Operation Bagration was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation, a military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern
The Soviet operation was named after the Georgian prince Pyotr Bagration (1765–1812), a general of the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
Field Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky and General Ivan Chernyakhovsky interrogate General Alfons Hitter (standing) after the battle of Vitebsk.
Two destroyed Panzer IV tanks belonging to the 20th Panzer Division, June 1944
Soviet soldiers in Polotsk, 4 July 1944
The Mogilev offensive was part of the Belorussian strategic offensive – commonly known as Operation Bagration – of the Red Army on the Eastern Front of World War II in the summer of 1944. Its goals we
Soviet troops forcing the Dnieper
Troops of the 49th Army during the liberation of Mogilev on 28 June 1944