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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.
On the third anniversary in 1947, the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn was created. [10] In 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rebutted claims by Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova that the Tallinn Offensive was a liberation, saying that it was a false presentation of the "liberation of European peoples from fascist enslavement ...
Narva offensive (1–4 March 1944) Narva offensive (18–24 March 1944) Crimean strategic offensive 8 April – 12 May 1944; Perekop–Sevastopol offensive 8 April – 12 May 1944 Kerch–Sevastopol offensive 11 April – 12 May 1944. First Jassy–Kishinev offensive 8 April – 6 June 1944; First Battle of Târgu Frumos : 9–12 April 1944
The medieval Old Town and Town Hall of German-occupied Tallinn, Estonia in ruins after Soviet aerial bombing attacks (1944).. The Baltic offensive, also known as the Baltic strategic offensive, [6] was the military campaign between the northern Fronts of the Red Army and the German Army Group North in the Baltic States during the autumn of 1944.
Battle of Porkuni (Estonian: Porkuni lahing) was the largest engagement between Estonians serving in the Red Army and Estonian pro-independence and Waffen-SS units. It took place on 21 September 1944 [2] between Lake Porkuni and the Sauvälja village about seven kilometres northeast of the town of Tamsalu [3] during the Leningrad Front's Tallinn Offensive Operation (17 September 1944 – 26 ...
Generalbezirk Estland was the last of the four districts to be formally established on 5 December 1941. [1] It was organized on the territory of German-occupied Estonia, which had until then been under the military administration of the Wehrmacht's Army Group North. The capital of Generalbezirk Estland was Tallinn (Reval). [2]
Battle of Tallinn may refer to: Battle at the Iron Gate, a possible 1032 Novgorod failed naval attack near the Estonian stronghold. Battle of Lindanise, a 1219 Danish conquest of the Estonian stronghold in the Livonian Crusade. Siege of Tallinn, a 1221 failed Estonian siege of the Danish stronghold in the Livonian Crusade.
The Battle of Tannenberg Line (German: Die Schlacht um die Tannenbergstellung; Russian: Битва за линию «Танненберг») or the Battle of the Blue Hills (Estonian: Sinimägede lahing) was a military engagement between the German Army Detachment Narwa and the Soviet Leningrad Front.