campaign, interwar and Second World War
Rovno–Lutsk Offensive
Rovno–Lutsk Offensive was a campaign fought in 1944 at Polesia, in what is now Russia. 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) | |
|---|---|---|
| Place | Polesia, Russia 50.617N, 26.250E | |
| Kind | Campaign, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | Personnel strength on 1 February 1944: XIII Army Corps: 45,379 personnel; LIX Army Corps: 21,898 personnel; VII Army Corps: 51,400 personnel; AFV and AT guns status on 30 January 1944: XIII Army Corps: - 48 operational StuG's; - 39 operational heavy AT guns; LIX Army Corps: - 13 operational tanks; - 3 operational StuG's; - 6 operational self-propelled AT guns; - 29 operational heavy AT guns | On 27 January 1944: - 174,000 personnel; - 3,470 guns and mortars; - 141 tanks and self-propelled guns |
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Nearest engagements
- Battle of Rivne 1944, same recorded site
- Przebraże Defence 1943, 58 km NW
- Defense of Huta Stepańska and Wyrka 1943, 60 km N
- Battle of Berestechko 1651, 85 km W
- Battle of Kostiuchnówka 1916, 88 km NW
In the same war
- Before: Battle of Rivne 2 February 1944
- After: Narva Offensive February 1944 15 February 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: GER 1ST PZ GROUP | Defender: SOV SOUTHWESTERN AG(-) | |
| Strength | 132,000 | 150,000 |
| Casualties | 3,960 (3.0%) | 88,000 (58.7%) |
| Mission accomplishment, 1 to 10 | 8 | 3 |
| Outcome | attacker won | |
| Duration | 2 days | |
| Front width | 65 km | 65 km |
| Attacker advanced | 120 km | |
From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 488), 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.
Rovno–Lutsk Offensive is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 425 in present-day Russia.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q4395266, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Rovno–Lutsk offensive, revision 1370728979, 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.