Operation Concert was a Soviet military operation during

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, conducted as part of the

Rail War The Rail War (; ; ) was the name for a World War II action of Soviet partisans and the German '' Kampfgruppen des NKFD'' as their auxiliary force in the Soviet Union, especially in German-occupied Byelorussia and Ukraine. The operations were ca ...

sabotage campaign. It was one of the largest operations of World War II in its effects on the incapacitation of railroad communications in the logistics of the enemy rear. The operation was conducted through a plan developed by and under the management of the

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at the

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VGC (Chief Military Committee), and was coordinated with the forthcoming offensive of the Soviet troops in the

Smolensk Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow. First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest cities in Russia. It has been a regional capital for most of ...

and

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directions and intended crossing of the Dnieper as part of the Summer–Autumn Campaign of 1943 (1 July – 31 December). The operation included participation of 193

partisan detachment Soviet partisan detachment (1941—1944) (; ), was the main organisational form of the Soviet partisan units. Numerical and structural complement of the partisan detachment varied, with usual number of about 100 to several hundred personnel, organ ...

s and groups totalling more than 210,000 men, women, and children.

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