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See also Category:Military operations involving Russia. For military involvements of other former Soviet republics, see: Category:Military operations involving Estonia; Category:Military operations involving Lithuania; Category:Military operations involving Ukraine
Soviet strategy, the top end of military art, was concerned with gaining the strategic initiative which would then allow the Red Army to stage further military operations to liberate Soviet territory lost in 1941 and 1942. To do this, the Stavka decided to achieve the goal through defensive means.
Such operations typically involved at least one Front – the largest military formation of the Soviet Armed Forces. The operations could be defensive, offensive, a withdrawal, an encirclement, or a siege – always conducted by at least two Services of the armed forces (the ground forces and the air forces) and often included the naval forces.
Battles and operations of the Soviet Union in World War II — primarily on the Eastern Front in the Soviet–German War. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
The central sector of Soviet operations was against the long front of Fourth Army, which was under the overall command of Kurt von Tippelskirch. Soviet plans envisaged the bulk of it, the XXXIX Panzer Corps and XII Corps, being encircled while pinned down by attacks from the 2nd Belorussian Front in the parallel Mogilev offensive operation.
The Role of Intelligence in Soviet Military Strategy in World War II. Novato, California: Presidio Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-89141-380-6. Soviet Military Operational Art: In Pursuit of Deep Battle. London; Portland, Oregon: F. Cass. 1991. ISBN 978-0-7146-4077-8. From the Don to the Dnepr: Soviet Offensive Operations, December 1942–August 1943 ...
The Soviet counter-attack delivered as part of the general Donbas–Rostov strategic defensive operation (29 September 1941 – 16 November 1941) also forced Rundstedt's Army Group South to order his 1st Panzer Army to manoeuvre in order to be better placed to counter any further Soviet thrusts in the Romanian sector of the front, and also to ...
The Yelnya offensive (August 30 – September 8, 1941) was a military operation by the Soviet Army during the Battle of Smolensk during Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which began the German-Soviet War.