Lublin–Brest Offensive

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The Lublin–Brest Offensive was a major 1944 Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in World War II that pushed German forces westward through eastern Poland and Belarus, helping pave the way for the liberation of Warsaw and the advance into central Europe.

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instanceOf World War II Eastern Front operation
military offensive
aimedAt destroying German Army Group Centre formations
securing bridgeheads on the Vistula River
alsoKnownAs Lublin–Brest Offensive
surface form: Lublin–Brest Operation
belligerent Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
capturedCity Brest (Belarus)
surface form: Brest

Chełm
Lublin
Siedlce
combatant Red Army
Wehrmacht
commandedBy Ivan Chernyakhovsky
Konstantin Rokossovsky
conductedBy Red Army
surface form: Soviet Red Army
conflict World War II
countryInvolved Germany
Soviet Union
endDate 1944-08-02
followedBy Warsaw–Praga offensive
surface form: Warsaw–Praga Offensive
frontlineShift German forces pushed westward
historicalRegion Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
surface form: Byelorussian SSR

eastern Poland during German occupation
involvedUnit Army Group Centre
surface form: German Army Group Centre

Army Group North
surface form: German Army Group North Ukraine

1st Belorussian Front
surface form: Soviet 1st Belorussian Front

2nd Belorussian Front
surface form: Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front
location Belarus
Eastern Front
eastern Poland
objective advance toward Warsaw
liberate eastern Poland
push German forces westward
opposingCommander Josef Harpe
Walter Model
partOf Operation Bagration
Soviet summer offensive of 1944
precededBy Belostok Offensive
result Soviet victory
startDate 1944-07-18
strategicEffect breach of German defensive lines in eastern Poland
facilitated Soviet advance into central Europe
paved way for liberation of Warsaw
theatre Eastern Front
surface form: Eastern Front of World War II
timePeriod August 1944
July 1944

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1st Polish Army engagedInBattle Lublin–Brest Offensive
1st Belorussian Front participatedIn Lublin–Brest Offensive
Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive precededBy Lublin–Brest Offensive
this entity surface form: Kovel–Lublin Offensive
8th Guards Army participatedIn Lublin–Brest Offensive
Lublin–Brest Offensive alsoKnownAs Lublin–Brest Offensive
this entity surface form: Lublin–Brest Operation
Warsaw–Praga offensive partOf Lublin–Brest Offensive
this entity surface form: Lublin–Brest offensive
Warsaw–Praga offensive precededBy Lublin–Brest Offensive
this entity surface form: Lublin–Brest offensive
Soviet summer offensive of 1944 hasPart Lublin–Brest Offensive
World War II military operations in Poland hasPart Lublin–Brest Offensive
69th Army participatedIn Lublin–Brest Offensive
47th Army (Soviet Union) participatedIn Lublin–Brest Offensive
70th Army (Soviet Union) participatedIn Lublin–Brest Offensive
this entity surface form: Lublin–Brest offensive
Belostok Offensive followedBy Lublin–Brest Offensive
Belorussian strategic offensive operation followedBy Lublin–Brest Offensive
this entity surface form: Lublin–Brest offensive