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117th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

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The Soviet 117th Rifle Division was a rifle division that served during the Second World War. [1]

28 relations: Battle of Kiev (1941), Belorussian Military District, BT tank, Central Front, Dnieper, Gomel, Ivanovo, Kalinin Front, List of infantry divisions of the Soviet Union 1917–57, Moscow Military District, Northwestern Front, Southwestern Front (Soviet Union), Soviet Army, T-26, Volga–Urals Military District, World War II, Zhlobin, 1st Baltic Front, 1st Belorussian Front, 21st Army (Soviet Union), 22nd Army (Russia), 2nd Panzer Army, 308th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 3rd Shock Army, 43rd Army (Soviet Union), 4th Shock Army, 63rd Rifle Corps, 69th Army (Soviet Union).

Battle of Kiev (1941)

The First Battle of Kiev was the German name for the operation that resulted in a very large encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II.

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Belorussian Military District

The Byelorussian Military District (Белорусский военный округ, Belarusskiy Voyenyi Okrug; alternative spelling Belorussian) was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces.

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BT tank

The BT tanks (translit, lit. "fast moving tank" or "high-speed tank") were a series of Soviet light tanks produced in large numbers between 1932 and 1941.

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Central Front

The Central Front was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War.

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Dnieper

The Dnieper River, known in Russian as: Dnepr, and in Ukrainian as Dnipro is one of the major rivers of Europe, rising near Smolensk, Russia and flowing through Russia, Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.

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Gomel

Gomel (also Homieĺ, Homiel, Homel or Homyel’; Belarusian: Го́мель, Łacinka: Homiel,, Russian: Го́мель) is the administrative centre of Gomel Region and with 526,872 inhabitants (2015 census) the second-most populous city of Belarus.

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Ivanovo

Ivanovo (p) is a city and the administrative center of Ivanovo Oblast, Russia, located from Moscow and approximately from Yaroslavl, Vladimir, and Kostroma.

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Kalinin Front

The Kalinin Front was a major formation of the Red Army active in the Eastern Front of World War II.

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List of infantry divisions of the Soviet Union 1917–57

This is a list of infantry divisions of the Soviet Union 1917–1957.

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Moscow Military District

The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

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Northwestern Front

The Northwestern Front (Russian: Северо-Западный фронт) was a military formation of the Red Army during the Winter War and World War II.

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Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)

The Southwestern Front was a name given to a Front (or Army group sized military formation) by the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War, by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic during the Russian Civil War, and by the Red Army during the Second World War.

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Soviet Army

The Soviet Army (SA; Советская Армия, Sovetskaya Armiya) is the name given to the main land-based branch of the Soviet Armed Forces between February 1946 and December 1991, when it was replaced with the Russian Ground Forces, although it was not taken fully out of service until 25 December 1993.

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T-26

The T-26 tank was a Soviet light infantry tank used during many conflicts of the 1930s and in World War II.

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Volga–Urals Military District

The Volga–Ural Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, formed on 1 September 2001 by the amalgamation of the Volga Military District and the Ural Military District.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zhlobin

Zhlobin (Жло́бін; Жло́бин, Żłobin, Žlobinas) is a city in the Zhlobin District of Gomel Region of Belarus, on the Dnieper river.

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1st Baltic Front

The First Baltic Front was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War.

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1st Belorussian Front

The 1st Belorussian Front (Першы Беларускі фронт, alternative spellings are 1st Byelorussian Front and 1st Belarusian Front) was a major formation of the Soviet Army during World War II, being equivalent to a Western army group.

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21st Army (Soviet Union)

The Soviet 21st Army was a field army of the Red Army during World War II.

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22nd Army (Russia)

The 22nd Army was a field army of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Moscow Military District.

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2nd Panzer Army

The 2nd Panzer Army (2.) was a German armoured formation during World War II, formed from the 2nd Panzer Group on October 5, 1941.

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308th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 308th Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Soviet Red Army during World War II.

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3rd Shock Army

The 3rd Shock Army (Третья ударная армия) was a field army of the Red Army formed during the Second World War.

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43rd Army (Soviet Union)

The 43rd Army was a Red Army field army of World War II that served on the Eastern Front.

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4th Shock Army

4th Shock Army was a Combined Arms Army of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II.

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63rd Rifle Corps

The 63rd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army.

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69th Army (Soviet Union)

The 69th Army (69-я армия) was a field army established by the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/117th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)

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