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16-805: The 2nd Baltic Front was formed on October 20, 1943 as a result of the renaming of the Baltic Front , itself a successor of the Bryansk Front 10 days earlier. From 1 to 21 November 1943, the left wing of the Front took part in the Polotsk–Vitebsk Offensive . In January-February, the front participated in the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive of 1944. During the Staraya Russa-Novorzhev Offensive ,

32-576: A failure. After the failure of the Smolensk offensives, the seriously weakened front became trapped in an enormous encirclement in the lead-up to the Battle of Moscow . "Most of the troops found themselves encircled, and were fighting their way to the east," according to Zhukov . On 23 Oct., "thanks to heroic efforts they managed to break out of encirclement." On 10 Nov., the Bryansk Front

48-689: The 24th Cavalry Division , and the 22nd and 25th Tank Brigades. The units numbered 121,968 men and fielded 752 guns and 743 tanks on 17 September. The 3rd Army saw its first action in September 1939, taking part in the operation in Belarus and Poland . The invasion was conducted under the terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact , which divided Poland between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and guaranteed that neither country would attack

64-821: The Baltic Offensive , the front troops took part in the Riga Operation and by October 22 reached the Baltic Sea near the Memel river, blocking together with the troops of the 1st Baltic Front , the German Army Group North in the Courland Pocket . Subsequently, until April 1945, they continued the blockade and fought to destroy Army Group Courland . On April 1, 1945, the front was abolished and its troops were transferred to

80-656: The Battle of Smolensk (1941) , were promised but also badly worn down. In late August along with the Western Front (Soviet Union) and the Reserve Front , the Bryansk Front launched a large but unsuccessful counteroffensive in the Smolensk , El'nia, and Roslavl regions to halt Army Group Centre 's advance on Moscow. Despite some success by the Reserve Front at El'nia , the efforts by Bryansk Front were

96-911: The Leningrad Front . On 1 October 1944 the 2nd Baltic Front consisted of: Bryansk Front The Bryansk Front ( Russian : Брянский фронт ) was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War . General Andrei Yeremenko was designated commander of the Front when it first formed in mid-late August 1941, comprising, in Erickson's words, "on paper two armies, 50th and 13th , with eight rifle divisions each, three cavalry divisions, and one tank division but many of these formations were badly whittled down by battle losses." Two other armies from Soviet Central Front , 21st and 3rd Army , which had avoided encirclement at

112-525: The Stavka incorporated most of the Front's forces into the 1st Belorussian Front (former Central) and used Bryansk Front's HQ to form the HQ Baltic Front , which then became the 2nd Baltic Front . First Formation Second Formation Third Formation 3rd Army (Soviet Union) The 3rd Army ( Russian : 3-я армия ) was a field army of the Red Army during World War II . The 3rd Army

128-625: The Front troops reached Ostrov , Pushkinskiye Gory and Idritsa . In July 1944, the Rezhitsa–Dvinsk Offensive was carried out and the Front advanced 200 km to the west. In August it conducted the Madona Offensive , during which it advanced another 60-70 km along the northern shore of the Daugava River and captured the city of Madona , a major junction of railways and highway roads. In September-October 1944, during

144-743: The final phases of the war, the 3rd Army took part in Operation Bagration , the East Prussian Offensive , and the advance into eastern Germany, where it participated in the Battle of Berlin . On 1 May 1945 the 3rd Army consisted of the 35th Rifle Corps ( 250th , 290th , and 348th Rifle Divisions ), 40th Rifle Corps ( 5th , 129th , and 169th Rifle Divisions ), 41st Rifle Corps ( 120th Guards , 269th , and 283rd Rifle Divisions ), 4th Corps Artillery Brigade, 44th Gun Artillery Brigade, 584th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment, and other formations and units. The army headquarters

160-547: The operations of the Western , Central , Bryansk during the defenses of Grodno , Lida , and Novogrudok . The 3rd Army also took part in the Battle of Smolensk , where German troops captured the city in a difficult two-month campaign, and the Battle of Moscow , in which the Red Army's winter counter-attack led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov drove back Army Group Center over 70 miles (110 km) away from Moscow. During

176-405: The other. Order of Battle on 2 October 1939: After the start of Operation Barbarossa , it included three corps, including the 4th Rifle Corps ( 27th , 56th , and 85th Rifle Divisions ), as well as the 21st Rifle Corps ( 17th , 24th , 37th and 50th Rifle Divisions ) and 11th Mechanised Corps ( 29th and 33rd Tank Division and 204th Motorised Division ). The 3rd Army took part in

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192-686: The second half of the Eastern Front , the 3rd Army took part in the Battle of Kursk , where numerically superior Soviet forces, using anti-tank defenses, defeated the German forces, thus stopping Operation Zitadelle and robbing the German Army of all hopes of victory on the Eastern Front . The 3rd Army took part in the Bryansk , Gomel–Rechitsa , and Rogachev-Zhlobin Offensives . During

208-457: Was "disbanded". On its second formation in late 1941 under Yakov Cherevichenko , part of the troops and forces of the Bryansk Front defending the Voronezh region, being designated as Voronezh Front on 7 July 1942. By the time of Operation Blau , the German summer offensive of 1942, the Front comprised the 3rd , 13th , 40th , 48th Armies , the 5th Tank Army , and the 2nd Air Army . It

224-679: Was formed on 15 September 1939 from the Vitebsk Group of Forces , part of the Belorussian Front , which had been formed four days earlier from the Belorussian Special Military District for the Soviet invasion of Poland . The army was commanded by Komkor Vasily Kuznetsov . It included the 4th Rifle Corps with the 50th and 27th Rifle Divisions , in addition to the 5th Rifle Division ,

240-560: Was then reformed, then disbanded on 11–12 March 1943 and its headquarters became HQ Kursk Front after a short time expecting to be the headquarters and the basis of the new Reserve Front . It was later reformed from the Orel Front on 28 March 1943. By the time of the Battle of Kursk the Front consisted of Colonel General Markian Popov led it to liberate its namesake town Bryansk in August and September 1943. On 10 October 1943

256-639: Was withdrawn to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic , where it was reorganised in August 1945 as the short-lived Headquarters Belorussian-Lithuanian Military District. The Belorussian-Lithuanian Military District, according to a Czech internet source (valka), existed 31 Dec 44 – 9 July 1945, whereupon it was succeeded by the Minsk Military District. By this time the army consisted of three Rifle Corps with nine rifle divisions. Later, all of them except

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