Šiauliai offensive
| Šiauliai offensive | |||||||
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| Part of Operation Bagration / Eastern Front | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Germany | Soviet Union | ||||||
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Georg-Hans Reinhardt (Third Panzer Army) Paul Laux (Sixteenth Army) |
Hovhannes Bagramyan (1st Baltic Front) | ||||||
The Šiauliai offensive (Russian: Шяуляйская операция) was an operation of the Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front, commanded by General Hovhannes Bagramyan, conducted from 5 July to 29 August 1944, during the Second World War. It was part of the third phase of the Belorussian strategic offensive operation (also known as Operation Bagration), and drove German troops from much of Lithuania, with the main tactical objective of the city of Šiauliai (Russian: Шяуля́й, German: Schaulen).