✦ History

Operation Bagration

June 22 – August 19, 1944

Result Soviet victory

Soviet summer offensive of 1944 in Belarus that destroyed most of the German Army Group Centre. The Red Army advanced to the Vistula and the edge of East Prussia, and German losses were heavier than at Stalingrad.

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Battles 10

June 23–28, 1944
Vitebsk–Orsha offensive Soviet victory Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Ivan Bagramyan
June 23–28, 1944
Mogilev offensive Soviet victory Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
June 28, 1944
Bobruysk offensive Soviet victory Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Konstantin Rokossovsky, Hans Jordan
June 29 – July 4, 1944
Minsk offensive Soviet Victory Walter Model, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Dietrich von Saucken
June 29 – July 4, 1944
Polotsk offensive Soviet Victory Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Ivan Bagramyan
July 1944
Vilnius offensive Soviet victory Lithuania Walter Model, Dietrich von Saucken, Reiner Stahel
July 5, 1944
Šiauliai offensive Soviet victory Lithuania Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Ivan Bagramyan
July 5–27, 1944
Belostok offensive Soviet victory Walter Weiß
July 18 – August 2, 1944
Lublin–Brest offensive Soviet victory Konstantin Rokossovsky, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Josef Harpe
July 28 – August 28, 1944
Kaunas offensive Soviet victory Kaunas Walter Model

Key commanders

Allies 6

Georgy Zhukov military commander Konstantin Rokossovsky military commander Ivan Konev military commander Aleksandr Vasilevsky military commander Ivan Bagramyan military commander Pavel Rotmistrov military commander

Axis 9

Walter Model military commander Georg-Hans Reinhardt military commander Walter Weiß military commander Ernst Busch military commander Hans Jordan military commander Nikolaus von Vormann military commander Josef Harpe military commander Dietrich von Saucken military commander Reiner Stahel military commander