Such operations typically involved at least one Front – the largest military formation of the Soviet Armed Forces.
During the course of the Second World War the Red Army carried out a number of different military operations.
The scope of these operations, usually known by the major cities around which they took place, was usually termed "operational-strategic" or "strategic", depending on the scale.
strategic operations were combined into seasonal campaigns, because weather and ground conditions affected planning.
[1] However, this issue was not fully resolved, as the work of the commission of Grigory Krivosheyev on Soviet casualties published in 1993 contained a slightly different list of strategic operations.