✦ History

Part of Operation Bagration

Lublin–Brest offensive

July 18 – August 2, 1944

Result Soviet victory

Soviet forces advanced from Lublin to Brest and cleared eastern Poland and western Belarus of German forces. It was part of Operation Bagration and reached the Vistula.

Contemporaries

Axis

Allies

Germany
Soviet Union
Georg-Hans Reinhardt military commander Josef Harpe military commander
Konstantin Rokossovsky military commander

Units

Army Group Centre Army Group North Ukraine VIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XX Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
1st Belorussian Front 28th Army (Soviet Union) 31st Army (Soviet Union) 69th Army (Soviet Union) 70th Army (Soviet Union) Northwestern Operational Command 61st Rifle Corps 108th Rifle Division 12th Guards Rifle Division 130th Rifle Division 132nd Rifle Division 134th Rifle Division 137th Rifle Division 143rd Rifle Division 152nd Rifle Division 160th Rifle Division (1941 formation) 165th Rifle Division 170th Rifle Division 175th Rifle Division 185th Rifle Division 193rd Tank Division 1st Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division 212th Rifle Division 234th Rifle Division 247th Rifle Division 343rd Rifle Division 354th Rifle Division 356th Rifle Division 35th Guards Rifle Division 370th Rifle Division 397th Rifle Division 399th Rifle Division 413th Rifle Division 415th Rifle Division 48th Guards Rifle Division 4th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 50th Guards Rifle Division 69th Rifle Division 74th Guards Rifle Division 82nd Guards Rifle Division 88th Guards Rifle Division 96th Guards Rifle Division