Operation Concert
콘체르트 작전
A massive railway sabotage operation conducted by Soviet partisans behind German lines from September 19 to late October 1943, continuing the Rail War campaign. Involving 193 partisan formations (over 120,000 personnel) across Belorussia, the Baltics, Karelia, Crimea, and the Leningrad and Kalinin regions, it destroyed some 150,000 rails and cut German rail capacity by 35–40 percent. Coordinated with Red Army offensives toward Smolensk and Gomel and the Dnieper crossing, the operation seriously disrupted German force redeployment, though a planned winter phase was cancelled due to shortages of explosives.
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- Wikipedia (EN) basic facts: dates, scale (193 formations, 210,000+ personnel), coordination with Stavka and Smolensk–Gomel offensives
- Wikipedia (RU) detailed operational data: 150,000 rails destroyed, 1,041 trains, 72 bridges; 35–40% reduction in German rail capacity; 900 km front, 400 km depth; cancellation due to explosive shortages
- rbth.com independent English-language confirmation: Concert as phase two of Rail War, launched September 19, 1943, joined by partisans from Crimea and Baltic republics