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 Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Soviet commander of the First Ukrainian Front, was mortally wounded in an ambush.
The division defended the Ukrainian population from forced deportations to the USSR in 1945 and 1946.
Wisła, in which the remaining Ukrainian population was deported by force to other parts of Poland.
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/U/K/UkrainianInsurgentArmy.htm   (1412 words)

  
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To the South, 4th Ukrainian Front joins the offensive against Nikopol, threatening to surround the German 6th Army defending the area.
To the south, 3rd Ukrainian Front captures Nikopol as the Germans beat a hasty retreat from the trap.
In the south, 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts begin regrouping for fresh offensives as the Germans pull away from their exposed positions created from the break-in attempt.
www.bartcop.com /arc4402.htm   (2776 words)

  
 Ukrainian News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
UKRAINIAN NEWS is published four times monthly in Ukrainian and English by the Ukrainian Press Agency in Kyiv, a politically independent research and news service.
The Ukrainian side was accused of the armed seizure of the 318th unit of the Black Sea Fleet vessels that are in mothballs in Odessa port.
Then the Ukrainian marines, that came to Odessa to take part in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Odessa liberation from the Nazis, were ordered to stop the incident.
www.friends-partners.org /oldfriends/news/ukrainian/940418.html   (5098 words)

  
 The first Victory parade - reference - Pravda.Ru
Troops were assigned to composite regiments representing each front fighting in the end of the war, namely 1st Karelian; Leningrad; 1st Baltic; 1st, 2nd, 3rd Byelorussian; 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts, as well as to regiments representing the Soviet Navy, Air Force and People's Commissariat /Ministry/ for the Defence.
The left flank was assigned to the 4th Ukrainian Front and composite regiments representing the Soviet Navy and the Moscow Garrison.
Front and Navy regiments were followed by a column of Soviet soldiers carrying 200 pointed down to the ground banners of Fascist units defeated by the Soviet Army on the fields of battle.
english.pravda.ru /society/2002/06/24/30962.html   (974 words)

  
 Battle of the Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
General Tolbukhin (4th Ukrainian Front) took Nikopol on the east bend of the Dniepr on 8 February and then he moved south to take the Crimea.
In early March Vatutin was fatally wounded by partisans and Marshal Zhukov took command of the 1st Ukrainian Front, and launched the Russian spring offensive from Shepetovka despite the mud, because of his improved transport: he now had US trucks.
This front was stable east of Lvov from April till July.
www.expage.com /wwiieast20   (602 words)

  
 World War 2 Timelines 1939-1945 - Eastern Europe 1944 - Worldwar-2.net
Koniev’s 2nd Ukrainian Front extends the Russian general offensive in temperatures of -20°C. The Red Army crosses the 1939 Polish frontier after a 170-mile advance in just two weeks.
The 2nd Belorussian Front attacks northwest from Vitebsk, the 3rd Belorussian Front attacks West from Psovsk and the Leningrad Front attacks southwest toward Narva.
The 4th Ukrainian Front is inserted in the Russian line in southern Poland and northern Hungary.
www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-in-europe/eastern-europe/eastern-europe-index-1944.htm   (2729 words)

  
 World War 2 Timelines 1939-1945 - Eastern Europe 1945 - Worldwar-2.net
Koniev's 1st Ukrainian Front launches a major winter offensive from its bridgehead across the Vistula at Baranov in southern Poland.
The 2nd Ukrainian front continues its advance into northern Czechoslovakia and establishes a bridgehead across the rivers Morava and Donau (East and Northeast of Vienna).
However, the 1st Belorussian Fronts offensive against Berlin is stalled by tenacious German resistance on the Seelow Heights, 2 miles West of the Oder, with great losses of troops and tanks for the Russians.
www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-in-europe/eastern-europe/eastern-europe-index-1945.htm   (3134 words)

  
 Front (Soviet Army) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Front (фронт) was a major military organization in the Soviet Army, roughly equivalent to an army or army group in British or American military terminology.
Soviet fronts were raised during the Polish-Soviet War, Invasion of Poland (Byelorussian and Ukrainian) and the Second World War.
During the Cold War, fronts and their staffs were integrated with various military districts, or became "Group of Soviet Forces" in a Warsaw Pact nation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Front_(Soviet_Army)   (232 words)

  
 Yeremenko, Andrei Ivanovich (1892 - 1970)
On 1 January 1943, the Stalingrad Front was renamed the Southern Front.
On 26 March 1945, Yeremenko was transferred to the command of the 4th Ukrainian Front, the unit he controlled until the end of the war.
4th Ukrainian was deployed in Eastern Hungary at the time and his subsequent offensive helped capture the rest of Hungary, and paved the way for the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
www.historyofwar.org /articles/people_yeremenko.html   (769 words)

  
 WorldWar2.ro - Last stand in Crimea — 1944   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
On the northern front the main strike was supposed to be executed by the 51st Army of lt. gen.
Zakharov, was supposed to attack on the front in the isthmus and pin down the forces opposing it.
To the east, the front was manned by the Romanian Cavalry Corps, subordinated to the 49th Corps, with the 10th and 19th Infantry Divisions at Karanki, Chiongar and Arabat.
www.worldwar2.ro /operatii/?article=775   (3465 words)

  
 Collect Russia "From Stalingrad to Vienna" Subtitled "Combat Path of the ## Guards Army". Soviet Russian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It was therefore easy to determine with certainty that this is the famed 4th Guards Army, 3rd Ukrainian Front (known as 24th Army of Don Front prior to April 1943).
In January 1943 it was one of the seven armies of the Don Front that took part in the final assault on the German 6th Army isolated in the City of Stalingrad.
In January 1945 4th Guards Army was instrumental in stopping the German thrust aimed at relieving the besieged garrison of Budapest.
collectrussia.com /DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=9876   (416 words)

  
 1945
The 3rd Ukrainian front occupies Radkesburg and the 2nd Ukrainian front attacks in the direction of Brno in Czechoslovakia.
The battle for Berlin escalates as the main breakthrough is made by Konevs 1st Ukrainian front.
Troops of the 4th Ukrainian front capture Moravska Ostrava., while Army Group South and Army Group Centre continue to fight, but only to try and reach the Americans so that they can surrender, but in the main on units of Army Group South manage this.
www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1945eastern.asp   (1940 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Leonid Brezhnev
Later in the year the 18th Army became part of the 1st Ukrainian Front, as the Red Army regained the initiative and advanced westwards through Ukraine.
The Front's senior political commissar was Nikita Khrushchev, who became an important patron of Brezhnev's career.
At the end of the war in Europe Brezhnev was chief political commissar of the 4th Ukrainian Front, which entered Prague after the German surrender.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Leonid_Brezhnev   (2473 words)

  
 Our Victory Day by Day - RIA Novosti project
The troops of the 2nd BELARUSSIAN Front, forcing the DIWENOW Strait north of STETTIN, seized the town of WOLLIN and the settlements of LUSKOW, KORTENTIN, JARMBOW, KODRAM, REBERG, GROSS and KLEIN MOKRATZ, SOLDEMIN.
North of the town of WITTENBERGE, the troops of the front, pursuing the offensive, seized the towns of STERNBERG, LUBZ, PARCHIM, GRABOW and the large settlements of DABEL, DEMEN, GOLDENBOW, RADUN, SPORNITZ, BLIEVENSTORF, ZIRZOW, LENZEN.
The troops of the 4th UKRAINIAN Front, pursuing the offensive in the West Carpathians, took by force the town of WIGSTADTL (WITKOW) and the large settlements of PUSTEJOV, MOSNOV, BRUSPERK, DOMASLAVICE, OSTRAVICE, HORNI BECVA, VELKE KARLOVICE, HOVESY.
eng.9may.ru /eng_inform/m9004254   (280 words)

  
 Antony Beevor
Belorussian Front, was not happy with the ‘level of preliminary investigation’ conducted in the field by both the NKVD and SMERSH.
And agents and saboteurs are moving among them.’ From Karpov and Maj Gen Zubarev chief of NKVD troops rear areas 1st Ukrainian Front to Lieutenant Gen Gorbatyuk chief of main dept of NKVD Troops of guarding the rear areas of the Red Army.
Ukrainian Front had no uniforms, and arrived wearing ‘shoes made of wool and leather’, which led to them being mocked by Red Army soldiers.
www.antonybeevor.com /Berlin/berlincutstwo.htm   (11230 words)

  
 1945 History
The SS Panzer Corps reaches the Danube river at Dunapantele and cuts off the communications of the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front.
German 4th Army is forced into a narrow bridgehead on the Balga Peninsula.
Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front and 1st Belorussian Front make contact at a point South-West of Berlin.
www.russianwarrior.com /1941_Chronology45.htm   (469 words)

  
 Soviet Southern Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This sense of the term is not identical with the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet Front may operate within designated boundaries.
It received additional forces from the (disbanded) Southwestern Front on July 12, 1942 and was formally disbanded on July 28, 1942, with the forces transferred to the North Caucasus Front.
It was renamed the 4th Ukrainian Front on October 20, 1943.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soviet_Southern_Front   (234 words)

  
 Prague Offensive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The assault was carried out by 1st (Ivan Konev), 2nd (Rodion Malinovsky), 4th Ukrainian Fronts (Andrei Yeremenko), as well as the Polish Second Army, the 1st and 4th Romanian Armies and the 1st Czechoslovakian Army Corps, totalling to more than 2,000,000 personnel.
The left flank of the 2nd Ukrainian Front met with troops of the US Third Army (George Patton) in the regions of České Budějovice and Písek, thus completing the encirclement.
Later, 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts met with Americans in the regions of Karlovy Vary and Klatovy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prague_Offensive   (329 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Operation Bagration: The boundaries of the various Ukrainian fronts are difficult to distinguish from the rivers and national boundaries.
The 2nd Ukrainian front has seven hexes for setup, up to and including hexes B-2404, 2505, and 2605.
The 4th Ukrainian front has hexes B-2405, 2406, 2506, 2507, and 2606.
www.grognard.com /errata/greatpat.txt   (376 words)

  
 Boska - documents
It is during this drive North to the Invasion Front, that Das Reich committed two of the worst atrocities of the war in France: the massacres of civilians in the towns of Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane.
Ukrainian Front were closing from north of the Danube towards the Reichsbruecke.
The General Commander of 4th Panzer Division told Boska, to support the withdrawal of his troops and then return with his Panzers to his own Regimental lines, which were then in the area of the Floridsdorfer bridge.
www.dasreich.ca /froom.html   (3631 words)

  
 STIWOT Forum :: Bekijk onderwerp - tankslag rond Drebrecan (Hongarije)
By mid-September 1944, Malinovsky found himself in command of the powerful 2nd Ukrainian Front, consisting of four infantry armies (27th, 53rd, 40th and 7th Guards), the First and Fourth Romanian armies, the 6th Guards Tank Army and two combined mechanized cavalry groups commanded by Generals S.I. Gorshkov and I.A. Pliyev.
Tolbukhin, aided by Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrainian Front, was able to maul the disorganized German units that were fleeing north toward Hungary.
A continuous front in such conditions was out of the question, and a wrong turn at a crossroads during bad weather could immobilize a badly needed unit for several days.
www.tweede-wereldoorlog.nl /forum/viewtopic.php?t=1567   (4703 words)

  
 Our Victory Day by Day - RIA Novosti project
The troops of the front seized the towns of LIBAVA (LIEPAJA), PAVILOSTA, AIZPUTE, SKRUNDA, SALDUS, SABILE, KANDAVA, TUKUMUS.
In Czechoslovakia, the troops of the 4th UKRAINIAN Front seized the towns of SILPERK, MUGLITZ, MORAWSKA TREUBAU, LITOVEL, PROSTEJOV.
Rapidly advancing, the troops of the 2nd UKRAINIAN Front seized in Czechoslovakia the towns of VELKE MEZIRICE, JIHLAVA, BROD, BENESOV, TRZEBICH.
eng.9may.ru /eng_inform/m9004259   (385 words)

  
 Russian, Front, Barbarossa, Kursk, Arctic, Convoys, Smolensk, Kiev, Moscow, Stalingrad, Battle
Along 50-mile fronts to the north and the south of Stalingrad, two large armies broke through the largely Rumanian defenders.
Russian strength was now great enough to attack along other parts of the front as well as in the south.
On the 4th outside Hamburg, German envoys surrendered their forces in Holland, Denmark and northwest Germany to Field Marshal Montgomery.
www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsRussianFront.htm   (4497 words)

  
 Eastern Front (World War II) information information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Eastern Front of World War II was the theatre of war covering the conflict in central and eastern European regions from June 1941 to May 1945.
Stalin's ideological stance and actual policies were no less aggressive: using the occasion of world attention drawn to the Western front, he annexed the three Baltic countries in 1940, thus gaining a place d'arme in case of a possible war with Germany.
Regions closer to the front were managed by military powers of the region, in other areas such as Baltic states annexed by USSR in 1940, Reichscommissariats were established.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)   (9271 words)

  
 1.JmA - NKVD troops in the front line
Similar actions were undertaken in Ukrainian SSR by the notorious 13th Escort Troops NKVD division(with headquarters in Kiev, later in Brovary and Kharkiv), consisting of the 233rd Regiment(Lviv), 227th Regiment(Kiev), 249th Regiment(Odessa), 228th Regiment(Kharkiv), 229th Regiment(Lviv, responsible for the maintenance of Polish POWs since 1939), 237th Regiment(Kishinev) and 154th separate battalion(Chernivtsi).
Aware of the imminent advance of the German spearheads in the Western Ukraine, the units of Ukrainian nationalist paramilitaries began to concentrate in the vicinity of the major cities, to prevent the massacres of the prisoners guarded by the 13th Escort Troops NKVD division.
Maslennikov’s troops broke through the Panther-Line in July 1944, and maintained heavy pressure on the Germans until the front was disbanded on the 16th of October 1944, and it was in July that Maslennikov was awarded the rank of Army General.
www.1jma.dk /articles/1jmaarticlesNKVD.htm   (3356 words)

  
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These “pictures of combat” record the nature and intensity of combat in any given front sector by graphically recording the impact, scope, and often intensity of the fighting through the physical configuration of the front and the intelligence picture of concentrated and identified enemy forces.
The Central Front's Sevsk-Trubchevsk Offensive (25 February-6 March 1943), the Briansk Front's Bolkhov Offensive (22-28 February 1943); and the Western Front's Zhizdra-Orel Offensive (22 February-2 March 1943) The Central and Briansk Fronts' Orel Offensive (7-21 March 1943)
The Kalinin Front's Vitebsk (Riga) Offensive, the Baltic Front's Idritsa Offensive, and the Northwestern Front's Pskov Offensive (18-30 October 1943)
www.tellur.ru /~historia/archive/04-00/glantz.htm   (4107 words)

  
 WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: April
In the East, the 1st Belorussian Front (Zhukov) and the 1st Ukrainian Front (Konev), from their Oder bridgeheads N and S of Frankfurt, launch their final great offensive against Berlin.
In the East, the offensive by the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front against Berlin is stalled at the Seelow Heights 2 miles W of the Oder, with great losses in troops and tanks.
In the East, the Soviet 3rd Belorussian Front (Vassilevsky) captures the port of Pillau 20 miles W of Königsberg, while the 2nd Belorussian Front (Rokossovsky) occupies Stettin at the mouth of the Oder.
www.feldgrau.com /april.html   (2557 words)

  
 WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: March
March 1st, 1943: On the central front in the East, German troops begin the evacuation of the Rshev area.
March 4th, 1944: In the East, the Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front (Konev) begins an offensive against Heeresgruppe Süd (von Manstein).
March 4th, 1945: Units of the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front (Zhukov) establish a new bridgehead across the Oder south of Frankfurt.
www.feldgrau.com /march.html   (2112 words)

  
 ROAD TO VICTORY [THE VOICE OF RUSSIA]
Once the reconnaissance group he was with resolved to thwart a Nazi plan to make a public show of an execution of civilians in one of the Ukrainian villages.
The guerrilla war was on until the joining of forces with the advancing Red Army troops in the early 1945.
After joining forces with the 4th Ukrainian front the group was disbanded.
www.vor.ru /English/Victory/vict_21.html   (2399 words)

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