Soviet 43rd Army

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The Soviet 43rd Army was a Red Army field formation that played a significant role on the Eastern Front in World War II, particularly in major offensives against German forces in East Prussia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf field army
activeDuring Great Patriotic War
allegiance Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
linked to: Red Army
branch Ground forces
conflict Second World War
linked to: World War II
country Soviet Union
engagedAgainst German Army Group Centre
linked to: Army Group Centre

German Army Group North
linked to: Army Group North

Wehrmacht
formedIn 1941
frontAssignment 3rd Belorussian Front
Belorussian Front
Kalinin Front
Western Front
languageOfCommand Russian
militaryBranchOf Soviet Armed Forces
linked to: Soviet armed forces
notableAction advance into East Prussia in 1945
participation in encirclement of German forces near Königsberg
notableCommander Afanasy Pavlantyevich Beloborodov
Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko
Konstantin Dmitrievich Golubev
Vasily Nikolaevich Yushkevich
notableResult contributed to defeat of German forces in East Prussia
operationalArea Belarus
East Prussia
Smolensk region
linked to: Smolensk Oblast
participatedIn Battle of Smolensk (1941)
Belarusian offensive operations
East Prussian Offensive
Gumbinnen–Goldap operation
Insterburg–Königsberg operation
Operation Suvorov
Rzhev–Vyazma operations
Samland offensive
linked to: Samland Offensive

Smolensk operation (1943)
Vyazma defensive operations
partOf Red Army
primaryOpponent Nazi Germany
role defensive operations in the Smolensk–Vyazma sector
offensive operations against German forces in East Prussia
theatre Eastern Front
type combined arms army

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Battle of Königsberg attacker Soviet 43rd Army
Polotsk offensive militaryUnit Soviet 43rd Army