Soviet 43rd Army

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The Soviet 43rd Army was a Red Army field formation that played a significant role on the Eastern Front in World War II, particularly in major offensives against German forces in East Prussia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf field army
activeDuring Great Patriotic War NERFINISHED
allegiance Workers' and Peasants' Red Army NERFINISHED
branch Ground forces NERFINISHED
conflict World War II
surface form: Second World War
country Soviet Union
engagedAgainst German Army Group Centre NERFINISHED
German Army Group North NERFINISHED
Wehrmacht NERFINISHED
formedIn 1941
frontAssignment 3rd Belorussian Front NERFINISHED
Belorussian Front NERFINISHED
Kalinin Front NERFINISHED
Western Front NERFINISHED
languageOfCommand Russian
militaryBranchOf Soviet Armed Forces NERFINISHED
notableAction advance into East Prussia in 1945
participation in encirclement of German forces near Königsberg
notableCommander Afanasy Pavlantyevich Beloborodov NERFINISHED
Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko NERFINISHED
Konstantin Dmitrievich Golubev NERFINISHED
Vasily Nikolaevich Yushkevich NERFINISHED
notableResult contributed to defeat of German forces in East Prussia
operationalArea Belarus NERFINISHED
East Prussia NERFINISHED
Smolensk region NERFINISHED
participatedIn Battle of Smolensk (1941) NERFINISHED
Belarusian offensive operations NERFINISHED
East Prussian Offensive NERFINISHED
Gumbinnen–Goldap operation NERFINISHED
Insterburg–Königsberg operation NERFINISHED
Operation Suvorov NERFINISHED
Rzhev–Vyazma operations NERFINISHED
Samland offensive NERFINISHED
Smolensk operation (1943) NERFINISHED
Vyazma defensive operations NERFINISHED
partOf Red Army
primaryOpponent Nazi Germany NERFINISHED
role defensive operations in the Smolensk–Vyazma sector
offensive operations against German forces in East Prussia
theatre Eastern Front NERFINISHED
type combined arms army

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Battle of Königsberg attacker Soviet 43rd Army