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291st Rifle Division

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The 291st Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. [1]

17 relations: Central Group of Forces, Gatchina, Krasnogvardeysky District, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Front, Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive, Red Army, Reserve of the Supreme High Command, Saint Petersburg, Siege of Leningrad, Soviet Union, World War II, 1st Ukrainian Front, 21st Army (Soviet Union), 23rd Army (Soviet Union), 3rd Baltic Front, 55th Army (Soviet Union), 67th Army (Soviet Union).

Central Group of Forces

The Central Group of Forces was a formation of the Soviet Armed Forces used to control Soviet troops in Central Europe on two occasions: in Austria and Hungary from 1945-55 and troops stationed in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968.

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Gatchina

Gatchina (Га́тчина) is a town and the administrative center of Gatchinsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia.

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Krasnogvardeysky District, Saint Petersburg

Krasnogvardeysky District (Красногварде́йский райо́н) is a district of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Leningrad Front

The Leningrad Front (Ленинградский фронт) was formed during the 1941 German approach on Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front on August 27, 1941.

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Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive

The Leningrad–Novgorod strategic offensive was a strategic offensive 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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Reserve of the Supreme High Command

The Reserve of the Supreme High Command (Russian: Резерв Верховного Главнокомандования) (also known as Stavka Reserve or RVGK) comprised formations and units which acted as the principal military reserve of the Soviet Red Army during World War II and now of the Russian Armed Forces.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad (also known as the Leningrad Blockade (Блокада Ленинграда, transliteration: Blokada Leningrada) and the 900-Day Siege) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany and the Finnish Army in the north, against Leningrad, historically and currently known as Saint Petersburg, in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II.

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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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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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1st Ukrainian Front

The 1st Ukrainian Front (Russian: Пéрвый Укрáинский фронт; Пе́рший Украї́нський фронт Péršyj Ukraḯns’kyj front) was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.

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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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23rd Army (Soviet Union)

The 23rd Army was a Field Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army.

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3rd Baltic Front

The 3rd Baltic Front (3-й Прибалтийский фронт) was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War.

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55th Army (Soviet Union)

The 55th Army was a field army of the Red Army during World War II.

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67th Army (Soviet Union)

The 67th Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army.

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Redirects here:

291st Rifle Division (Soviet Union).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/291st_Rifle_Division

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