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Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive
The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive or Karelian offensive was a strategic operation by the Soviet Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus and East Karelia fronts of the Continuation War, on the Eastern Front of World War II. The Soviet forces captured East Karelia and Vyborg/Viipuri. After that, however, the fighting reached a stalemate. The operations of the strategic offensive can be divided into the following offensives: * Viipuri (10–20 June) by the Leningrad Front * Virojoki-Lappeenranta (21 June – 15 July) by the Leningrad Front ** Koivisto landing (20–25 June) by the Baltic Fleet * Svir–Petrozavodsk (21 June – 9 August) by the Karelian Front ** Tuloksa landing (23–27 June) by the Soviet Ladoga Flotilla Background In January 1944, Soviet forces raised the Siege of Leningrad and drove the German Army Group North back to the Narva-Lake Ilmen-Pskov line. Finland had conducted peace negotiations intermittently during 1943–1944 wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Continuation War
The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet–Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II. It began with a Finnish declaration of war on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 September 1944 with the Moscow Armistice. The Soviet Union and Finland had previously fought the Winter War from 1939 to 1940, which ended with the Soviet failure to conquer Finland and the Moscow Peace Treaty. Numerous reasons have been proposed for the Finnish decision to invade, with regaining territory lost during the Winter War regarded as the most common. Other justifications for the conflict include Finnish President Risto Ryti's vision of a Greater Finland and Commander-in-Chief Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's desire to annex East Karelia. The following paragraph contains a bundle of cites for the Finnish participation in the siege of Leningrad, which is a commonly debated complex issue in the article (see talk).--> On 22 June 1941 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st Army (Soviet Union)
The Soviet 21st Army was a field army of the Red Army during World War II. Operational history June–September 1941 21st Army was a part of the Second Operational Echelon of the Red Army. It was formed from the forces of the Volga Military District in May 1941 and was initially based on 63rd Rifle Corps ( 53rd, 148th, and 167th Rifle Divisions) and 66th Rifle Corps. The army was under the command of Lieutenant-General Vasily Gerasimenko, and its chief of staff was Major-General Vasily Gordov. The commander of 63rd Rifle Corps was Lieutenant-General Leonid Petrovsky and the commander of 66th Rifle Corps was Major-General Fyodor Sudakov. In early June the army was moved to the eastern fringes of the Pripyat Marshes south of Homel. At the outbreak of hostilities on 22 June the army was redeployed north to defend the right bank of the Dnepr between Rybchev and Stary-Bykhov. At the same time 25th Mechanized Corps, under the command of Major-General Semyon Krivoshein, was as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karelian Isthmus
The Karelian Isthmus (; ; ) is the approximately stretch of land situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, to the north of the River Neva. Its northwestern boundary is a line from the Bay of Vyborg to the westernmost point of Lake Ladoga, Pekonlahti. If the Karelian Isthmus is defined as the entire territory of present-day Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast to the north of the Neva and also a tiny part of the Republic of Karelia, the area of the isthmus is about . The smaller part of the isthmus to the southeast of the old Russia-Finland border is considered historically as Northern Ingria, rather than part of the Karelian Isthmus itself. The rest of the isthmus was historically a part of Finnish Karelia. This was conquered by the Russian Empire during the Great Northern War in 1712 and included within the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland (1809–1917) of the Russian Empire. When Finland became independent in 1917, the isthmus (excep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glantz
Glantz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aaron Glantz (1977–), American journalist and author * Abraham Glantz (1907–1998), South African cricketer * David M. Glantz (1942–), American military historian * Ezra Glantz (1945–), American handball goalkeeper * Leib Glantz (1898–1964), Ukrainian lyrical tenor * Margo Glantz (1930–), Mexican writer, essayist, critic, and academic * Matthew Glantz (1971–), American professional poker player * Nathan Glantz Nathan Glantz was an early 20th-century American jazz bandleader. Nathan Glantz and His Orchestra Nathan Glantz and His Orchestra had a number of aliases. The orchestra produced many recordings, including the following compositions: * ''June Nig ..., American jazz bandleader * Peter Glantz (1975–), American director of theater and film * Stanton Glantz (1946–), professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco {{surname, Glantz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Glantz
David M. Glantz (born January 11, 1942) is an American military historian known for his books on the Red Army during World War II and as the chief editor of '' The Journal of Slavic Military Studies''. Born in Port Chester, New York, Glantz received degrees in history from the Virginia Military Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Defense Language Institute, Institute for Russian and Eastern European Studies, and U.S. Army War College. Glantz had a career of more than 30 years in the U.S. Army, served in the Vietnam War, and retired as a colonel in 1993. Teaching career Glantz was a Mark W. Clark visiting professor of History at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Activity after retirement Glantz is known as a military historian of the Soviet role in World War II. He has argued that the view of the Soviet Union's involvement in the war has been prejudi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manninen
Manninen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Emilija Manninen (born 1981), Estonian hurdler *Hannes Manninen (born 1946), Finnish politician *Hannu Manninen (born 1978), Finnish Nordic combined athlete * Ilmari Manninen (1894–1935), Finnish ethnographer *Jarmo Manninen (born 1951), Finnish retired football player *Mauno Manninen (1915–1969), Finnish theatre director, poet and painter *Mikko Manninen (born 1985), Finnish professional football striker * Oskari Manninen (born 1991), Finnish ice hockey player *Otto Manninen (1872–1950), Finnish writer *Pirjo Manninen (born 1981), Finnish cross country skier *Raimo Manninen (alpine skier) Raimo Manninen (3 October 1940, in Lahti – 6 February 2009, in Janakkala) was a Finland, Finnish Alpine skiing, alpine skier who competed in the 1964 Winter Olympics and 1968 Winter Olympics. External links sports-reference.com 1940 births ... (1940–2009), Finnish alpine skier * Raimo Manninen (athlete) (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiihonen
Tiihonen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Pekka Tiihonen (born 1947), Finnish long-distance runner * Ilpo Tiihonen (1950–2021), Finnish writer * Cheek The cheeks () constitute the area of the face below the eyes and between the nose and the left or right ear. ''Buccal'' means relating to the cheek. In humans, the region is innervated by the buccal nerve. The area between the inside of th ... (born 1981), the stage name of Jare Henrik Tiihonen, Finnish rapper {{surname Finnish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Losses
Loss may refer to: *Economic loss *Grief, an emotional response to loss **Animal loss, grief over the loss of an animal Mathematics, science, and technology * Angular misalignment loss, power loss caused by the deviation from optimum angular alignment * Bridging loss, the loss that results when an impedance is connected across a transmission line *Coupling loss, the loss that occurs when energy is transferred from one circuit, optical device, or medium to another *Insertion loss, the decrease in transmitted signal power resulting from the insertion of a device in a transmission line or optical fiber *Dielectric loss, a dielectric material's inherent dissipation of electromagnetic energy *Loss function, in statistics, a function representing the cost associated with an event *Path loss, the attenuation undergone by an electromagnetic wave in transit from a transmitter to a receiver ** Free-space path loss, the loss in signal strength that would result if all influences were suffic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
32nd Army (Soviet Union)
The 32nd Army was a formation of the Soviet Army during World War II. The army was formed twice during the war, disbanded as part of the post-war demobilization and then reformed in 1969 to protect the Soviet-Chinese border. First formation The army was formed on 16 July 1941 in the Moscow Military District near the cities of Naro-Fominsk, Kubinka, and the settlement of Dorokhovo. The army was formed with four divisions of Moscow Militia. The assigned units included the 2nd, 7th, 8th, 13th Moscow Militia divisions.Soviet Military Encyclopedia. - T. 8. - S. 112. In addition, on 20 July 1941, 18th Moscow People's Militia Divisions was assigned to the Army at positions west of Moscow. The 18th had a strength of 10,000. On 18 July the army was incorporated into the Moscow line of defense and took up defensive positions in the vicinity of Karacharovo. On 30 July the army was assigned to the Reserve Front. On 1 October, the army included the 2nd Rifle Division, 8th Rifle Divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Army (Soviet Union)
The 7th Army (Russian: 7-я армия) was a Soviet Red Army field army during World War II, primarily against Finland. It was disbanded in 1944. It first saw action in the 1939–40 Winter War against Finland. In November 1939, just before the initial Soviet attack, it consisted of the 19th Rifle Corps (24th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 24th Rifle Division, 43rd Rifle Division, 43rd, 70th Rifle Division, 70th, 123 RD), 50th Rifle Corps (49 RD, 90 RD, 142nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 142 RD), 10th Tank Corps, 138th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 138th Rifle Division, and an independent tank brigade. The Army was first under Commander (Second rank) Vsevolod Yakovlev, but he was removed from command of his army and returned to Leningrad. Command of the war operation Kirill Meretskov was called-off due to extensive failures and heavy casualties, and he replaced Yakovlev as the commander of the Seventh Army.#Edwards2006, Edwards 2006, p. 125 7th Army was reformed in Autumn ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
