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Alexander Pokryshkin

Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin (Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Покры́шкин; – 13 November 1985) was a Soviet fighter pilot in World War II, and later a marshal of aviation.

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Army group

An army group is a military organization consisting of several field armies, which is self-sufficient for indefinite periods.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II.

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Battle of Halbe

The Battle of Halbe (Kesselschlacht von Halbe, Хальбский котёл, Halbe pocket) was a battle lasting from April 24 – May 1, 1945 in which the German Ninth Army—under the command of General Theodor Busse—was destroyed as a fighting force by the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin. 1st Ukrainian Front and battle of Halbe are battle of Berlin.

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Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy

The Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy (Корсунь-Шевченковская операция.; Корсунь-Шевченківська операція.), also known as the Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket, was a World War II battle fought from 24 January to 16 February 1944 in the course of the Soviet Dnieper–Carpathian offensive in Ukraine following the Korsun–Shevchenkovsky offensive.

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Battle of Kursk

The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. The Battle of Kursk was the single largest battle in the history of warfare. It, along with the Battle of Stalingrad several months earlier, are the two most oft-cited turning points in the European theatre of the war.

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Battle of Prokhorovka

The Battle of Prokhorovka was fought on 12 July 1943 near Prokhorovka, southeast of Kursk, in the Soviet Union, during the Second World War.

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Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of StalingradSchlacht von Stalingrad see; p (17 July 19422 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in southern Russia.

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Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation

The Belgorod–Kharkov strategic offensive operation, or simply Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation, was a Soviet strategic summer offensive that aimed to recapture Belgorod and Kharkov, and destroy Nazi German forces of the 4th Panzer Army and Army Detachment Kempf.

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Bryansk Front

The Bryansk Front (Брянский фронт) was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War. 1st Ukrainian Front and Bryansk Front are Soviet fronts.

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Carpathian Military District

The Red Banner Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces during the Cold War and subsequently of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the early Post-Soviet period.

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Case Blue

Case Blue (German: Fall Blau) was the Wehrmacht plan for the 1942 strategic summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and 24 November 1942, during World War II.

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Central Group of Forces

The Central Group of Forces (Russian: Центральная группа войск) was a formation of the Soviet Armed Forces used to incorporate Soviet troops in Central Europe on two occasions: in Austria and Hungary from 1945 to 1955 and troops stationed in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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David M. Glantz

David M. Glantz (born January 11, 1942) is an American military historian known for his books on the Red Army during World War II and as the chief editor of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Field army

A field army (also known as numbered army or simply army) is a military formation in many armed forces, composed of two or more corps.

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Filipp Golikov

Filipp Ivanovich Golikov (Филипп Иванович Голиков; – July 29, 1980) was a Soviet military commander.

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Front (military formation)

A front (front) is a type of military formation that originated in the Russian Empire, and has been used by the Polish Army, the Red Army, the Soviet Army, and Turkey. 1st Ukrainian Front and front (military formation) are Soviet fronts.

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Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (a; 189618 June 1974) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Group of Soviet Forces in Germany

The Western Group of Forces (WGF), previously known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (GSOFG) and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG), were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Ivan Konev

Ivan Stepanovich Konev (p; 28 December 1897 – 21 May 1973) was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, responsible for taking much of Axis-occupied Eastern Europe.

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John Erickson (historian)

John Erickson, FRSE, FBA, FRSA (17 April 1929 – 10 February 2002) was a British historian and defence expert who wrote extensively on the Second World War. His two best-known books – The Road to Stalingrad and The Road to Berlin – dealt with the Soviet response to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, covering the period from 1941 to 1945.

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Kamenets–Podolsky pocket

The Battle of the Kamenets–Podolsky pocket (or Hube Pocket) was part of the larger Soviet Proskurov–Chernovtsy offensive (Russian: Проскуровско-Черновицкая Операция, Proskurovsko-Chernovitskaya Operatsiya), whose main goal was to envelop the Wehrmacht's 1st Panzer Army of Army Group South.

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Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive

The Lvov–Sandomierz offensive or Lvov–Sandomierz strategic offensive operation (Львовско-Сандомирская стратегическая наступательная операция) was a major Red Army operation to force the German troops from Ukraine and Eastern Poland.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nikolai Vatutin

Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin (Николай Фёдорович Ватутин; 16 December 1901 – 15 April 1944) was a Soviet military commander during World War II who was responsible for many Red Army operations in the Ukrainian SSR as the commander of the Southwestern Front, and of the Voronezh Front during the Battle of Kursk.

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Operation Little Saturn

Operation Little Saturn (operatsiya "Malyy Saturn") was a Red Army offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II that led to battles in Don and Chir rivers region in German-occupied Soviet Union territory in 16–30 December 1942.

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Operation Star

Operation Star or Operation Zvezda (lit) was a Red Army offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II begun on 2 February 1943.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Prague offensive

The Prague offensive (lit) was the last major military operation of World War II in Europe.

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Prague Spring

The Prague Spring (Pražské jaro, Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..

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Second Army (Hungary)

The Hungarian Second Army (Második Magyar Hadsereg) was one of three field armies raised by the Kingdom of Hungary which saw action during World War II.

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Second Polish Army (1944–45)

The Polish Second Army (Druga Armia Wojska Polskiego, 2. AWP for short) was a Polish Army unit formed in the Soviet Union in 1944 as part of the People's Army of Poland.

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Siege of Breslau

The Siege of Breslau, also known as the Battle of Breslau, was a three-month-long siege of the city of Breslau in Lower Silesia, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), lasting to the end of World War II in Europe.

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Silesian offensives

The Silesian offensives (Силезские наступления) were two separate offensives conducted in Silesia in February and March 1945 by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in World War II, to protect the flanks of the Red Army during its push to Berlin to prevent a Wehrmacht counterattack.

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Tank

A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat.

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Third Battle of Kharkov

The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by Army Group South of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Red Army, around the city of Kharkov between 19 February and 15 March 1943.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.

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Vistula–Oder offensive

The Vistula–Oder offensive was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in the European theatre of World War II in January 1945.

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Voronezh

Voronezh (Воро́неж) is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located from where it flows into the Don River.

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Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive

The 1943 Battle of Voronezh or Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive operation (often credited in Russian as the liberation of Voronezh (освобождение Воронежа)) was a Soviet counter-offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II on recapturing the city of Voronezh during January 1943.

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Wehrmacht

The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wrocław

Wrocław (Breslau; also known by other names) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia.

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13th Army (Soviet Union)

The 13th Army was a name given to several field armies of the Soviet Union's Red Army.

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13th Guards Rifle Division

The 13th Guards Poltava Order of Lenin Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army that was highly decorated during World War II.

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1945 Moscow Victory Parade

The 1945 Moscow Victory Parade (r), also known as the Parade of Victors (r), was a victory parade held by the Soviet Armed Forces (with the Color Guard Company representing the First Polish Army) after the defeat of Nazi Germany.

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1st Guards Cavalry Corps

1st Guards Cavalry Zhytomyr Red Banner Corps (Russian: 1-й гвардейский кавалерийский Житомирский Краснознаменный корпус) was a military unit of the Soviet Red Army which was renamed from the 2nd Cavalry Corps.

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1st Guards Tank Army

The 1st Guards Tank Red Banner Army is a tank army of the Russian Ground Forces (Military Unit Number 73621). The army traces its heritage back to the 1st Tank Army, formed twice in July 1942 and in January 1943 and converted into the 1st Guards Tank Army in January 1944. The army fought as part of the Red Army on the Eastern Front during World War II.

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1st Ukrainian Front

The 1st Ukrainian Front (Пéрвый Украи́нский фронт), previously the Voronezh Front (label), was a major formation of the Red Army during World War II, being equivalent to a Western army group. 1st Ukrainian Front and 1st Ukrainian Front are battle of Berlin, Prague offensive and Soviet fronts.

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20th Guards Combined Arms Army

The 20th Guards Combined Arms Army (originally designated as the 4th Tank Army, 4th Guards Tank Army in 1945, 4th Guards Mechanised Army in 1946, and the 20th Guards Army in 1960 within the Soviet Ground Forces) is a field army.

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27th Army (Soviet Union)

The 27th Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, which fought in World War II.

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28th Army (Soviet Union)

The 28th Army was a field army of the Red Army and the Soviet Ground Forces, formed three times in 1941–42 and active during the postwar period for many years in the Belorussian Military District.

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2nd Air Army

The 2nd Air Army (2 VA) was an air army of the Red Army Air Force (Soviet Air Force) during the Second World War.

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2nd Belorussian Front

The 2nd Belorussian Front (Второй Белорусский фронт, Vtoroi Belorusskiy front, also romanized "Byelorussian"), was a major formation of the Soviet Army during World War II, being equivalent to a Western army group. 1st Ukrainian Front and 2nd Belorussian Front are Soviet fronts.

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2nd Ukrainian Front

The 2nd Ukrainian Front (2-й Украинский фронт) was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War. 1st Ukrainian Front and 2nd Ukrainian Front are Soviet fronts.

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31st Army (Soviet Union)

The 31st Army was a field army of the Red Army during the Second World War.

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38th Army (Soviet Union)

The 38th Red Banner Army was a field army of the Soviet Union that existed between 1941 and 1991.

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3rd Guards Army

The 3rd Guards Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II.

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3rd Guards Tank Army

The 3rd Guards Tank Army (3-я гвардейская танковая армия) was a tank army established by the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.

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40th Army (Soviet Union)

The 40th Army (40-ya obshchevoyskovaya armiya, "40th Combined Arms Army") of the Soviet Ground Forces was an army-level command that participated in World War II from 1941 to 1945 and was reformed specifically for the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979 to circa 1990.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Ukrainian_Front

Also known as 1st Ukrainian, First Ukrainian Front, Voronezh Front.

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See also

Battle of Berlin

Prague offensive

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