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289th Rifle Division

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The 289th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed twice. [1]

23 relations: Battle of Kiev (1941), Belomorsk, Belomorsky Military District, Continuation War, Dnieper, Finland, Finnish III Corps (Continuation War), Foreign Armies East, Karelia, Kiev, Lake Topozero, Lubny, National Archives and Records Administration, Operation Barbarossa, Red Army, Schutzstaffel, Southwestern Front (Soviet Union), Soviet Union, Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, World War II, 26th Army (Soviet Union), 32nd Army (Soviet Union), 4th Rifle Corps.

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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Belomorsk

Belomorsk (Беломо́рск; Šuomua; Belomorsk/Sorokka) is a town and the administrative center of Belomorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Onega Bay on the shore of the White Sea.

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Belomorsky Military District

The Belomorsky Military District (Беломорский военный округ) was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, active from in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Civil War and just after the Second World War.

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Continuation War

The Continuation War was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany, as co-belligerents, against the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1941 to 1944, during World War II.

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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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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Finnish III Corps (Continuation War)

The III Corps (III Armeijakunta) was a unit of the Finnish Army during the Continuation War.

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Foreign Armies East

Foreign Armies East, or Fremde Heere Ost (FHO), was a military intelligence organization of Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH), the Supreme High Command of the German Army during World War II.

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Karelia

Karelia (Karelian, Finnish and Estonian: Karjala; Карелия, Kareliya; Karelen), the land of the Karelian peoples, is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden.

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Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv (Kyiv; Kiyev; Kyjev) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper.

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Lake Topozero

Lake Topozero is a large freshwater lake in the Republic of Karelia, northwestern part of Russia.

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Lubny

Lubny (Лубни́) is a city in Poltava Oblast (province) of central Ukraine.

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National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Рабоче-крестьянская Красная армия (РККА), Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya (RKKA), frequently shortened in Russian to Красная aрмия (КА), Krasnaya armiya (KA), in English: Red Army, also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch – Red Horde, Army of Work) was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylized as with Armanen runes;; literally "Protection Squadron") was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during 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 Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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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.

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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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26th Army (Soviet Union)

The 26th Army (Russian: 26-я армия 26-ya armiya) was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, active from 1941.

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32nd Army (Soviet Union)

The 32nd Army was a formation of the Soviet Army during World War II.

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4th Rifle Corps

The 4th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army, active from the 1920s.

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Redirects here:

289th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Grivnik Brigade, Grivnik brigade.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/289th_Rifle_Division

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