943 (19 November 1942 - 3 March 1943) 4.2 Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1943 (1 July - 31 December) 5 3. Third Period of the Great Patriotic War (1 January 1944 - 9 May 1945) 5.1 Winter Spring Campaign of 1944 (1 January - 31 May) 5.2 Summer Autumn Campaign of 1944 (1 June - 31 December) 5.3 Campaign in Europe 1945 (1 January - 9 May) 6 Sources and references 7 See also 8 External links

Introduction

In Soviet historiography, the Great Patriotic War (termed the Eastern Front by Germany) is divided into periods:

1. First period of World War II (22 June 1941 - 18 November 1942)
2. Second period of World War II (19 November 1942 - 31 December 1943)
3. Third period of World War II (1 January 1944 - 9 May 1945)

The war with Japan, Campaign in the Far East/Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation, (9 August 1945–2 September 1945) is seen as a separate theater of operations from the Great Patriotic War.

During the course of the Second World War the Red Army carried out a number of different military operations. The scope of these operations, usually known by the major cities around which they took place, was usually termed "operational-strategic" or "strategic", depending on the scale. An "operational-strategic" operation was usually undertaken by at least a group of Armies or a single Front. A "strategic" operation usually demanded cooperation of several Fronts to achieve its objectives. In both cases the operations could last from a week to several months. Strategic operations were combined into seasonal campaigns, because weather and ground conditions affected planning.

Periods, Campaigns and operations

• Aufbau Ost, German operational code name for the mobilisation of forces prior to commencement of Operation Barbarossa
• Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

1. First Period of the Great Patriotic War (22 June 1941 - 18 November 1942)

Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1941 (22 June - 4 December)

• Axis Operation Barbarossa
• Baltic Operation (1941) 22 June 1941 - 9 July 1941

Baltic Border Defensive Battles 22 June 1941 - 24 June 1941

Battle of Raseiniai

Shyaulyai Counter-Offensive (1941) 24 June 1941 - 27 June 1941

Defensive of the Hanko Naval Base 22 June 1941 - 2 December 1941

• German Battle of Białystok-Minsk/Offensive Campaign in Belorussia 22 June 1941 - 29 June 1941
• Belorussian Strategic Defensive 22 June 1941 - 9 July 1941

Belorussian Border Defensive Battles 22 June 1941 - 25 June 1941

Defense of Brest Fortress 22 June 1941 - 30 June 1941

Borisov-Lepel' Offensive 6 July 1941 - 9 July 1941

• L'vov-Chernovitsy Strategic Defensive 22 June 1941 - 9 July 1941

Ukrainian Border Defensive Battles 22 June 1941 - 27 June 1941

Battle of Brody (1941) (26 June 1941 - 30 June 1941)

L'vov-Lutsk Defensive 27 June 1941 - 2 July 1941

Stanislav-Proskurov Defensive 3 July 1941 - 6 July 1941

• German and Finnish Operation Arctic Fox 29 June 1941 - mid-July
• Artic-Karelia Strategic Defensive 29 June 1941 - 10 October 1941

Murmansk-Kandalaksha Defensive 29 June 1941 - 19 September 1941

Vyborg-Keksholm Defensive 29 June 1941 - 23 September 1941

Defensives on the Kestengsky direction 1 July 1941 - 10 October 1941

Defensives on the Petrozavodsk, Ukhinskom-Rugozerskom, and Olonetskom directions 1 July 1941 - 10 October 1941

• Moldavian Defensive 1 July 1941 - 26 July 1941
• Kiev Strategic Defensive (1941) 7 July 1941 - 26 September 1941

Korosten Defensive 11 July 1941 - 20 August 1941

Novgorod-Volynskii Defensive 10 July 1941 - 20 August 1941

Uman Defensive 15 July 1941 - 4 August 1941

Tiraspol-Melitopol Defensive 27 July 1941 - 28 September 1941

Kiev-Pryluky Defensive 20 August 1941 - 26 September 1941

Malin Offensive 5 August 1941 - 8 August 1941

• Leningrad Strategic Defensive 10 July 1941 - 30 September 1941

Tallinn Defensive 10 July 1941 - 10 August 1941

Evacuation of Tallinn (1941)

Kingisepp-Luga Defensive 10 July 1941 - 23 September 1941

Soltsy-Dno Offensive 15 July 1941 - 20 July 1941

Staraia-Russa Offensive 8 August 1941 - 23 August 1941

Demyansk Defensive 6 September 1941 - 26 September 1941

• Battle Of Smolensk 10 July 1941 - 10 September 1941

Smolensk Defensive 10 July 1941 - 10 August 1941

Smolensk Offensive 21 July 1941 - 7 August 1941

Rogechev-Zhlobin Offensive 13 July 1941 - 24 July 1941

Gomel-Trubchevsk Defensive 24 July 1941 - 30 August 1941

Dukhovskina Offensive 17 August 1941 - 8 September 1941

Yelnia Offensive 30 August 1941 - 8 September 1941

Roslavl-Novozybkov Offensive 30 August 1941 - 12 September 1941

• Odessa Defensive 5 August 1941 - 16 October 1941
• Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran 23 August 1941 - 18 September 1941
• German Operation Wotan (Angriff am Moskow) 9 September
• Donbass-Rostov Strategic Defensive 29 September 1941 - 16 November 1941

Sumy-Kharkov Defensive 30 September 1941 - 30 November 1941

Defence of Kharkov (1941) (20 October 1941 — 24 October 1941)

German First Battle of Kharkov

• Axis Crimean Campaign 26 September 1941 - 15 May 1942

Donbass Defensive (1941) 29 September 1941 - 4 November 1941

Rostov Defensive 5 November 1941 - 16 November 1941

• Moscow Strategic Defensive 30 September 1941 - 5 December 1941

Orel-Bryansk Defensive 30 September 1941 - 23 October 1941

Vyazma Defensive 2 October 1941 - 13 October 1941

Kalinin Defensive 10 October 1941 - 4 December 1941

Mozhaisk-Maloyaroslavets Defensive 10 October 1941 - 30 October 1941

Tula Defensive 24 October 1941 - 5 December 1941

Klin-Solnechnogorsk Defensive 15 November 1941 - 5 December 1941

Naro-Fominsk Defensive 1 December 1941 - 5 December 1941

• Tikhvin Defensive 16 October 1941 - 18 November 1941
• Crimean Defensive 18 October 1941 - 16 November 1941
• Defense of Sevastopol 30 October 1941 - 4 July 1942
• Tikhvin Strategic Offensive 10 November 1941 - 30 December 1941

Tikhvin-Kirishsk Offensive 12 November 1941 - 30 December 1941

Malo-Vishersk Offensive 10 November 1941 - 30 December 1941

• Rostov Strategic Offensive 17 November 1941 - 2 December 1941

Bolshekrepinsk Offensive 17 November 1941 - 27 November 1941

Rostov Offensive 27 November 1941 - 2 December 1941

Winter Campaign of 1941/42 (5 December 1941 - 30 April 1942)

• Moscow Strategic Offensive 5 December 1941 - 7 January 1942

Kalinin Offensive 5 December 1941 - 7 January 1942

Klin-Solnechnogorsk Offensive 6 December 1941 - 25 December 1941

Yelets Offensive 6 December 1941 - 16 December 1941

Tula Offensive 6 December 1941 - 16 December 1941

Kaluga Offensive 17 December 1941 - 5 January 1942

Naro-Fominsk Offensive 24 December 1941 - 8 January 1942

• Kerch-Feodosia Amphibious 25 December 1941 - 2 January 1942

Kerch Landing 25 December 1941 - 2 January 1942

Feodosia Landing 25 December 1941 - 2 January 1942

• Oboyan-Kursk Offensive 3 January 1942 - 26 January 1942
• Lyuban Offensive 7 January 1942 - 30 April 1942
• Demyansk Offensive - first phase (1942) 7 January 1942 - 20 May 1942
• Orel-Bolkhov Offensive 8 January 1942 - 28 April 1942
• Rzhev-Vyazma Strategic Offensive 8 January 1942 - 20 April 1942

Sychevka-Vyazma Offensive 8 January 1942 - 28 February 1942

Mozhaisk-Vyazma Offensive 10 January 1942 - 28 February 1942

Toropets-Kholm Offensive 9 January 1942 - 6 February 1942

Vyazma Airborne 18 January 1942 - 28 February 1942

Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive 3 March 1942 - 20 April 1942

Demyansk Offensive - second phase (1942) 7 January 1942 - 20 May 1942

• Barvenkovo-Lozovaya Offensive 18 January 1942 - 31 January 1942
• Crimean Offensive 27 January 1942 - 15 April 1942
• Bolkhov Offensive 24 March 1942 - 3 April 1942

Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1942 (1 May - 18 November)

• Crimean Offensive 27 January 1942 - 15 April 1942
• German Demjansk Pocket 8 February 1942 - 21 April 1942
• Volkhov Offensive 24 March 1942 - 3 April 1942
• Battle of the Kerch Peninsula 8 May 1942 - 19 May 1942
• Izium bridgehead offensive 12 May 1942 - 29 May 1942
• Rescue of 2nd Shock Army 13 May 1942 - 10 July 1942
• Axis Case Blue 28 June - 19 August 1942

German Fall Kremel ("Case Kremlin" in English) was a German deception for a summer offensive aimed at Moscow

Axis Case Blue - Woronesh Army Group B

Axis Case Blue - Stalingrad 6th Army

Axis Case Blue - Baku Army Group A

• Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad Strategic Defensive 28 June 1942 - 24 July 1942

1st Kastornoye Defensive 28 June 1942 - 10 July 1942

2nd Kastornoye Defensive9 July 1942 - 24 July 1942

Valuiki-Rossosh Defensive 28 June 1942 - 24 July 1942

Battle for Voronezh (1942)

Voroshilovgrad-Shakhty Defensive 7 July 1942 - 24 July 1942

• Donbass Defensive (1942) 7 July 1942 - 24 July 1942
• German Operation Seydlitz 12 July 1942
• Stalingrad Strategic Defensive 17 July 1942 - 18 November 1942

Defensive Battles at Distant Approaches 17 July 1942 - 17 August 1942

• Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive 30 July 1942 - 23 August 1942

Defensive Battles on Near Approaches and in Stalingrad 19 August 1942 - 18 November 1942

• Sinyavino Offensive 19 August 1942 - 10 October 1942

Chechen 1940-1944 insurgency in Chechnya

• Axis Operation Braunschweig 23 July 1942 -
• Axis Operation Edelweiss 23 July 1942 - 21 August 1942
• North Caucasian Strategic Defensive 25 July 1942 - 31 December 1942

Tikhoretsk-Stavropol' Defensive 25 July 1942 - 5 August 1942

Armavir-Maikop Defensive 6 August 1942 - 17 August 1942

Novorossiysk Defensive 19 August 1942 - 26 September 1942

Mozdok-Malgobek Defensive 1 September 1942 - 28 September 1942

• Axis Operation Blücher 2 September 1942

Tuapse Defensive 25 September 1942 - 20 December 1942

Nalckik-Ordzhonikidze Defensive 25 October 1942 - 12 November 1942

2. Second Period of the Great Patriotic War (19 November 1942 - 31 December 1943)

Winter Campaign of 1942-1943 (19 November 1942 - 3 March 1943)

• Stalingrad Strategic Offensive 19 November 1942 - 2 February 1943

Operation Uranus 19 November 1942 - 30 November 1942

Kotelnikovo Offensive 12 December 1942 - 31 December 1942

Middle Don Offensive (Operation Little Saturn) 16 December 1942 - 30 December 1942

Tatsinskaya Raid

Operation Koltso (Operation Ring) 10 January 1943 - 2 February 1943

• Rzhev-Sychevka Strategic Offensive (Operation Mars) 25 November 1942 - 20 December 1942

Sychevka Offensive 24 November 1942 - 14 December 1942

Belyi Offensive 25 November 1942 - 16 December 1942

Luchesa Offensive 25 November 1942 - 11 December 1942

Molodoi Tud Offensive 25 November 1942 - 23 December 1942

Velikie-Luki Offensive 24 November 1942 - 20 January 1943

• North Caucasian Strategic Offensive 1 January 1943 - 4 February 1943

Salsk-Rostov Offensive 1 January 1943 - 4 February 1943

Mozdok-Stavropol Offensive 1 January 1943 - 24 January 1943

Novorossiysk-Maikop Offensive 11 January 1943 - 4 February 1943

Tikhoretsk-Eisk Offensive 24 January 1943 - 4 February 1943

• Axis Defence of the Kuban Bridgeheads
• Operation Iskra (Operation Spark, Breaking of the Leningrad Blockade) 12 January 1943 - 30 January 1943

Krasnoborsko-Smerdynskaya offensive

Battle of Krasny Bor

• Voronezh-Kharkov Strategic Offensive 13 January 1943 - 3 March 1943

Ostrogozhsk-Rossosh Offensive 13 January 1943 - 27 January 1943

Voronezh-Kastornoye Offensive 24 January 1943 - 2 February 1943

Voroshilovgrad Offensive (Operation Skachok)^[1] 29 January 1943 - 18 February 1943

Kharkov Offensive (Operation Zvezda) 2 February 1943 - 3 March 1943

Orel (Maloarkhangelsk) Offensive 5 February 1943 - 28 February 1943

Lvov Offensive 15 February 1943 - 1 March 1943

• Donbass Mariupol Offensive 16 February 1943 - 23 February 1943
• Krasnodar Offensive 9 February 1943 - 24 May 1943
• Demyansk Offensive (Operation Pol'arnaya Zvezda) 15 February 1943 - 28 February 1943
• German Operation Büffel
• Rzhev-Vyaz'ma Offensive (Operation Jupiter) 2 March 1943 - 31 March 1943
• Kharkov Defensive 4 March 1943 - 25 March 1943
• 1st Taman Offensive 4 April 1943 - 10 May 1943

2nd Taman Offensive 26 May 1943 - 22 August 1944

Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1943 (1 July - 31 December)

• Kursk Strategic Defensive 5 July 1943 - 23 July 1943

Orel-Kursk Defensive 5 July 1943 - 11 July 1943

Belgorod-Kursk Defensive 5 July 1943 - 23 July 1943

• Orel Strategic Offensive (Operation Kutuzov) 12 July 1943 - 18 August 1943

Volkhov-Orel Offensive 12 July 1943 - 18 August 1943

Kromyv-Orel Offensive 15 July 1943 - 18 August 1943

• Donbass Strategic Offensive (July 1943) 17 July 1943 - 2 August 1943

Izyum-Barvenkovo Offensive 17 July 1943 - 27 July 1943

Mius Offensive 17 July 1943 - 2 August 1943

• 1st Mga Offensive 22 July 1943 - 22 August 1943
• Belgorod-Khar'kov Strategic Offensive (Operation Rumyantsev) 3 August 1943 - 23 August 1943

Belgorod-Bogodukhov Offensive 3 August 1943 - 23 August 1943

Belgorod-Kharkov Offensive 3 August 1943 - 23 August 1943

Zmiez Offensive 12 August 1943 - 23 August 1943

• Smolensk Strategic Offensive (Operation Surorov) 7 August 1943 - 2 October 1943

Spas-Demensk Offensive 7 August 1943 - 20 August 1943

Dukhovshchina-Demidov Offensive 1 Stage 13 August 1943 - 18 August 1943

Yelnia-Dorogobuzh Offensive 28 August 1943 - 6 September 1943

Dukhovshchina-Demidov Offensive 2 Stage 14 September 1943 - 2 October 1943

Smolensk-Roslavl Offensive 15 September 1943 - 2 October 1943

Bryansk Offensive 17 August 1943 - 3 October 1943

• Donbass Strategic Offensive (August 1943) 13 August 1943 - 22 September 1943

Barvenkovo-Pavlograd Offensive 13 August 1943 - 22 September 1943

Mius-Mariupol Offensive 18 August 1943 - 22 September 1943

• Chernigov-Poltava Strategic Offensive 26 August 1943 - 30 September 1943

Chernigov-Pripyet Offensive 26 August 1943 - 30 September 1943

Sumy-Pryluky Offensive 26 August 1943 - 30 September 1943

Poltava-Kremenchug Offensive 26 August 1943 - 30 September 1943

• Novorossiysk-Taman Strategic Offensive 10 September 1943 - 9 October 1943

Novorossiysk Amphibious 10 September 1943 - 16 September 1943

Taman Offensive (1943) 10 September 1943 - 9 October 1943

• 2nd Mga Offensive 15 September 1943 - 18 September 1943
• Concert (operation) (partisan offensive in support of Operation Surorov) 19 September 1943
• Lower Dnieper Offensive 26 September 1943 - 20 December 1943

Axis Defence of the Panther-Wotan Line

Kremenchug Offensive 26 September 1943 - 10 October 1943

Melitopol Offensive 26 September 1943 - 5 November 1943

Zaporizhia Offensive 10 October 1943 - 14 October 1943

Kremenchug-Pyatikhatki Offensive 15 October 1943 - 3 November 1943

Dnepropetrovsk Offensive 23 October 1943 - 23 December 1943

Krivoi Rog Offensive 14 November 1943 - 21 November 1943

Apostolovo Offensive 14 November 1943 - 23 December 1943

Nikopol Offensive 14 November 1943 - 31 December 1943

Aleksandriia-Znamenka Offensive 22 November 1943 - 9 December 1943

Krivoi Rog Offensive 10 December 1943 - 19 December 1943

• Kiev Strategic Offensive (October 1943) 1 October 1943 - 24 October 1943

Chernobyl-Radomysl Offensive 1 October 1943 - 4 October 1943

Chernobyl-Gornostaipol Defensive 3 October 1943 - 8 October 1943

Lyutezh Offensive 11 October 1943 - 24 October 1943

1st Bukrin Offensive 12 October 1943 - 15 October 1943

2nd Bukrin Offensive 21 October 1943 - 24 October 1943

• Byelorussian Strategic Offensive (1943) 3 October 1943 - 31 December 1943

Gomelsko-Rechitskaia Offensive 30 September 1943 - 30 October 1943

Nevel Offensive 3 October 1943 - 12 October 1943

1st Orsha Offensive 3 October 1943 - 26 October 1943

Vitebsk (Riga) Offensive 18 October 1943 - 30 October 1943

Idritsa Offensive 18 October 1943 - 30 October 1943

Pskov Offensive 18 October 1943 - 30 October 1943

Pololsk-Vitebsk Offensive 2 November 1943 - 21 November 1943

Pustoshka-Idritsa Offensive 2 November 1943 - 21 November 1943

Gomelsko-Rechitskaia Offensive 10 November 1943 - 30 November 1943

2nd Orsha Offensive 14 November 1943 - 5 December 1943

Novyi Bykhov-Propoisk Offensive 22 November 1943 - 30 November 1943

Kalinkovichi Offensive 8 December 1943 - 11 December 1943

Gorodok Offensive 13 December 1943 - 31 December 1943

Idritsa-Opochka Offensive 16 December 1943 - 15 January 1944

Kalinkovichi Defensive 20 December 1943 - 27 December 1943

• Kerch-Eltigen 31 October 1943 - 11 December 1943
• Kiev Strategic Offensive (November 1943) 3 November 1943 - 13 November 1943
• Kiev Strategic Defensive (1943) 13 November 1943 - 22 December 1943

3. Third Period of the Great Patriotic War (1 January 1944 - 9 May 1945)

Winter Spring Campaign of 1944 (1 January - 31 May)

• Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive 24 December 1943 - 17 April 1944

Zhitomir–Berdichev Offensive 24 December 1943 - 14 January 1944

Kirograd Offensive 5 January 1944 - 16 January 1944

Korsun–Shevchenkovsky Offensive 24 January 1944 - 17 February 1944

German Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket

Rovno-Lutsk Offensive 1 Stage 27 January 1944 - 11 February 1944

Nikopol-Krivoi Rog Offensive 2 Stage 30 January 1944 - 29 February 1944

Proskurov-Chernovtsy Offensive 4 March 1944 - 17 April 1944

Uman-Botoshany Offensive 5 March 1944 - 17 April 1944

Bereznegovatoye-Snigirevka Offensive 6 March 1944 - 18 March 1944

Polesskoe Offensive 15 March 1944 - 5 April 1944

Odessa Offensive 26 March 1944 - 14 April 1944

• Kalinkovichi-Mozyr Offensive 8 January 1944 - 30 January 1944
• Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive 14 January 1944 - 1 March 1944

Krasnoye Selo–Ropsha Offensive 14 January 1944 - 30 January 1944

Novgorod-Luga Offensive 14 January 1944 - 15 February 1944

Kingisepp–Gdov Offensive 1 February 1944 - 1 March 1944

Staraia Russa-Novorzhev Offensive 18 February 1944 - 1 March 1944

• German: Battle of Narva 2 February - 10 August 1944

Battle for Narva Bridgehead 2 February - 26 July 1944

• Narva Offensive (15–28 February 1944)
• Rogachev-Zhlobin Offensive 21 February 1944 - 26 February 1944
• Narva Offensive (1–4 March 1944)
• Narva Offensive (18–24 March 1944)
• Crimean Strategic Offensive 8 April 1944 - 12 May 1944

Perekop-Sevastopol Offensive 8 April 1944 - 12 May 1944

Kerch-Sevastopol Offensive 11 April 1944 - 12 May 1944

• First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive 8 April - 6 June 1944

Summer Autumn Campaign of 1944 (1 June - 31 December)

• Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive 10 June 1944 - 9 August 1944

Vyborg Offensive 10 June 1944 - 15 July 1944

Svir–Petrozavodsk Offensive 21 June 1944 - 9 August 1944

Tuloksinskaia Landing Offensive 23 June 1944 - 27 June 1944

• Byelorussian Strategic Offensive (1944) (Operation Bagration) 23 June 1944 - 29 August 1944

Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive 23 June 1944 - 28 June 1944

Mogilev Offensive 23 June 1944 - 28 June 1944

Bobruysk Offensive 24 June 1944 - 29 June 1944

Polotsk Offensive 29 June 1944 - 4 July 1944

Minsk Offensive 29 June 1944 - 4 July 1944

Vilnius Offensive 5 July 1944 - 20 July 1944

Šiauliai Offensive 5 July 1944 - 31 July 1944

Belostock Offensive 5 July 1944 - 27 July 1944

Lublin–Brest Offensive 18 July 1944 - 2 August 1944

Battle of Radzymin (1944)

Kaunas Offensive 28 July 1944 - 28 August 1944

Osovets Offensive 6 August 1944 - 14 August 1944

• Rezhitsa-Dvinsk Offensive 10 July 1944 - 27 July 1944
• Pskov-Ostov Offensive 11 July 1944 - 31 July 1944
• German - Operation Doppelkopf 16 August 1944 – 27 August 1944
• Lvov-Sandomierz Strategic Offensive 13 July 1944 – 29 August 1944

Lvov Offensive 13 July 1944 - 27 July 1944

Stanislav Offensive 13 July 1944 - 27 July 1944

Sandomierz Offensive 28 July 1944 - 29 August 1944

• Narva Offensive 24 – 30 July 1944
• German: Battle of Tannenberg Line 26 July – 10 August 1944
• Madona Offensive 1 August 1944 - 28 August 1944
• Tartu Offensive 10 August - 6 September 1944
• Jassy-Kishinev Strategic Offensive 20 August 1944 - 29 August 1944

Yassi-Focsani Offensive 20 August 1944 - 29 August 1944

Kishinev-Izmail Offensive 20 August 1944 - 29 August 1944

• East Carpathian Strategic Offensive 8 September 1944 - 28 September 1944

Carpathian-Dukla Offensive 8 September 1944 - 28 September 1944

Carpathian-Uzhgorod Offensive 9 September 1944 - 28 September 1944

• Baltic Offensive 14 September 1944 - 24 November 1944

Riga Offensive 14 September 1944 - 24 October 1944

Tallinn Offensive 17 September 1944 - 26 September 1944

Moonsund Landing 5 October 1944 - 22 October 1944

Memel Offensive 27 September 1944 - 24 November 1944

• Courland Pocket 9 October 1944 - 8 May 1945
• Belgrade Offensive 14 September 1944 - 24 November 1944
• Debrecen Offensive 6 October 1944 - 28 October 1944
• Petsamo-Kirkenes Strategic Offensive 7 October 1944 - 29 October 1944
• Goldap-Gumbinnen Offensive 16 October 1944 - 30 October 1944
• Budapest Strategic Offensive 29 October 1944 - 13 February 1945

Kechkemet-Budapest Offensive 29 October 1944 - 10 December 1944

Szolnok-Budapest Offensive 29 October 1944 - 10 December 1944

Nyiregyhaza-Miskolc Offensive 1 November 1944 - 31 December 1944

Esztergom-Komarno Offensive 20 December 1944 - 15 January 1945

Szekesfehervar-Esztergom Offensive 20 December 1944 - 13 February 1945

Assault on Budapest 27 December 1944 - 13 February 1945

Campaign in Europe 1945 (1 January - 9 May)

• Vistula-Oder Strategic Offensive 12 January 1945 - 3 February 1945

Warsaw-Poznan Offensive 14 January 1945 - 3 February 1945

Sandomierz–Silesian Offensive 12 January 1945 - 3 February 1945

• Western Carpathian Strategic Offensive 12 January 1945 - 18 February 1945

Kosice-Poprad Offensive 12 January 1945 - 28 January 1945

Bel'sk Offensive 29 January 1945 -18 February 1945

Pleshevets-Breznovsk Offensive 12 January 1945 - 18 February 1945

• East Prussian Strategic Offensive 13 January 1945 - 25 April 1945

Insterburg-Königsberg Offensive 14 January 1945 - 26 January 1945

Mlawo-Elbing Offensive 14 January 1945 - 26 January 1945

Rastenburg-Heilsberg Offensive 27 January 1945 - 12 February 1945

Braunsberg Offensive 13 March 1945 - 22 March 1945

German Heiligenbeil Pocket

Königsberg Offensive 6 April 1945 - 9 April 1945

Zemland Offensive 13 April 1945 - 25 April 1945

• Lower Silesian Offensive 8 February 1945 - 24 February 1945

German Siege of Breslau (From 13 February to 6 May 1945)

• East Pomeranian Strategic Offensive 10 February 1945 - 6 March 1945

Chojnice-Koeslin Offensive 10 February 1945 - 6 March 1945

Danzig Offensive 7 March 1945 - 31 March 1945

Arnswalde-Kolberg Offensive 1 March 1945 - 18 March 1945

Altdamm Offensive 18 March 1945 - 4 April 1945

• German Lake Balaton counteroffensive Operation Frühlingserwachen
• Balaton Defensive 6 March 1945 - 15 March 1945

Bulgarian Battle of Drava

• Moravian-Ostrava Offensive 10 March 1945 - 5 May 1945
• Vienna Offensive 13 March 1945 - 15 April 1945

D'ersk Offensive 13 March 1945 - 4 April 1945

Veszprem Offensive 16 March 1945 - 25 March 1945

Sopron-Baden Offensive 26 March 1945 - 4 April 1945

Nagykanizsa–Körmend Offensive 26 March 1945 - 15 April 1945

Assault on Vienna 4 April 1945 - 13 April 1945

• Upper-Silesian Offensive 15 March 1945 - 31 March 1945
• Bratislava-Brno Offensive 25 March 1945 - 5 May 1945
• Berlin Strategic Offensive 16 April 1945 - 8 May 1945

German Defence of the Oder-Neisse Line

Settin-Rostock Offensive 16 April 1945 - 8 May 1945

German Defense of Schwedt Bridgehead 1 February 1945 - 3 March 1945

Seelow-Berlin Offensive 16 April 1945 - 2 May 1945

Battle of Halbe (Russian: Хальбский "котел", Halbe cauldron) 24 April to 1 May 1945

Cottbus-Potsdam Offensive

Spremberg-Torgau Offensive 16 April 1945 - 5 May 1945

Battle of Bautzen

Brandenberg-Ratenow Offensive 3 May 1945 - 8 May 1945

• Prague Offensive 6 May 1945 -11 May 1945

Dresden-Prague Offensive 6 May 1945 - 11 May 1945

Sudeten Offensive 6 May 1945 - 11 May 1945

Olomout Offensive 6 May 1945 - 9 May 1945

Jihlavo-Benesov Offensive 6 May 1945 - 11 May 1945

Sources and references

1. ^ Although often given in Western sources as gallop (e.g. Glantz in When Titans Clashed), the correct translation is hurdle jump as the word for gallop in Russian is gallop

• Feskov V.I., Kalashnikov K.A., Golikov V.I. The Red Army in the victories and defeats: years 1941-1945 - Tomsk: Tomsk university publishing, 2001. pp. 24–29.

See also

• List of military operations on the Eastern Front of World War II

External links

• Multimedia map of the Great War