Zemland Group of Forces

Zemland Group of Forces
Königsberg defenses and Soviet attack from April 6 to 9, 1945
ActiveFebruary 24 – April 26, 1945
Country Soviet Union
Branch Red Army
TypeOperational Group Command
SizeUp to five Combined arms Armies; one Air Army
Part of3rd Belorussian Front
EngagementsBattle of Königsberg
Samland Offensive
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Army Gen. Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan

The Zemland Group of Forces was a front-sized operational group of the Red Army during the Second World War which saw service for two months in the Sambia Peninsula of East Prussia in 1945. It blockaded the city of Königsberg in March and then took it by storm in early April, after which it mopped up the various isolated German forces in the peninsula until it was disbanded on April 26.