1942 1943 1944 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.

Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz's tanks had been sent to the Latvian capital, Riga and had halted the advance of Hovhannes Bagramyan's 1st Baltic Front in late July 1944.

As a result of the offensive's development, Stavka shifted the direction of the main attack of the 1st Baltic Front from Kaunas to Šiauliai.

On 27 July the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps, in cooperation with the combined arms units of 51st Army, captured Šiauliai, which had been held by a scratch force led by Hellmuth Mäder.

The Front's mobile detachments entered Tukums and reached the coast of the Gulf of Riga, cutting the land communications of Army Group North.

By 20 August the German forces, by counterattacks in the regions west of Tukums and Sloka and with support from the Kriegsmarine, were able to push the Soviet troops away from the coastline in the southern sector and to restore the sea communications of their formations around Riga.