The 2nd Baltic Front (russian: 2-й Прибалтийский фронт) was a major formation of the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
during the
Second World War
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History
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
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Pushkinskiye Gory
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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
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History
The surrounding area of Madona had been populated in earlier times, which is confirmed by discoveries ...
, during which it advanced another 60-70 km along the northern shore of the Daugava River and freed the city of
Madona
Madona (; german: Modohn) is a town with town rights in the Vidzeme region of Latvia and is the center of the Madona municipality.
History
The surrounding area of Madona had been populated in earlier times, which is confirmed by discoveries ...
, a major junction of railways and highway roads.
In September-October 1944, during the Baltic Offensive, the front troops took part in the Riga Operation and by October 22 reached the
Baltic Sea
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The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...
near the Memel river, blocking together with the troops of the
1st Baltic Front
The First Baltic Front (Russian language, Russian: Пéрвый Прибалтийский фронт) was a Front (military formation), major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War. It was commanded by Army General Andrey Yeryomenk ...
Courland Pocket
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. 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 the
Leningrad Front
The Leningrad Front (russian: Ленинградский фронт) was formed during the 1941 German approach on Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front
The Karelian Front ...
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Composition
On 1 October 1944 the 2nd Baltic Front consisted of:
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3rd Shock Army
The 3rd Shock Army (russian: Третья ударная армия) was a field army of the Red Army formed during the Second World War. The "Shock" armies were created with the specific structure to engage and destroy significant enemy forces ...
150th Rifle Division
The 150th Idritsa-Berlin Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class Motor Rifle Division (russian: Russian: 150-я Идрицко-Берлинская ордена Кутузова 2-й степени мотострелковая дивизия) of the Russian Gr ...
207th Rifle Division
The 207th Rifle Division began its combat path under unusual circumstances. It was partly formed for the first time as a standard Red Army rifle division in the spring of 1941, before the German invasion, but was never completed. A second formation ...
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100th Rifle Corps
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21st Guards Rifle Division
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28th Rifle Division
The 28th Rifle Division was a rifle division in the Soviet Red Army during the Russian Civil War, World War II and the Cold War.
The history of the division dates from the 2nd Consolidated Rifle Division, which took part in the Civil War, and w ...
10th Guards Army
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15th Guards Rifle Corps
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19th Guards Rifle Corps
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Mathematics
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130th Rifle Corps
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43rd Guards Rifle Division
The 43rd Guards Rifle Division was an elite Latvian infantry division of the Red Army during World War II.
The division was formed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in October, 1942, based on the 1st formation of the 201st Rifle Divisi ...
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308th Rifle Division
The 308th Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Soviet Red Army during World War II. The division was formed three separate times during the course of the war.
First Formation
The 308th Rifle Division first started forming on 25 December 1 ...
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37th Rifle Division
The 37th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.
It served in the North Caucasus Military District; established at Novocherkassk in 1919. In June–July 1939 it was at Omsk preparing for action a ...
110th Rifle Corps
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*11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12
* one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11
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168
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256th Rifle Division
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15th Air Army
The 15th Air Army was a military formation of the Soviet Air Forces, active from July 1942 until December 1993.
History
It was formed between 11 July and 15 August 1942, in accordance with the directive of the commander of the Soviet Air Force ...
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14th Fighter Aviation Corps
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5th Tank Corps
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(24, 41, 70TB, 5MotRB)
Commanders
*Colonel-General
Markian Popov
Markian Mikhaylovich Popov (; 1902–1969) was a Soviet military commander, Army General (26 August 1943), and Hero of the Soviet Union (1965).
Early life
Markian Popov was born in 1902 in Ust-Medvediskaya in the Don Host Oblast (now Volgograd O ...