Red Army strategic operations in World War II

Red Army strategic operations were major military events carried out between 1941 and 1945 on the Eastern Front or in 1945 in the Far East during the Second World War. Such operations typically involved at least one front: the largest military formation of the Soviet Armed Forces. The operations could be defensive, offensive, a withdrawal, an encirclement, or a siege, always conducted by at least two services of the armed forces (the ground and air forces), and often included the navy. In most cases, the Stavka divided strategic operations into operationalphases (large operations in their own right). In a few cases the phases were tactical, such as amphibious landings.