The Gorodok offensive (Russian: Городокская наступательная операция) was an offensive operation by the Red Army's 1st Baltic Front against German forces of the 3rd Panzer Army around the town of Gorodok in northeastern Belorussia. The offensive took place between 13 and 31 December 1943 on the Eastern Front of World War II and was part of the Belorussian strategic offensive.
The offensive had the goal of eliminating the Gorodok salient, encircling and destroying the 3rd Panzer Army, and capture Gorodok and Vitebsk. Although Soviet forces managed to eliminate the Gorodok salient, they failed to destroy the 3rd Panzer Army or capture Vitebsk.
The Gorodokoffensive (Russian: Городокская наступательная операция) was an offensive operation by the Red Army's 1st Baltic Front against German forces...
a renewed offensive on Vitebsk the 83rd and 2nd Guards Corps were concentrated on 4th Shock's left wing, deployed along the Sirotino–Gorodok road between...
armies could regroup and refit prior to another offensive to take Vitebsk as well as the town of Gorodok to the north. The forces of his Front, including...
Byelorussian Strategic Offensive (1943), the army participated in the Nevel Offensive, GorodokOffensive, and the Polotsk–Vitebsk Offensive. During the second...
was as part of the Nevel–Gorodokoffensive operation in October–November 1943. Nevel was taken at the start of the offensive on 6 October 1943. The Kalinin...
of the Gorodok salient, encircle and destroy his grouping by concentric attacks in the direction of Bychikha Station, and then capture Gorodok and Vitebsk...
to bombard the town and then launched a three-pronged attack, the Gorodokoffensive. from the ground. The German garrison was overwhelmed, and by 24 December...
took part in the Orel offensive. In September it took part in the Bryansk offensive. In December it took part in the Gorodokoffensive. For distinction in...
of Suvorov as a result of the fighting north of Gorodok in December. Early during the summer offensive against Army Group Center, now as part of 3rd Belorussian...
on 16 October, led the army in the Nevel and Gorodokoffensives. After the inconclusive Gorodokoffensive, Shvetsov was relieved of command on 30 December...
that the slowness of the offensive was largely due to deteriorating strength of his forces. Following the battle for Gorodok his Army continued to face...
Operation Kutuzov, in October 1943 - in Bryansk offensive, and in December 1943 - in Gorodokoffensive. In January–July 1944, the 1st Guards Rifle Division...
When he arrived to take command, the division was involved in the Gorodokoffensive, a series of unsuccessful attacks towards Vitebsk from the east. The...
43rd Armies in attacks towards Vitebsk, the Nevel Offensive, and the GorodokOffensive, then until early April 1944 defended Nevel. From April 1944 to March...
Germans managed to keep in their hands the cities of Turov, Stolin, David-Gorodok. The poorly prepared attempt of the 47th Army to seize Kovel, a small Volyn...
Army participated in the Front's Smolensk, Nevel, Gorodok, Vitebsk, Belarusian and Baltic Offensives. In February 1945, near Koenigsberg, it came under...
Front, attacking south towards Gorodok and won the name of that city as a battle honor. By the start of the offensive against Army Group Center in the...
Kosho on December 18. Gorodok finally fell to 11th Guards Army on December 24. On the same day 4th Shock continued the offensive. The first objective of...
participated in the Smolensk operation, the Nevel Offensive, and the winter 1943–1944 Polotsk and Gorodokoffensives over eastern Belarus. In June 1944 the corps...
impatient Marshal Zhukov to wheel southward to capture Sinyavino and the Gorodok settlements. But by now the victorious forces were exhausted, having suffered...
southward to capture Sinyavino and the Gorodok settlements. By this time the victorious forces were exhausted and the offensive was halted on January 31. During...
the 177th and went into action on November 11 along an axis toward the Gorodok No. 1 settlement, which had been turned into a strongpoint. The attack...
near several other localities in Belgorod Oblast, more precisely Bogun-Gorodok [ru; uk], Gorkovsky, the hamlet of Lozovaya Rudka, Shchetinovka and Tsapovka [ru]...
before a withdrawal. As part of this, an attack was made on the village of Gorodok. Before the attack began, 6 RAF DH.9s, 5 DH.9As and two Sopwith Snipes...
Sverdlovsk was located within a military base known as Compound 19 (19th gorodok, Russian:19-й городок) which itself was created between 1947 and 1949....
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