338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), the Glossary
The 338th Rifle Division was first formed in September 1941, as a standard Red Army rifle division, at Penza.[1]
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72 relations: Babinavichy, Bahushewsk, Baltic offensive, Battle of Königsberg, Battle of Lenino, Battle of Moscow, Battles of Rzhev, Dnieper, Dobrovolsk, Hmayak Babayan, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Jonava, Kėdainiai, Krasnoznamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Lake Lukomlskoye, Lüshun Port, Lyenina, Mogilev Region, Maloyaroslavets, Mikhail Yefremov (military commander), Mozhaysk, Nara (Oka), Naro-Fominsk, Neman, Operation Bagration, Operation Büffel, Order of the Red Banner, Orel Military District, Orsha, Penza, Raseiniai, Red Army, Reserve of the Supreme High Command, Riga offensive (1944), Sambia Peninsula, Samland offensive, Smolensk, Smolensk operation, Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Soviet invasion of Manchuria, Spas-Demensk, Syanno, Transbaikal Front, Vasily Sokolovsky, VI Army Corps (Wehrmacht), Vistula Lagoon, Vistula–Oder offensive, Vitebsk, Volga Military District, Vyazma, Western Front (Soviet Union), ... Expand index (22 more) »
Babinavichy
Babinavichy is an agrotown in Lyozna District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus.
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Bahushewsk
Bahushewsk or Bogushevsk (Bahušeŭsk; Богушевск) is an urban-type settlement in Syanno District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus.
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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 Königsberg
The Battle of Königsberg, also known as the Königsberg offensive, was one of the last operations of the East Prussian offensive during World War II.
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Battle of Lenino
The Battle of Lenino was a tactical World War II engagement that took place on 12 and 13 October 1943, north of the village of Lenino in the Mogilev region of Byelorussia.
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Battle of Moscow
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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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Dnieper
The Dnieper, also called Dnepr or Dnipro, is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.
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Dobrovolsk
Dobrovolsk (Доброво́льск, lit. "Voluntary Town"; Pillkallen (1510–1938) or Schloßberg (1938–1947); Pilkalnis; Pilkały) is a village in Krasnoznamensky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
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Hmayak Babayan
Hmayak Grigoryevich Babayan (15 August 1901 21 April 1945) was an Armenian Red Army major general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Ivan Chernyakhovsky
Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky (Иван Данилович Черняховский; Іван Данилович Черняховський; – 18 February 1945) was the youngest-ever Soviet General of the army.
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Jonava
Jonava (Janów; Janau) is the ninth largest city in Lithuania with a population of.
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Kėdainiai
Kėdainiai is one of the oldest cities in Lithuania.
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Krasnoznamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast
Krasnoznamensk (Краснозна́менск, lit. Red Banner Town; Lasdehnen (1734-1938), Haselberg (1938-1946); Lazdynai) is a town and the administrative center of Krasnoznamensky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Šešupė River, northeast of Kaliningrad, the administrative center of the oblast, and approximately to the south of the border with Lithuania.
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Lake Lukomlskoye
Lake Lukomlskoye or Lukoml Lake (Лукомскае возера, Лукомальскае возера; Лукомльское озеро) is a lake in Chashniki District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus.
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Lüshun Port
Lüshun Port in Lüshunkou District, Dalian, Liaoning province, China, refers to the original Lüshun Naval Port for military use or the New Lüshun Port for commercial use.
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Lyenina, Mogilev Region
Lyenina or Lenino (Ленино) is an agrotown in Horki District, Mogilev Region, Belarus.
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Maloyaroslavets
Maloyaroslavets (Малояросла́вец) is a town and the administrative center of Maloyaroslavetsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Luzha River (Oka's basin), northeast of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast.
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Mikhail Yefremov (military commander)
Lieutenant General Mikhail Grigoryevich Yefremov (Михаи́л Григо́рьевич Ефре́мов; March 11 1897, Tarusa, Kaluga Governorate – April 19 1942, Vyazemsky District) was a Soviet military commander.
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Mozhaysk
MozhayskAlternative transliterations include Mozhaisk, Mozhajsk, Mozhaĭsk, and Možajsk.
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Nara (Oka)
The Nara (Нара) is a river in the Moscow Oblast and Kaluga Oblast in Russia.
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Naro-Fominsk
Naro-Fominsk (На́ро-Фоми́нск) is a town and the administrative center of Naro-Fominsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Nara River, southwest from Moscow.
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Neman
The Neman, Niemen or Nemunas is a river in Europe that rises in central Belarus and flows through Lithuania then forms the northern border of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia's western exclave, which specifically follows its southern channel.
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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 Büffel
Operation Büffel ("Buffalo") was a series of local retreats conducted by the German Army Group Centre on the Eastern Front during the period 1–22 March 1943.
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The Order of the Red Banner (Orden Krasnogo Znameni) was the first Soviet military decoration.
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Orel Military District
The Orel Military District (p) was a military district of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Soviet Union.
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Orsha
Orsha (Orša; Орша,; Orša, Orsza) is a city in Vitebsk Region, Belarus.
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Penza
Penza (Пенза) is the largest city and administrative center of Penza Oblast, Russia.
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Raseiniai
Raseiniai (Samogitian: Raseinē) is a city in Lithuania.
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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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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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Sambia Peninsula
Sambia (translit) or Samland (translit) or Kaliningrad Peninsula (official name, Калининградский полуостров, Kaliningradsky poluostrov) is a peninsula in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea.
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Samland offensive
The Samland offensive was a Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front in the final stages of World War II.
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Smolensk
Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow.
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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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Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
Sovetsk (Сове́тск; Tilsit; Old Prussian: Tilzi; Tilžė) is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania.
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Soviet invasion of Manchuria
The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, formally known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation or simply the Manchurian Operation, began on 9 August 1945 with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.
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Spas-Demensk
Spas-Demensk (Спас-Де́менск) is a town and the administrative center of Spas-Demensky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Demena River (an arm of the Ugra) west of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast.
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Syanno
Syanno or Senno (Sianno; Сенно; Sienno; Siano) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus.
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Transbaikal Front
The Transbaikal Front (Забайкальский фронт) was a front formed on September 15, 1941, on the basis of the Transbaikal Military District.
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Vasily Sokolovsky
Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky (Васи́лий Дани́лович Соколо́вский; July 21, 1897 – May 10, 1968) was a Soviet general, military theorist, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and a commander of Red Army forces during World War II.
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VI Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
The VI Corps (VI.) was an infantry corps of the German Army.
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Vistula Lagoon
The Vistula Lagoon is a brackish water lagoon on the Baltic Sea roughly 56 miles (90 km) long, 6 to 15 miles (10 to 19 km) wide, and up to 17 feet (5 m) deep, separated from the Gdańsk Bay by the Vistula Spit.
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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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Vitebsk
Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (Viciebsk,; Витебск) is a city in northern Belarus.
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Volga Military District
The Volga Military District (PriVO) was a military district of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation that existed from 1918 to 1989 and 1992 to 2001. 338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Volga Military District are military units and formations awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
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Vyazma
Vyazma (Вязьма) is a town and the administrative center of Vyazemsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyazma River, about halfway between Smolensk, the administrative center of the oblast, and Mozhaysk.
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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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XXVIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
The XXVIII Army Corps (German designation XXVIII. Armeekorps) was a corps which served in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II.
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10th Guards Army
The 10th Guards Army was a Soviet Guards formation which fought against Germany during World War II under the command of several generals.
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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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18th Machine Gun Artillery Division
The 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division is a division of the Russian Ground Forces stationed in Sakhalin Oblast with administration over the Kuril Islands. 338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division are military units and formations awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
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1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division
The Polish 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division (1 Polska Dywizja Piechoty im.) was an infantry division in the Polish armed forces formed in 1943 and named for the Polish and American revolutionary Tadeusz Kościuszko. 338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division are military units and formations awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
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256th Infantry Division
The 256th Infantry Division (256. Infanterie-Division) was a German infantry division in World War II.
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25th Panzergrenadier Division
The 25th Infantry Division was a military unit of the German Wehrmacht.
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26th Army (Soviet Union)
The 26th Army (Russian: 26-я армия 26-ya armiya) was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, active from 1941.
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2nd Guards Tank Corps
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. 338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 2nd Guards Tank Corps are military units and formations awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
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31st Army (Soviet Union)
The 31st Army was a field army of the Red Army during the Second World War. 338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 31st Army (Soviet Union) are military units and formations disestablished in 1946 and military units and formations established in 1941.
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33rd Army (Soviet Union)
The Red Army's 33rd Army was a Soviet field army during the Second World War. 338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 33rd Army (Soviet Union) are military units and formations established in 1941.
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371st Rifle Division
The 371st Rifle Division was raised in 1941 as a standard Red Army rifle division, and served for the duration of the Great Patriotic War in that role. 338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 371st Rifle Division are infantry divisions of the Soviet Union in World War II, military units and formations awarded the Order of the Red Banner, military units and formations disestablished in 1946 and military units and formations established in 1941.
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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. 338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 39th Army (Soviet Union) are military units and formations established in 1941.
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3rd Belorussian Front
The 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Red Army during the Second World War.
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3rd Panzer Army
The 3rd Panzer Army (3.) was a German armoured formation during World War II, formed from the 3rd Panzer Group on 1 January 1942.
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43rd Army (Soviet Union)
The 43rd Army was a Red Army field army of World War II that served on the Eastern Front. 338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 43rd Army (Soviet Union) are military units and formations disestablished in 1946 and military units and formations established in 1941.
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49th Combined Arms Army
The 49th Combined Arms Army (49-я общевойсковая армия) is a combined arms (field) army (CAA) of the Russian Ground Forces, formed in 2010 and headquartered in Stavropol. 338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 49th Combined Arms Army are military units and formations established in 1941.
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4th Army (Wehrmacht)
The 4th Army was a field army of the Wehrmacht during World War II.
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50th Army (Soviet Union)
The 50th Army was a Soviet field army during World War II. 338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 50th Army (Soviet Union) are military units and formations established in 1941.
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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. 338th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 5th Combined Arms Army are military units and formations awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
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78th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 78th Infantry Division, later known as the 78th Assault Division, was a German infantry formation which fought during World War II.
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95th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 95th Infantry Division (95.) was a German division in World War II.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/338th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)
Also known as 338th Rifle Division.
, XXVIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht), 10th Guards Army, 11th Guards Army, 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division, 256th Infantry Division, 25th Panzergrenadier Division, 26th Army (Soviet Union), 2nd Guards Tank Corps, 31st Army (Soviet Union), 33rd Army (Soviet Union), 371st Rifle Division, 39th Army (Soviet Union), 3rd Belorussian Front, 3rd Panzer Army, 43rd Army (Soviet Union), 49th Combined Arms Army, 4th Army (Wehrmacht), 50th Army (Soviet Union), 5th Combined Arms Army, 78th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), 95th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht).