Operation Bagration

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Soviet strategic offensive World War II military operation military offensive

Operation Bagration was a massive 1944 Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front that destroyed much of Germany’s Army Group Centre and marked a decisive turning point in World War II.

Aliases (5)

Belarusian strategic offensive operation ×1
Belorussian strategic offensive operation ×1
Operation Bagration (as opposing force) ×1
Soviet Operation Bagration ×1
Soviet summer offensives of 1944 ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Soviet strategic offensive → World War II military operation → military offensive →
aimedAt	encirclement of German forces in Belorussia → recapture of Minsk →
belligerent	Nazi Germany → Soviet Union →
codename	Operation Bagration →
commander	Aleksandr Vasilevsky → Georgy Zhukov → Ivan Chernyakhovsky → Konstantin Rokossovsky →
conflict	World War II →
coordinatedWith	Allied Normandy landings → Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive →
country	Soviet Union →
date	summer 1944 →
endDate	1944-08-19 →
followedBy	East Prussian Offensive → Vistula–Oder Offensive →
forceType	multi-front offensive →
historicalSignificance	decisive turning point on the Eastern Front in 1944 → one of the largest operations in World War II by scale →
involvedUnit	1st Baltic Front → 1st Belorussian Front → 2nd Belorussian Front → 3rd Belorussian Front →
location	Belorussian SSR → eastern Poland → eastern front of Europe →
namedAfter	Pyotr Bagration →
objective	destruction of German Army Group Centre → liberation of Belorussia →
opponent	Army Group Centre →
opposingCommander	Ernst Busch → Georg-Hans Reinhardt → Hans Jordan → Walter Model →
partOf	Eastern Front of World War II → Soviet summer offensives of 1944 →
precededBy	Battle of Kursk →
result	decisive Soviet victory →
startDate	1944-06-22 →
strategicEffect	collapse of German Army Group Centre → major shift of Eastern Front westward → opening the way to Poland and East Prussia for the Red Army →
theatre	Eastern Front →

Referenced by (32)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
1st Baltic Front ("Belarusian strategic offensive operation") → 1st Baltic Front → 2nd Belorussian Front → 3rd Belorussian Front → 3rd Belorussian Front ("Belorussian strategic offensive operation") → Army Group Centre →	tookPartIn
1st Belorussian Front → 4th Army → Ernst Busch → Hans Jordan → Walther Model →	participatedIn
9th Army → Axis forces on the Eastern Front ("Operation Bagration (as opposing force)") → Soviet Western Front →	engagedIn
Soviet summer offensive of 1944 → World War II →	hasPart
Lublin–Brest Offensive → Operation Bagration ("Soviet summer offensives of 1944") →	partOf
Soviet deep operations doctrine →	appliedInOperation
Operation Bagration →	codename
Eastern Front (World War II) →	conflict
3rd Panzer Army →	engagement
Soviet Red Army advance from the east →	keyBattle
Soviet-German Front →	majorOperation
9th Army (Wehrmacht) →	notableEngagement
Hans Jordan →	notableEvent
Soviet Air Forces →	notableOperation
Konstantin Rokossovsky →	notableWork
Ivan Chernyakhovsky →	participantIn
Baltic offensive (1944) →	precededBy
Home Army offensive operations in Vilnius region ("Soviet Operation Bagration") →	relatedEvent
Eastern Front (World War II) →	turningPoint