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22nd Army (Soviet Union), the Glossary

The 22nd Army was a field army of the Red Army during World War II.^[1]

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Army Group Courland

Army Group Courland (Heeresgruppe Kurland) was a German Army Group on the Eastern Front.

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The Baltic offensive, also known as the Baltic strategic offensive, was the military campaign between the northern Fronts of the Red Army and the German Army Group North in the Baltic States during the autumn of 1944.

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Battle of Smolensk (1941)

The first Battle of Smolensk (Kesselschlacht bei Smolensk, 'Cauldron-battle at Smolensk') was a battle during the second phase of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, in World War II.

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Battles of Rzhev

The Battles of Rzhev (Rzhevskaya bitva) were a series of Red Army offensives against the Wehrmacht between 8 January 1942 and 31 March 1943, on the Eastern Front of World War II.

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Bely, Tver Oblast

Bely (Бе́лый) is a town and the administrative center of Belsky District in Tver Oblast, Russia.

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Courland Pocket

The Courland Pocket was an area of the Courland Peninsula where Army Group North of Nazi Germany and the Reichskommissariat Ostland were cut off and surrounded by the Red Army for almost a year, lasting from July 1944 until 10 May 1945.

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Daugava

The Daugava (Daugova; Dźwina; Düna) or Western Dvina (translit; Заходняя Дзвіна; Väina; Väinäjoki) is a large river rising in the Valdai Hills of Russia that flows through Belarus and Latvia into the Gulf of Riga of the Baltic Sea.

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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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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 Yershakov

Filipp Afanasyevich Yershakov (– 9 June 1942) was a Red Army lieutenant general who held field army command during World War II.

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Foreign Military Studies Office

The Foreign Military Studies Office, or FMSO, is a research and analysis center for the United States Army that is part of the United States Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth.

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Gennady Korotkov

Gennady Petrovich Korotkov (18 August 1898 – 23 November 1982) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general who held field army command during World War II.

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Idritsa

Idritsa (Идрица) is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Sebezhsky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the Idritsa River, a left tributary of the Velikaya River.

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Kalinin Front

The Kalinin Front was a major formation of the Red Army active in the Eastern Front of World War II, named for the city of Kalinin.

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Kholm, Kholmsky District, Novgorod Oblast

Kholm (Холм) is a town and the administrative center of Kholmsky District in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Lovat and Kunya Rivers, north of Toropets, southwest of Staraya Russa, and south of Veliky Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Northwestern Front

The Northwestern Front (Russian: Северо-Западный фронт) was a military formation of the Red Army during the Winter War and World War II.

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Novorzhev

Novorzhev (Новорже́в) is a town and the administrative center of Novorzhevsky District in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the Sorot River southeast of Pskov, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Odessa Military District

The Odessa Military District (Одесский военный округ, ОВО;, abbreviated) was a military administrative division of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Olenino

Olenino (Оленино) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Operation Mars

Operation Mars (Russian: Операция «Марс»), also known as the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation (Russian: Вторая Ржевско-Сычёвская наступательная операция), was the codename for an offensive launched by Soviet forces against German forces during World War II.

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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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Riga offensive (1944)

The Riga offensive (lit) was part of the larger Baltic offensive on the Eastern Front during World War II.

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Separate Coastal Army

The Separate Coastal Army (Приморская армия), also translated to English as Independent Coastal Army, was an army-level unit in the Red Army that fought in World War II. 22nd Army (Soviet Union) and Separate Coastal Army are field armies of the Soviet Union.

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Staraya Russa

Staraya Russa (Старая Русса) is a town in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Polist River, south of Veliky Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Taurida Military District

The Taurida Military District was a military district of the Soviet Union.

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Tver

Tver (Тверь) is a city and the administrative centre of Tver Oblast, Russia.

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Vasily Yushkevich

Vasily Alexandrovich Yushkevich (– 15 March 1951) was a Soviet Army colonel general.

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Velikiye Luki

Velikiye Luki (p; lit. great meanders. Г. П. Смолицкая. "Топонимический словарь Центральной России". "Армада-Пресс", 2002 (G. P. Smolitskaya. Toponymic Dictionary of Central Russia. Armada-Press, 2002) or longbows) is a town in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the meandering Lovat River.

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Vitebsk

Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (Viciebsk,; Витебск) is a city in northern Belarus.

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Vyerkhnyadzvinsk

Vyerkhnyadzvinsk or Verkhnedvinsk (Vierchniadzvinsk; Верхнедвинск), previously known as Drysa or Drissa until 1962, is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus.

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Wehrmacht

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

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Western Front (Soviet Union)

The Western Front was a front of the Red Army, one of the Red Army Fronts during World War II.

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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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109th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 109th Rifle Division was a Red Army infantry division that was formed three times, briefly in 1939, during 1942, and again from 1942 to 1946.

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119th Rifle Division

The 119th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, formed three times.

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153rd Rifle Division

The 153rd Rifle Division was a Soviet infantry division of the Red Army during World War II.

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168th Rifle Division

The 168th Rifle Division was formed as an infantry division of the Red Army in the Leningrad Military District in August - September 1939, based on the shtat (table of organization and equipment) of the latter month.

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170th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 170th Rifle Division was originally formed as an infantry division of the Red Army in the Ural Military District in September 1939, based on the shtat (table of organization and equipment) of that same month.

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17th Tank Brigade (Ukraine)

The 17th Tank Brigade is a brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces formed in 1940.

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186th Rifle Division (1939 formation)

The original 186th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, formed just before the start of the Second World War, in the Ural Military District, based on the pre-September 13, 1939 shtat (table of organization and equipment).

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19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian)

The 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian) (19., 19.) was an infantry division of the Waffen-SS during World War II.

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20th Guards Motor Rifle Division

The 20th Guards Carpathian-Berlin Motor Rifle Division is a formation of the Russian Ground Forces, originally formed within the Soviet Red Army as the 3rd Mechanised Corps.

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219th Rifle Division

The 219th Rifle Division was formed as an infantry division of the Red Army after a motorized division of that same number was redesignated about 10 weeks after the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

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256th Rifle Division

The 256th Rifle Division was the last of a group of 10 regular rifle divisions formed from cadres of NKVD border and internal troops as standard Red Army rifle divisions, very shortly after the German invasion, in the Moscow Military District.

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268th Rifle Division

The 268th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.

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2nd Baltic Front

The 2nd Baltic Front (2-й Прибалтийский фронт) was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War.

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394th Rifle Division

The 394th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army 1941-45.

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39th Army (Soviet Union)

The 39th Army was a Field Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II and of the Soviet Army during the Cold War. 22nd Army (Soviet Union) and 39th Army (Soviet Union) are field armies of the Soviet Union.

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