battle, landmark, interwar and Second World War
Operation Bagration
Operation Bagration was a battle fought in 1944 at Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, in what is now Belarus. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: Soviet victory.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1944 (year precision) to 1944 | |
|---|---|---|
| Place | Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Belarus 54.000N, 29.000E | |
| Kind | Battle, interwar and Second World War | |
| Territorial change | Red Army retakes all of Byelorussian SSR, most of Lithuania and gains foothold in Eastern Poland. | |
| Strength | Initially: 486,493 combat personnel; ~849,000 total; 118 tanks; 452 assault guns; 3,236 field guns and howitzers; 920 aircraft; In total (Soviet sources): 1,036,760 personnel; ~800 tanks; 530 assault guns; 7,760 field guns; 2,320 anti-aircraft guns; ~1,000–1,300 aircraft | Initially: 1,670,300 personnel; 3,841 tanks and 1,977 assault guns; 32,718 guns, rocket launchers and mortars; 7,799 aircraft; In total (Frieser): ~2,500,000 personnel; ~6,000 tanks and assault guns; ~45,000 guns, rocket launchers and mortars; ~8,000 aircraft |
| Casualties and losses | Zaloga: 300,000–375,000 killed, missing or captured; ~150,000–225,000 killed or missing; ~150,000 captured; Frieser: 399,102; 26,397 killed; 109,776 wounded; 262,929 missing and captured; Glantz and House: ~450,000 combat casualties; Isayev: ~500,000 combat casualties; Soviet sources: 539,480 killed, missing or captured; ~381,000 killed; 158,480 captured | Glantz and House: 770,888 (including ~550,000 combat casualties); ~180,000 killed or missing; ~340,000–590,848 wounded or sick; 2,957 tanks and assault guns; 2,447 guns; 822 aircraft |
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The ground today


The recorded site stands at about 0 m; within 10.0 km the ground runs from 0 to 199 m, 199 m of relief, hilly country and today it is 48% tree cover, 30% wetland, 12% grassland.
Elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, Airbus); land cover from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0), within about 5 km of the recorded site. Computed, not recorded.Nearest engagements
- Battle of Holowczyn 1708, 8.6 km NW
- Night operation 1942, 33 km N
- Battle of Shepeleviche 1654, 39 km E
- Battle of Berezina 1920, 41 km NW
- Battle of Berezina 1812, 55 km NW
In the same war
- Before: Battle of Chambois 18 August 1944
- After: Liberation of Paris 19 August 1944
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1944
- Battle of Leyte Gulf Philippines
- Battle of the Philippine Sea Japan
- Battle of Peleliu Palau
- Operation Ichi-Go China
- Battle of Saipan United States
Combat data (CDB90)
| Attacker: SOV 3RD GDS MECH CORPS | Defender: GER 299TH INF DIV(+) | |
| Strength | 16,100 | 8,500 |
| Casualties | 670 (4.2%) | 4,795 (56.4%) |
| Mission accomplishment, 1 to 10 | 7 | 4 |
| Outcome | attacker won | |
| Duration | 2 days | |
| Front width | 10 km | 10 km |
| Attacker advanced | 160 km | |
From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 504), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.
Operation Bagration is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 116 in present-day Belarus.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q151052, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Bagration, revision 1382624394, read 2026-11-15, 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.