battle, interwar and Second World War
Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive
Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive was a battle fought in 1944 in what is now Ukraine. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at its recorded location. It was part of the Eastern Front, which ran from 1941 to 1955. The recorded result: Soviet victory.
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Where it sits in the Eastern Front
Record
| Date | 1944 (year precision) to 1944 | |
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| Place | Ukraine 47.430N, 31.800E | |
| Kind | Battle, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | 3rd Ukrainian Front on 1 March 1944: - 559,650 personnel in total; - 8,443 guns and mortars; - 573 operational tanks and self-propelled guns; - 593 combat aircraft | 6th Army on 1 March 1944: Personnel: - 286,297 personnel in total; Anti-tank guns: - 314 operational anti-tank guns (all calibers) in total; - 49 anti-tanks guns in repairs; Armoured vehicles: - 70 operational tanks and assault guns; - 33 operational self-propelled tank destroyers (all types); - 103 operational armoured vehicles in total; - 20 self-propelled tank destroyers (all types) in repairs; - unknown number of tanks and assault guns in repairs |
| Casualties and losses | 3rd Ukrainian Front personnel losses in March 1944: - 16,749 killed; - 1,469 missing; - 62,826 wounded; - 8,035 sick and other non-combat losses; - 89,079 in total | 6th Army losses in March 1944: Troops: - 3,544 killed; - 9,174 missing; - 24,000 wounded and sick; - 36,718 in total; Total irrecoverable equipment losses: - 104 tanks and assault guns; - 352 artillery pieces (all calibers); - 358 mortars; - 7,436 motor vehicles (all types); - 342 prime movers (all types); - 2,275 machine-guns; - 2,500 sub-machine guns; - 7500 tones of ammunition |
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Nearest engagements
- Siege of Pontic Olbia 331 BC, 82 km S
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- Siege of Ochakov 1737, 92 km S
- Second siege of Ochakov 1737, 92 km S
- Naval actions at the siege of Ochakov 1788, 94 km S
In the same war
- Before: Battle of Kovel 1944
- After: March 1944 Narva Offensive 1 March 1944
- All 120 engagements of Eastern Front
Elsewhere in 1944
- Normandy landings France
- Battle of Monte Cassino Italy
- Liberation of Paris France
- Battle of Leyte Gulf Philippines
- Battle of Aachen Germany
Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 301 in present-day Ukraine.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q4084470, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive, revision 1370604179, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.