Crimean Strategic Offensive Operation

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Crimean Strategic Offensive Operation was a major World War II Soviet campaign in 1944 to liberate the Crimean Peninsula from German and Romanian forces.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II Eastern Front campaign
military offensive
aimedAt restoring Soviet control over Black Sea ports in Crimea
securing Soviet southern flank
alsoKnownAs Crimean offensive (1944)
surface form: Crimean Offensive

Crimean offensive (1944)
surface form: Crimean Offensive Operation
axisForcesEvacuatedFrom Sevastopol
axisForcesEvacuationEndDate 1944-05-12
battle World War II battles on the Kerch Peninsula
surface form: Assault on Kerch Peninsula (1944)

assault on Perekop Isthmus
surface form: Battle of Perekop

Battle of Sevastopol (1944)
belligerent Red Army
Romanian Land Forces
surface form: Romanian Army

Wehrmacht
category Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War
Military operations of World War II involving Germany
Military operations of World War II involving Romania
Military operations of World War II involving the Soviet Union
commander Andrei Yeremenko NERFINISHED
Erwin Jaenecke
Fyodor Tolbukhin
Petre Dumitrescu
conflict World War II
countryInvolved Kingdom of Romania
Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
dateLiberationOfSevastopol 1944-05-09
endDate 1944-05-12
followedBy liberation of Sevastopol in May 1944
frontlineCommanderSide German Army Group A elements
4th Ukrainian Front
surface form: Soviet 4th Ukrainian Front
historicalPeriod 1944 in Ukraine
1944 in the Soviet Union
location Crimea
Crimea
surface form: Crimean Peninsula
militaryUnitInvolved 4th Ukrainian Front
Soviet Black Sea Fleet
surface form: Black Sea Fleet

German 17th Army
Romanian 3rd Army
surface form: Romanian 3rd Army units

Separate Coastal Army
objective destruction of German 17th Army in Crimea
liberation of Crimea from Axis forces
opponent German 17th Army
Romanian 3rd Army units
partOf Eastern Front of World War II
precededBy Kerch–Eltigen Operation (1943)
surface form: Kerch–Eltigen Operation
result Soviet victory
startDate 1944-04-08
strategicDirection Southern strategic direction of Red Army
theater Black Sea campaigns
surface form: Black Sea theater of World War II

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Crimean offensive (1944) alsoKnownAs Crimean Strategic Offensive Operation
Kerch–Eltigen Operation (1943) partOf Crimean Strategic Offensive Operation
this entity surface form: Crimean campaign of 1943–1944
Battle of Sevastopol (1944) operationName Crimean Strategic Offensive Operation
this entity surface form: Sevastopol Offensive Operation