Belorussian strategic offensive operation

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Soviet strategic offensive operation World War II military operation military offensive

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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Label Occurrences
Operation Bagration 6
Belorussian strategic offensive operation canonical 3
Belorussian Offensive 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet strategic offensive operation ⓘ
World War II military operation ⓘ
military offensive ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Belorussian strategic offensive operation ⓘ
surface form: Belarusian strategic offensive operation

Operation Bagration ⓘ
belligerent Nazi Germany ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ
capturedCity Babruysk ⓘ
surface form: Bobruisk

Brest (Belarus) ⓘ
surface form: Brest

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 summer offensive of 1944 ⓘ
surface form: Soviet 1944 summer offensives
conflict World War II ⓘ
dateEnd 1944-08-19 ⓘ
dateStart 1944-06-22 ⓘ
followedBy Lublin–Brest Offensive ⓘ
surface form: Lublin–Brest offensive

Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive ⓘ
surface form: Lvov–Sandomierz offensive
frontInvolved 1st Baltic Front ⓘ
1st Belorussian Front ⓘ
2nd Belorussian Front ⓘ
3rd Belorussian Front ⓘ
location Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic ⓘ
surface form: Belorussian SSR

Eastern Poland ⓘ
surface form: 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 High Command ⓘ
surface form: Soviet Stavka
precededBy Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive ⓘ
surface form: 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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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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