Riga Offensive

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World War II Eastern Front campaign military offensive

The Riga Offensive was a major World War II Soviet military campaign in 1944 that drove German forces out of Riga and contributed to isolating them in the Courland Pocket.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Riga Offensive canonical	3
Riga Offensive (1944)	2

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II Eastern Front campaign ⓘ military offensive ⓘ
belligerent	Nazi Germany ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ
campaign	Baltic campaigns of 1944 NERFINISHED ⓘ
cityCaptured	Riga NERFINISHED ⓘ
combatant	Red Army NERFINISHED ⓘ Wehrmacht NERFINISHED ⓘ
commander	Andrey Yeryomenko NERFINISHED ⓘ Ivan Bagramyan NERFINISHED ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ
countryInvolved	Latvian SSR NERFINISHED ⓘ
dateOfCaptureOfRiga	1944-10-13 ⓘ
endDate	1944-10-24 ⓘ
followedBy	Courland Pocket operations ⓘ
front	2nd Baltic Front NERFINISHED ⓘ 3rd Baltic Front NERFINISHED ⓘ
geopoliticalConsequence	consolidation of Soviet power in the Baltic States ⓘ restoration of Soviet control over Riga ⓘ
GermanArmyGroup	Army Group North NERFINISHED ⓘ
GermanArmyGroupRenamed	Army Group Courland NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalPeriod	late stages of World War II ⓘ
location	Baltic region ⓘ Latvia NERFINISHED ⓘ Riga NERFINISHED ⓘ
objective	capture of Riga ⓘ cut off Army Group North from East Prussia ⓘ
opposingCommander	Carl Hilpert NERFINISHED ⓘ Ferdinand Schörner NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Model NERFINISHED ⓘ
opposingForce	Army Group North NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Eastern Front of World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ
precededBy	Baltic Offensive NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedEvent	Baltic Offensive NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Memel NERFINISHED ⓘ Courland Pocket NERFINISHED ⓘ
result	German forces expelled from Riga ⓘ German forces isolated in Courland Pocket ⓘ Soviet victory ⓘ
SovietFormation	1st Baltic Front NERFINISHED ⓘ 2nd Baltic Front NERFINISHED ⓘ 3rd Baltic Front NERFINISHED ⓘ
startDate	1944-09-14 ⓘ
strategicEffect	secured Baltic coastline for the Soviet Union ⓘ severed German land connection to Army Group North ⓘ
theater	Baltic theater of World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ
typeOfOperation	combined arms offensive ⓘ
year	1944 ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Courland Pocket → relatedOperation → Riga Offensive ⓘ

Šiauliai offensive → followedBy → Riga Offensive ⓘ

this entity surface form: Riga Offensive (1944)

Baltic Offensive → subOperation → Riga Offensive ⓘ

2nd Baltic Front → participatedIn → Riga Offensive ⓘ

3rd Baltic Front → operationParticipated → Riga Offensive ⓘ

this entity surface form: Riga Offensive (1944)