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    The second Smolensk operation (code naming "Suvorov"; 7 August – 2 October 1943) was a Soviet strategic offensive operation conducted by the Red Army as...
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    Dnieper (redirect from Dniepr)
    major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Approximately...
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    of Mogilev with Bagration; he went to Orsha, and crossed the Dniepr on his way to Smolensk. Davout thought Bagration had some 60,000 men and Bagration...
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    Army, as well. Timoshenko's orders were to defend the Western Dvina River-Dniepr River line. To this end the front deployed on its northern flank the 22nd...
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  • in the month it was subordinated to 26th Army as it retreated toward the Dniepr River, but after crossing south of Kyiv it was reassigned to 38th Army....
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    Battle of Krasnoi (category History of Smolensk Oblast)
    albeit at the cost of his rearguard's sacrifice. Outside Smolensk, leaving the floodplain of the Dniepr, there is a steep slope passing into a long descent...
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    probably Baltic tribe of Galindians (in particular Eastern Galindians ). Dniepr Balts Moshchiny (Russian: Мощины) Kaluga Oblast. Russia. (in German) Matthias...
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  • south by rail, abandoning its positions along the upper reaches of the Dniepr River, but was soon ordered back when the offensive became more widespread...
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    Pennsylvania Holzhausen, p. 74 [1] [2] [3] Photos of the Losvinka and Dniepr by Elena Minina, Smolensk The real places of the crossing of Marshal Ney's 3rd Corps...
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  • 252nd Infantry Divisions of IX Corps roughly halfway between the Sozh and Dniepr Rivers. For the new attack set for October 3 the 164th was initially held...
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