43rd Army

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The 43rd Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II, participating in major operations including the advance through Belarus and into East Prussia.

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43rd Army canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Red Army formation
Soviet military unit
field army
areaOfOperations Baltic states
surface form: Baltic States

Belarus
East Prussia
Kaliningrad Oblast
surface form: Kaliningrad region
belligerent Allies of World War II
branch Ground forces
composition artillery units
engineer units
rifle corps
rifle divisions
tank and self‑propelled gun units
conflict World War II
surface form: Great Patriotic War

World War II
surface form: Second World War
country Soviet Union
disbandedInYear 1946
formedFrom Soviet Central Front
surface form: Central Front (Soviet) headquarters elements
formedInYear 1941
garrisonAfterWar Kaliningrad Oblast
notableAction advanced through Belarus during Operation Bagration
assaulted German defensive positions in East Prussia
participated in encirclement and destruction of German forces near Vitebsk
took part in cutting off German Army Group North from East Prussia
notableCommander Afanasy Pavlantyevich Beloborodov
Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko
Konstantin Dmitrievich Golubev
Vasily Nikolaevich Yushkevich
opposed Army Group Centre
surface form: Army Group Center

Army Group North
Wehrmacht
participatedIn Battle of Königsberg
Battle of Smolensk (1941)
Operation Bagration
surface form: Belorussian offensive (Operation Bagration)

East Prussian Offensive
surface form: East Prussian offensive

Memel offensive
Operation Suvorov (Smolensk offensive, 1943)
Polotsk offensive
Rzhev–Vyazma strategic operations
surface form: Rzhev–Vyazma operations

Vitebsk–Orsha offensive
Vyazma defensive operation (1941)
Šiauliai offensive
partOf Red Army
subordinateTo 1st Baltic Front
3rd Belorussian Front
Kalinin Front
Western Front (Red Army)
surface form: Western Front (Soviet)
successorUnit 11th Guards Army
theater Eastern Front

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Soviet Western Front (Red Army formation) subordinateUnit 43rd Army
subject surface form: Soviet Western Front