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2nd Guards Tank Corps, the Glossary

The 2nd Guards Tatsinskaya Tank Corps was a tank corps of the Soviet Union's Red Army that saw service during World War II on the Eastern Front of Europe.^[1]

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Military units and formations disestablished in 2001
Tank corps of the Soviet Union

Aleksey Burdeyny

Aleksey Semyonovich Burdeyny (Ukrainian: Олексій Семенович Бурдейний; 18 October 1908 – 21 April 1987) was a Soviet colonel general who held corps command during World War II.

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Aleppo

Aleppo (ﺣَﻠَﺐ, ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous governorate of Syria.

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Armored Warfare (sometimes referred to as AW) is a free-to-play vehicular combat video game developed by Mail.ru and published by My.Games for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X. The game features combat vehicles from the 1950s through modern day and includes destructible environments as well as player vs.

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Army Group A

Army Group A was the name of three distinct army groups of the Heer, the ground forces of the Wehrmacht, during World War II.

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Baltic offensive

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 Debaltseve

The Battle of Debaltseve was a military confrontation in the city of Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast, between the pro-Russian separatist forces of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), and the Ukrainian Armed Forces, starting in mid-January 2015 during the war in the Donbas region.

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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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Bezrechnaya-2 (air base)

Bezrechnaya-2 (also given variously as Bezrechnaya, Bezrechnoy, Khodabulak, Khada Bulak North, or Mirnaya) was an interceptor aircraft base in Chita Oblast, Russia.

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Bolshakovo

Bolshakovo (Большако́во, Didieji Skaisgiriai, Groß Skaisgirren or Kreuzingen (1938-1946)), also referred to as Bolshakovo-Novoye (Большако́во-Новое), is a settlement located in the southern part of Slavsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, 90 km from Kaliningrad.

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Buryatia

Buryatia (Buryatiya; Buryaad Ulas), officially the Republic of Buryatia, is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East.

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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 Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Chita Oblast

Chita Oblast (p) was a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in southeast Siberia, Russia.

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Choibalsan (city)

Choibalsan (Mongolian: Чойбалсан) is the fourth-largest city in Mongolia after Ulaanbaatar, Darkhan, and Erdenet.

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Corps

Corps (plural corps; from French corps, from the Latin corpus "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization.

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Dmitry Lelyushenko

Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko (Дми́трий Дани́лович Лелюше́нко; (– 20 July 1987) was a Soviet military commander, the highest rank achieved being that of an Army General (1959). Twice the Hero of the Soviet Union (7 April 1940 and 5 April 1945), Hero of Czechoslovakia (30 May 1970).

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Don (river)

The Don (p) is the fifth-longest river in Europe.

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East Prussian offensive

The East Prussian offensive was a strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (World War II).

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Gumbinnen Operation

The Gumbinnen Operation,Glantz, Failures of Historiography also known as the Goldap Operation (or Goldap-Gumbinnen Operation, Гумбиннен-Гольдапская наступательная операция), was a Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front late in 1944, in which forces of the 3rd Belorussian Front attempted to penetrate the borders of East Prussia.

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Gusinoozyorsk

Gusinoozersk (Гусиноозёрск; Галуута Нуур, Galuuta Nuur; Галуутнуур, Galuutnuur) is a town and the administrative center of Selenginsky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia.

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Hero of the Soviet Union

The title Hero of the Soviet Union (translit) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.

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Kliment Voroshilov tank

The Kliment Voroshilov (KV) tanks are a series of Soviet heavy tanks named after the Soviet defence commissar and politician Kliment Voroshilov who operated with the Red Army during World War II.

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Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, in Milestone Documents, National Archives of the United States, Washington, D.C., retrieved February 8, 2024; (notes: "Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed 'vital to the defense of the United States.'"; contains photo of the original bill, H.R.

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Leningrad Military District

The Leningrad Military District (Russian: Ленингра́дский вое́нный о́круг) is a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

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Luga, Leningrad Oblast

Luga (Лу́га; Finnish: Ylä-Laukaa or Laukaa; Laugaz; Luuga) is a town and the administrative center of Luzhsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Luga River south of St. Petersburg.

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M3 Stuart

The M3 Stuart/light tank M3, was an American light tank of World War II.

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Mariya Oktyabrskaya

Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya (Мария Васильевна Октябрьская; 16 August 1905 – 15 March 1944) was a Soviet tank driver and mechanic who fought on the Eastern Front against Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Military Unit Number

A Military Unit Number (Russian: Войсковая часть) is a numeric alternate designation for military units in the armed forces and internal troops of post-Soviet states, originally used by those of the Soviet Union.

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Minsk offensive

The Minsk offensive (Минская наступательная операция) was part of the second phase of the Belorussian strategic offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944, commonly known as Operation Bagration.

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Mongolian Armed Forces

The Mongolian Armed Forces (Mongol Ulsyn zevsegt hüchin) is the collective name for the Mongolian military and the joint forces that comprise it.

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Nemmersdorf massacre

The Nemmersdorf massacre was a civilian massacre perpetrated by Red Army soldiers in the late stages of World War II.

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Northern Ukraine campaign

The northern Ukraine campaign was a theater of operation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Operation Bagration

Operation Bagration (Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation (Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya operatsiya "Bagration"), a military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern Front of World War II, just over two weeks after the start of Operation Overlord in the west, causing Nazi Germany to have to fight on two major fronts at the same time.

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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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Order of Suvorov

The Order of Suvorov is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named in honor of Russian Generalissimo Prince Alexander Suvorov (1729–1800).

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The Order of the Red Banner (Orden Krasnogo Znameni) was the first Soviet military decoration.

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Panzer division (Wehrmacht)

A Panzer division was one of the armored (tank) divisions in the army of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Pskov

Pskov (p; see also names in other languages) is a city in northwestern Russia and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, located about east of the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River.

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Raid on Tatsinskaya

The Raid on Tatsinskaya was a Soviet armoured raid deep into the German rear conducted by 24th Tank Corps under the command of Major General Vasily Mikhaylovich Badanov in late December 1942.

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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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Reserve of the Supreme High Command

The Reserve of the Supreme High Command (Russian: Резерв Верховного Главнокомандования; also known as the Stavka Reserve or RVGK (РВГК.) or RGK (РГК — Резерв Главного Командования). comprises reserve military formations and units; the Stavka Reserve acted as the principal military reserve of the Soviet Red Army during World War II, and the RVGK now operates as part of the Russian Armed Forces under the control of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces (Верховный главнокомандующий.) — the President of the Russian Federation.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Siberian Military District

The Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces.

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Smolensk operation

The second Smolensk operation (code naming "Suvorov";Istomin (1975), pp. 20–21 7 August – 2 October 1943) was a Soviet strategic offensive operation conducted by the Red Army as part of the Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1943.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stavka

The Stavka (Russian and Ukrainian: Ставка, Belarusian: Стаўка) is a name of the high command of the armed forces formerly used formerly in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union and currently in Ukraine.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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T-34

The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank from World War II.

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T-60 tank

The T-60 scout tank was a light tank produced by the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1942.

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T-62

The T-62 is a Soviet main battle tank that was first introduced in 1961.

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T-72

The T-72 is a family of Soviet main battle tanks that entered production in 1971.

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Tank corps (Soviet Union)

A tank corps (танковый корпус) was a type of Soviet armoured formation used during World War II. 2nd Guards Tank Corps and tank corps (Soviet Union) are tank corps of the Soviet Union.

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Tatsinsky District

Tatsinsky District (Таци́нский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #340-ZS and municipalLaw #251-ZS district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia.

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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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Ulan-Ude

Ulan-Ude (Улан-Удэ,; Ulaan-Üde) is the capital city of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence with the Selenga.

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Vasily Badanov

Vasily Mikhailovich Badanov (Васи́лий Миха́йлович Бада́нов; 14 December 18951 April 1971) was a Soviet military officer and general, best known for his leadership in the Tatsinskaya Raid (1942) and subsequent command of the 4th Tank Army (1943–1944).

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Võru

Võru (Võro; Werro) is a town and a municipality in south-eastern Estonia.

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Vitebsk

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

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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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11th Guards Army

The 11th Guards Army was a field army of the Red Army, the Soviet Ground Forces, and the Russian Ground Forces, active from 1943 to 1997.

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1st Guards Army (Soviet Union)

The 1st Guards Army was a Soviet Guards field army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II.

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2008 Russian military reform

The 2008 Russian military reform, often referred to as the Serdyukov reform after its originator, Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, was a major structural reorganisation of the Russian Armed Forces that began in 2009.

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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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245th Motor Rifle Division

The 245th Motor Rifle Division (Military Unit Number 46108) was a division of the Soviet Army and later the Russian Ground Forces, active from 1967 to 1997 and later from 2001 to 2006.

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25th Guards Rifle Division

The 25th Guards Rifle Division 'Chapayevskaya' was a division of the Soviet Red Army.

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36th Combined Arms Army

The 36th Combined Arms Army is a combined arms (field) army of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Eastern Military District (Military Unit Number 05776).

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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.

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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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5th Combined Arms Army

The 5th Guards Combined Arms Red Banner Army (5-я гвардейская общевойсковая армия) is a Russian Ground Forces formation in the Eastern Military District. 2nd Guards Tank Corps and 5th Combined Arms Army are military units and formations awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

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5th Guards Tank Army

The 5th Guards Tank Army (Russian: 5-я гварде́йская та́нковая а́рмия) was a Soviet Guards armored formation which fought in many notable actions during World War II. 2nd Guards Tank Corps and 5th Guards Tank Army are military units and formations awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

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5th Guards Tank Division

The 5th Guards Tank Division was an armored division of the Soviet Ground Forces and Russian Ground Forces, active from 1945 to 2009, in two different formations.

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6th Combined Arms Army

The 6th Combined Arms Army is a field army of the Red Army and the Soviet Army that was active with the Russian Ground Forces until 1998 and has been active since 2010 as the 6th Combined Arms Army.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Guards_Tank_Corps

Also known as 24th Tank Corps, 2nd Guards Tank Division, 2nd Tatsinskaya Guards Tank Corps, Tatsinskaya 2nd Guards Tank Corps.

, Stavka, Syria, T-34, T-60 tank, T-62, T-72, Tank corps (Soviet Union), Tatsinsky District, Third Battle of Kharkov, Ulan-Ude, Vasily Badanov, Võru, Vitebsk, Wehrmacht, World War II, 11th Guards Army, 1st Guards Army (Soviet Union), 2008 Russian military reform, 20th Guards Combined Arms Army, 245th Motor Rifle Division, 25th Guards Rifle Division, 36th Combined Arms Army, 39th Army (Soviet Union), 3rd Guards Army, 3rd Guards Tank Army, 5th Combined Arms Army, 5th Guards Tank Army, 5th Guards Tank Division, 6th Combined Arms Army.

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Military units and formations disestablished in 2001

Tank corps of the Soviet Union

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