Operation Suvorov

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Operation Suvorov was a major 1943 Soviet offensive during World War II aimed at recapturing the city of Smolensk from German forces and weakening the German Army Group Center.

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Label Occurrences
Operation Suvorov canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet offensive
military operation
aimedAt recapture of Smolensk
weakening German Army Group Centre
alsoKnownAs Smolensk Operation NERFINISHED
Smolensk offensive operation NERFINISHED
belligerent Red Army
Wehrmacht
casualties heavy on both sides
commander Andrei Yeremenko NERFINISHED
Günther von Kluge NERFINISHED
Maksim Purkayev NERFINISHED
Vasily Sokolovsky NERFINISHED
Walter Model NERFINISHED
conflict World War II
country Soviet Union
endDate 1943-10-02
followedBy Belorussian offensive operations of 1944 NERFINISHED
front Central sector of Eastern Front
involvedUnit 2nd Panzer Army (Wehrmacht) NERFINISHED
4th Army (Wehrmacht) NERFINISHED
9th Army (Wehrmacht) NERFINISHED
Bryansk Front (Red Army) NERFINISHED
Kalinin Front (Red Army) NERFINISHED
Western Front (Red Army) NERFINISHED
location Bryansk Oblast NERFINISHED
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic NERFINISHED
Smolensk Oblast NERFINISHED
militaryTheater European theatre of World War II NERFINISHED
namedAfter Alexander Suvorov NERFINISHED
objective breakthrough of German defensive lines near Smolensk
push German forces westward from central Russia
opponent Army Group Centre NERFINISHED
Nazi Germany
partOf Eastern Front of World War II NERFINISHED
Soviet summer–autumn campaign of 1943 NERFINISHED
precededBy Battle of Kursk NERFINISHED
result German retreat from Smolensk region
Soviet victory
liberation of Smolensk
startDate 1943-08-07
strategicEffect facilitated later Soviet offensives into Belarus
reduction of German salient around Smolensk
timePeriod 1943
typeOfAttack combined arms offensive

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Western Front (Red Army) engagedIn Operation Suvorov
33rd Army engagement Operation Suvorov