Kalinkovichi–Mozyr Operation
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The Kalinkovichi–Mozyr Offensive Operation (January 8–30, 1944) was an offensive operation of the Soviet troops of the Belorussian Front in the Eastern Front of World War II.
Operation plan
In the Winter Campaign of 1943–1944, the Soviet Command set the goal of defeating German troops in the eastern regions of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and liberating Minsk. The battles in November–December of 1943 (Gomel–Rechitsa Operation, Vitebsk Operation of 1943) showed that without a decisive strengthening of the grouping of Soviet troops in this direction, these tasks cannot be solved. Therefore, the new plans were brought to more realistic goals. In particular, on January 2, 1944, the Stavka of the Supreme High Command set the following task for the Belorussian Front (commander Army General Konstantin Rokossovskiy): to defeat the enemy group in the Mozyr Region, create a bridgehead for an offensive in the direction of Bobruysk–Minsk, and with part of the forces to advance along the Pripyat River to Luninets, to achieve the maximum possible advance to envelop the enemy group in Bobruysk.
The operation involved the 61st Army (commander Lieutenant General Pavel Belov), the 65th Army (commander Lieutenant General Pavel Batov), and a significant portion of the 16th Air Army (commander Colonel General Sergey Rudenko). For the operation, Rokossovskiy decisively strengthened units of both armies at the expense of other troops of the front – the 65th Army had 10 rifle divisions and the 1st Guards Tank Corps (126 tanks and self–propelled artillery units), the 61st Army had 6 rifle divisions and a tank brigade. The 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps and the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps were transferred to the operational subordination of the commander of the 61st Army. Almost all of the front's strike artillery was also concentrated there: a breakthrough artillery corps, two breakthrough artillery divisions, one mortar division, and two separate artillery brigades. The number of Soviet troops amounted to 232,600 people. Partisans from the Gomel, Polese and Minsk Partisan Units were also involved in the operation.
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