675:, but the few units receiving the orders were unable to break contact with the enemy. Hounded by constant air attacks, Pavlov's forces fled eastward on foot. Most of the 10th Army was not able to cross the river because the bridges over the Shchara were destroyed by air attacks. Further east, the 13th Army, which had received orders to assemble various withdrawing forces into the defence of Minsk, had its headquarters ambushed by German spearheads and its defence plans captured. Pavlov then ordered his 20th Mechanized and 4th Airborne Corps, until then held in reserve, to halt the Germans at
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Cavalry Corps suffered 50% casualties and its commander, Nikitin, was captured. The attempted attack allowed many Soviet forces to escape from the Białystok region towards Minsk, but this brought only temporary relief. With both the German Second and Third Panzer Groups racing towards Minsk on the Western Front's southern and northern flanks, a new encirclement threatened.
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Russian ground troops continue the Soviet Army's organizational arrangement of having military districts that have both a wartime territorial administration role and the capability to generate formation headquarters (HQs) to command fronts. This was emphasized by reports of a Moscow
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On 27 June 1941, the German Second and Third Panzer Groups striking from south and north linked up near Minsk, surrounding and eventually destroying the Soviet 3rd, 10th and 13th Armies, and portions of the 4th Army, in total about 20 divisions, while the remainder of the 4th Army fell back eastwards
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Western Front had been given a brief respite to erect new defences while the Germans reduced the pockets created during the Białystok-Minsk battles. With the Minsk pocket nearly disintegrated, the German Panzer Groups resumed their offensive against the Western Front on 2 July. On the Front's
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Soviet command and control suffered almost complete breakdown. Worst hit was the 4th Army, which failed to establish communications with headquarters both above and below it. Attempts to launch a counter-attack with the 10th Army on 23 June were unsuccessful. That same day the German Third Panzer
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on the morning of 29 June, Yeryomenko was faced with the daunting task of restoring order to the
Western Front's defences. To accomplish this task he had initially only the remnants of the 4th and 13th Armies, of which the former had been reduced to the equivalent of a division in strength. On 1
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Kreizer launched his counter-attack against the German bridgehead at
Borisov on 3 July, but the defenders had been forewarned by radio intercepts and air reconnaissance, and with their superior tactics beat back this isolated Soviet attack. Defeated, Kreizer accordingly retreated behind the
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General I. G. Zakharin. The 49th Army had been formed in August 1941 and was initially assigned to the Reserve Front. On 1 September 1941, the 49th Army comprised the 194th, 220th, and 248th Rifle Divisions, and the 4th Division of the
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were able to break the backbone of Western Front's counter-attack at Grodno. The 6th Cavalry Corps was so badly mauled by this aerial onslaught against its columns that it was unable to deploy for attack.
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as part of a larger Soviet attempt to counter-attack. However, despite some local successes, the offensive failed to breach the German defenses and the offensive was called off 10 September.
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Stiffening Soviet resistance in the centre convinced Hitler to put a temporary halt to the advance towards Moscow and divert the Army Group Centre's armour towards Leningrad and Kiev.
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at the rear of the 21st Army. In early July Stalin relieved Korobkov, the commander of the 4th Army, and had him executed for treason. He was replaced by Colonel
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850:Vasilii Ivanovich Vinogradov
222:Rzhev-Sychyovka-Vyazma Front
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1987:Zemland Group of Forces
1529:Zhukov, Georgy (1974).
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1010:18th Motorised Division
951:XXXXVII Motorised Corps
927:Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen
795:Group of Reserve Armies
613:Ivan Semenovich Nikitin
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389:, under Major Generals
363:Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
1771:Moscow Line of Defence
1592:Glantz, David (2010).
1555:The Road to Stalingrad
1097:Konstantin Rokossovsky
963:SS Motorized Division
959:XXXXVI Motorised Corps
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878:25th Mechanized Corps
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506:20th Mechanized Corps
450:161st Rifle Divisions
423:11th Mechanized Corps
407:14th Mechanized Corps
391:Mikhail Khatskilevich
387:13th Mechanized Corps
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1776:Moscow Reserve Front
1574:on 26 February 2010.
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974:XXIV Motorised Corps
947:18th Panzer Division
931:19th Panzer Division
919:LVII Motorised Corps
880:under Major General
868:under Major General
846:7th Mechanized Corps
838:5th Mechanized Corps
707:NKVD Order no. 00486
571:and Colonel General
537:Operation Barbarossa
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502:63rd (Minsk-Slutsky)
383:6th Mechanized Corps
285:Operation Barbarossa
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1766:Moscow Defence Zone
1557:, 1975, p. 218
1213:General of the Army
1109:32nd Rifle Division
1016:The Smolensk pocket
806:Western Dvina River
764:4th Panzer Division
756:3rd Panzer Division
700:General of the Army
541:Second Panzer Group
535:. German plans for
486:50th Rifle Division
466:37th Rifle Division
405:, supported by the
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352:Operational history
342:North-Western Front
557:Third Panzer Group
490:4th Airborne Corps
403:Aleksandr Korobkov
379:Konstantin Golubev
346:Southwestern Front
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1128:. Meanwhile, the
1083:Assault on Moscow
1071:The Vyazma pocket
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882:Semyon Krivoshein
874:Vasyl Herasymenko
771:Semyon Timoshenko
719:Andrey Yeryomenko
633:Jagdgeschwader 53
609:6th Cavalry Corps
581:Albert Kesselring
565:Günther von Kluge
529:Army Group Centre
512:at Minsk and the
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1141:Battle of Moscow
1126:People's Militia
1006:51st Rifle Corps
923:62nd Rifle Corps
876:, including the
842:Ilya Alekseyenko
814:Filipp Yershakov
760:47th Rifle Corps
746:was rushed from
474:47th Rifle Corps
470:44th Rifle Corps
454:21st Rifle Corps
419:Vasily Kuznetsov
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605:Ivan Boldin
569:Fourth Army
203:Engagements
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1253:References
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1027:blitzkrieg
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854:Ivan Konev
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577:Ninth Army
259:Ivan Konev
240:commanders
233:Commanders
177:Allegiance
112:April 2008
82:newspapers
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1741:Leningrad
1688:June 1941
1674:Ukrainian
1165:33rd Army
1130:33rd Army
1121:49th Army
1117:43rd Army
1093:16th Army
968:captured
965:Das Reich
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783:20th Army
779:19th Army
666:Vawkavysk
617:Białystok
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371:Białystok
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1860:Late war
1801:Voronezh
1736:Karelian
1715:Southern
1695:Northern
1649:Red Army
1161:5th Army
1113:Mozhaisk
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415:3rd Army
399:4th Army
300:Red Army
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1729:Mid-war
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732:Borisov
723:Mogilev
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338:Włodawa
332:to the
306:during
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296:front
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