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Viktor Zholudev

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Viktor Grigoryevich Zholudev (Russian: Виктор Григорьевич Жолудев; 22 March 1905 – 21 July 1944) was a Red Army major general and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. [1]

82 relations: Alexander Gorbatov, Alexander Rodimtsev, Army Group South, Battle of Kiev (1941), Battle of Kursk, Battle of Lake Khasan, Battle of Smolensk (1943), Battle of Stalingrad, Battles of Khalkhin Gol, Berezina River, Białystok, Bobruysk Offensive, Bryansk, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byerazino, Central Front, Chinese Eastern Railway, Demyansk Pocket, Don River (Russia), Drut River, Grodno Region, Hero of the Soviet Union, Irkutsk, Ivan Zatevakhin, Kazan, Kiev, Kiev Fortified Region, Klichaw, Konotop, Krasny Oktyabr (steel plant), Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany), Log driving, Major general, Mikhail Kirponos, Military academies in Russia, Minsk, Moscow, Moscow Military District, Moskva River, North Western Operational Command, Olza (river), Operation Bagration, Operation Barbarossa, Operation Kutuzov, Operation Uranus, Order of Kutuzov, Order of Lenin, Order of Suvorov, Order of the Red Banner, Red Army, ..., Russian Airborne Troops, Russian Empire, Russian language, Saint Petersburg, Seym River, Sino-Soviet conflict (1929), Southwestern Front (Soviet Union), Stalingrad Front, Svislach, Transbaikal Military District, Uglich, Vawkavysk, Volga Military District, Volga River, Volgograd Tractor Plant, World War II, Yaroslavl Governorate, 138th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 1st Airborne Corps (Soviet Union), 20th Guards Army, 212th Airborne Brigade, 2nd Panzer Army, 2nd Shock Army, 308th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 323rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 36th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 37th Guards Rifle Division, 3rd Airborne Corps (Soviet Union), 3rd Army (Soviet Union), 40th Army (Soviet Union), 62nd Army (Soviet Union), 63rd Army (Soviet Union). Expand index (32 more) »

Alexander Gorbatov

Alexander Vasilyevich Gorbatov (Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Горба́тов) (21 March 1891 – 7 December 1973) was a Russian and Soviet officer who served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War and as a Colonel-General in the Red Army during the Second World War.

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Alexander Rodimtsev

Alexander Ilich Rodimtsev (1905–1977) was a colonel-general in the Soviet Red Army during World War II and twice won the Hero of the Soviet Union award (in 1937 and 1945).

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Army Group South

Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) was the name of two German Army Groups during World War II.

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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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Battle of Kursk

The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk (south-west of Moscow) in the Soviet Union, during July and August 1943.

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Battle of Lake Khasan

The Battle of Lake Khasan (July 29 – August 11, 1938), also known as the Changkufeng Incident (Russian: Хасанские бои, Chinese and Japanese: 張鼓峰事件; Chinese Pinyin: Zhānggǔfēng Shìjiàn; Japanese Romaji: Chōkohō Jiken) in China and Japan, was an attempted military incursion by Manchukuo (Japanese) into the territory claimed by the Soviet Union.

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Battle of Smolensk (1943)

The second Battle of Smolensk (7 August–2 October 1943) was a Soviet strategic offensive operation conducted by the Red Army as part of the Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1943.

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Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia.

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Battles of Khalkhin Gol

The Battles of Khalkhyn Gol were the decisive engagements of the undeclared Soviet–Japanese border conflicts fought among the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Japan and Manchukuo in 1939.

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Berezina River

The Berezina or Biarezina (Бярэ́зіна) is a river in Belarus and a tributary of the Dnieper River.

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Białystok

Białystok (Bielastok, Balstogė, Belostok, Byalistok) is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship.

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Bobruysk Offensive

The Bobruysk Offensive (Бобруйская наступательная операция) was part of the Belorussian Strategic Offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944, commonly known as Operation Bagration.

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Bryansk

Bryansk (p) is a city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located southwest of Moscow.

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Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; Belorusskaya SSR.), also commonly referred to in English as Byelorussia, was a federal unit of the Soviet Union (USSR).

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Byerazino

Berazino (Bierazino), or Berezino (Березино́, Berezyna, Berezinas), also known as Biarezan (Бярэзань, Berezin), is a town on the Berezina River in Minsk Region of Belarus.

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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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Chinese Eastern Railway

The Chinese Eastern Railway or CER,, Dōngqīng Tiělù; Китайско-Восточная железная дорога or КВЖД, Kitaysko-Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga or KVZhD), also known as the Chinese Far East Railway and North Manchuria Railway, is the historical name for a railway across Manchuria (northeastern China).

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Demyansk Pocket

The Demyansk Pocket (Festung Demjansk or Kessel von Demjansk; Демя́нский котёл) was the name given to the pocket of German troops encircled by the Red Army around Demyansk, south of Leningrad, during World War II on the Eastern Front.

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Don River (Russia)

The Don (p) is one of the major rivers of Russia and the 5th longest river in Europe.

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Drut River

The Drut or Druts (Druć) is a river in Belarus, a right tributary of Dnieper.

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Grodno Region

Grodno/Hrodna Region (Гродзенская вобласць, Hrodzienskaja vobłasć; Гродненская область, Grodnenskaya oblast) is one of the regions of Belarus.

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Hero of the Soviet Union

The title Hero of the Soviet Union (translit) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.

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Irkutsk

Irkutsk (p) is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and one of the largest cities in Siberia.

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Ivan Zatevakhin

Ivan Ivanovich Zatevakhin (Russian: Иван Иванович Затевахин; 17 July 1901 – 6 April 1957) was a Red Army Lieutenant general who commanded the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) from 1944 to 1946.

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Kazan

Kazan (p; Казан) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

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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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Kiev Fortified Region

The Kiev Fortified Region (Russian abbreviation КиУР, УР-1, 1-й укреплённый район, 1-й укрепрайон) is a fortified district in the Kiev area, a complex of defensive structures, consisting of permanent and field fortifications and engineering obstacles.

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Klichaw

Klichaw (Клічаў; Кличев, Kliczew) is a town in Mogilev Region, Eastern Belarus.

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Konotop

Konotop (or; Конотоп) is a city in Sumy Oblast in northern Ukraine.

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Krasny Oktyabr (steel plant)

Volgogradskiy Metallurgicheskiy Zavod Krasny Oktyabr (Zakrytoye aktsionernoye obshchestvo "Volgogradskiy metallurgicheskiy zavod "Krasny Oktyabr") is a Russian closed joint-stock company which maintains the Krasny Oktyabr factory, one of the largest Russian metallurgy facilities.

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Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany)

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) (Міжнародний аеропорт "Київ" імені Ігоря Сікорського (Жуляни)) is one of the two passenger airports of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, the other being Boryspil International Airport.

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Log driving

Log driving is a means of moving logs (sawn tree trunks) from a forest to sawmills and pulp mills downstream using the current of a river.

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Major general

Major general (abbreviated MG, Maj. Gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

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Mikhail Kirponos

Mikhail Petrovich Kirponos (Михаи́л Петро́вич Кирпоно́с, Михайло Петрович Кирпонос, Mykhailo Petrovych Kyrponos; 12 January 1892 – 20 September 1941) was a Soviet Ukrainian general of the Red Army during World War II.

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Military academies in Russia

Russia has a number of military academies of different specialties.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislach and the Nyamiha Rivers.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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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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Moskva River

The Moskva River (река Москва, Москва-река, Moskva-reka) is a river of western Russia.

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North Western Operational Command

The North Western Operational Command (SZOK) is a command of the Belarus Ground Forces.

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Olza (river)

(Olše, Olsa) is a river in Poland and the Czech Republic, the right tributary of the Oder River.

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Operation Bagration

Operation Bagration (Операция Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, (Белорусская наступательная операция «Багратион», Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya Operatsiya Bagration) a military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern Front of World War II.

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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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Operation Kutuzov

Operation Kutuzov was the first of the two counteroffensives launched by the Red Army as part of the Kursk Strategic Offensive Operation.

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Operation Uranus

Operation Uranus (romanised: Operatsiya "Uran") was the codename of the Soviet 19–23 November 1942 strategic operation in World War II which led to the encirclement of the German Sixth Army, the Third and Fourth Romanian armies, and portions of the German Fourth Panzer Army.

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Order of Kutuzov

The Order of Kutuzov («Орден Кутузова» "Orden Kutuzova") is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named after famous Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745–1813).

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Order of Lenin

The Order of Lenin (Orden Lenina), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930.

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Order of Suvorov

The Order of Suvorov (Russian Орден Суворова) is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named in honor of Russian Field Marshal Count Alexander Suvorov (1729–1800).

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Order of the Red Banner

The Order of the Red Banner (transl) was the first Soviet military decoration.

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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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Russian Airborne Troops

The Russian Airborne Troops or VDV (from "Vozdushno-desantnye voyska Rossii", Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска России, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) is a military branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Russian language

Russian (rússkiy yazýk) is an East Slavic language, which is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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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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Seym River

Seym (also transcripted as Seim and Sejm, in) is a river in Russia and Ukraine.

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Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)

The Sino-Soviet conflict of 1929 (Конфликт на Китайско-Восточной железной дороге) was an armed conflict between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang of the Republic of China over the Chinese Eastern Railway (also known as CER).

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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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Stalingrad Front

The Stalingrad Front was a front, a military unit encompassing several armies, of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.

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Svislach

Svislach (Свiслач, pronounced; Свислочь, Svisloch, Świsłocz, סיסלעוויטש, Svisločius) is a city in the South-West of Grodno Region, Belarus, an administrative center of the Svislach district.

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Transbaikal Military District

The Transbaikal Military District (Забайкальский военный округ) was a military district of first the Soviet Armed Forces and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia.

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Uglich

Uglich (p) is a historic town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, which stands on the Volga River.

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Vawkavysk

Vawkavysk (Ваўкавы́ск, Vaŭkavýsk; Волковыск; Wołkowysk; Valkaviskas; וואלקאוויסק; names in other languages) is one of the oldest towns in southwestern Belarus and the capital of the Vawkavysk district.

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Volga Military District

The Volga Military District (PriVO) was a military district of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation that existed from 1918 to 1989 and 1992 to 2001.

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Volga River

The Volga (p) is the longest river in Europe.

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Volgograd Tractor Plant

The Volgograd Tractor Plant (Волгоградский тракторный завод, Volgogradski traktorni zavod, or ВгТЗ, VgTZ), formerly the Dzerzhinskiy Tractor Factory or the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, is a heavy equipment factory located in Volgograd, Russia.

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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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Yaroslavl Governorate

Yaroslavl Governorate (Ярославская губерния, Yaroslavskaya guberniya) was an administrative division (a guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in European Russia in the Upper Volga Region.

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138th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 138th Rifle Division began service as a standard Red Army rifle division, was converted to serve for two years as a mountain rifle division, then back to a rifle division. The division played a leading role in defending the Barricades ordnance factory in the Battle of Stalingrad, for which it was raised to Guards status as the 70th Guards Rifle Division. A new 138th was raised a few months later and fought through Ukraine and the Carpathian Mountains of Czechoslovakia from August 1943 to May 1945.

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1st Airborne Corps (Soviet Union)

The 1st Airborne Corps was an airborne corps of the Red Army during World War II.

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20th Guards Army

The 20th Guards Army (originally designated as the 4th Tank Army, 4th Guards Tank Army in 1945, 4th Guards Mechanised Army in 1946, and the 20th Guards Army in 1960 within the Soviet Red Army) is a field army.

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212th Airborne Brigade

The 212th Airborne Brigade was an airborne brigade of the Soviet Airborne Troops, formed twice.

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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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2nd Shock Army

The 2nd Shock Army (2-я Ударная армия) was a field army of the Soviet Union during the Second World War.

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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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323rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 323rd Rifle Division was formed as a standard Red Army rifle division late in the summer of 1941, as part of the massive buildup of new Soviet fighting formations at that time.

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36th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 36th Rifle Division was a division of the Red Army and then the Soviet Army.

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37th Guards Rifle Division

The 37th Guards Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army which fought during World War II.

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3rd Airborne Corps (Soviet Union)

The 3rd Airborne Corps was an airborne corps of the Red Army in World War II.

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3rd Army (Soviet Union)

The 3rd Army was a Soviet Red Army field army during World War II.

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40th Army (Soviet Union)

The 40th Army of the Soviet Union's Soviet Army was an army-level command that participated in World War II from 1941 to 1945 and was reformed specifically for the Soviet War in Afghanistan from 1979 to circa 1990.

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62nd Army (Soviet Union)

The 62nd Order of Lenin Army (62-я армия) was a field army established by the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.

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63rd Army (Soviet Union)

The 63rd Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was formed on 10 July 1942, by the order of Headquarters Red Army Supreme Command № 994110, by renaming Stavka's 5th Reserve Army.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zholudev

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