For other military actions at Tallinn, see Battle of Tallinn.
Tallinn offensive
Part of Eastern Front (World War II)
Date
17–26 September 1944
Location
Estonia
Result
Soviet victory
Belligerents
Germany
Estonian conscripts, auxiliary police, border guards and militia
Soviet Union
Estonian pro-independence troops
Commanders and leaders
Ferdinand Schörner
Leonid Govorov
Johan Pitka
Strength
50,000 troops[1] 50 vessels[2]
195,000 troops[3]
2,000 troops[4]
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Eastern Front
Naval warfare
Baltic Sea
Black Sea
Arctic Ocean
1941
Barbarossa
Brest
Białystok–Minsk
1st Baltic
Brody
Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
1st Smolensk
Uman
Odessa
1st Kiev
Tallinn
Leningrad
Sea of Azov
1st Kharkov
1st Crimea
Sevastopol
Rostov
Gorky
Moscow
Finland
Kerch
Chechnya
Air war 1941
1942
Lyuban
Barvenkovo–Lozovaya
Rzhev
Toropets–Kholm
Demyansk
Kholm
2nd Kharkov
Case Blue
Caucasus
Rzhev–Sychyovka
Sinyavino
Stalingrad
Velikiye Luki
Mars
Little Saturn
1943
Iskra
Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh
Voronezh–Kharkov
Polar Star
3rd Kharkov
Gorky Blitz
Kursk
1st Donbas
Belgorod-Kharkov
2nd Donbas
2nd Smolensk
Lenino
Dnieper
Nevel
2nd Kiev
1944
Dnieper–Carpathian
Leningrad–Novgorod
Narva
2nd Crimea
1st Jassy–Kishinev
Karelia
Bagration
Lvov–Sandomierz
Doppelkopf
2nd Jassy–Kishinev
Dukla Pass
2nd Baltic
Belgrade
Debrecen
Petsamo–Kirkenes
Courland
Gumbinnen
Budapest
1945
Vistula–Oder
Western Carpathian
East Prussia
Silesia
Breslau
Solstice
East Pomerania
Lake Balaton
Moravia–Ostrava
Vienna
Bratislava–Brno
Berlin
Prague
Prague uprising
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Leningrad and the Baltics 1941–44
1941
June in Lithuania
Summer War
Strategic defensive
Evacuation of Tallinn
Leningrad
Oranienbaum
Tikhvin
1942
Lyuban
Toropets–Kholm
Demyansk
Kholm
Sinyavino
1943
Iskra
Polar Star
Krasny Bor
Mga
1944
Relief of Leningrad
Narva
Karelian Isthmus
Vilnius
Šiauliai
Kaunas
Tartu
Riga
Tallinn
Moonsund Archipelago
Memel
Courland
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Estonia 1944
Kingisepp-Gdov
Narva
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
March Bombing
Tallinn
Narva
Auvere
Sinimäed
Tartu
Tallinn
Porkuni
Moonsund Archipelago
Tehumardi
The Tallinn offensive (Russian: Таллинская наступательная операция) was a strategic offensive by the Red Army's 2nd Shock and 8th armies and the Baltic Fleet against the German Army Detachment Narwa and Estonian units in mainland Estonia on the Eastern Front of World War II on 17–26 September 1944. Its German counterpart was the abandonment of the Estonian territory in a retreat codenamed Operation Aster (German: Unternehmen Aster).
The Soviet offensive commenced with the Soviet 2nd Shock Army breaching the defence of the II Army Corps along the Emajõgi River in the vicinity of Tartu. The defenders managed to slow the Soviet advance sufficiently for Army Detachment Narwa to be evacuated from mainland Estonia in an orderly fashion.[5] On 18 September, the constitutional Government of Estonia captured the government buildings in Tallinn from the Germans and the city was abandoned by the German forces by 22 September. The Leningrad Front seized the capital and took the rest of mainland Estonia by 26 September 1944.
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^Toomas Hiio (2006). Combat in Estonia in 1944. In: Toomas Hiio, Meelis Maripuu, Indrek Paavle (Eds.). Estonia 1940–1945: Reports of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity. Tallinn. p. 963.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Sean M. Mcateer (2008). 500 Days: The War in Eastern Europe, 1944–1945. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Red Lead Press. p. 273. ISBN 9781434961594.
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