The 2nd Belorussian Front (Russian: Второй Белорусский фронт, alternative spellings are 2nd Byelorussian Front) was a military formation, of Army group size, of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. Soviet army groups were known as Fronts. The 2nd Belorussian Front was created in February 1944 as the Soviets pushed the Germans back towards Byelorussia. General Colonel Pavel Kurochkin became its first commander. In hiatus in April 1944, its headquarters was reformed from the army headquarters of the disbanding 10th Army. Operations On 2 January 1944 2BF entered the former Polish territories. On 26 June 1944 the Front's forces captured Mogilev in the Mogilev Offensive. On 4 July, 2BF was tasked with mopping up the remains of Army Group Centre's Fourth Army under the command of General von Tippelskirch and the remains of the Ninth Army in a large pocket southeast of Minsk. On 9 July The 2BF attacks northwest from Vitebsk as part of a major Soviet offensive east of Riga towards Rezekne in order to cut off the German Army Group North. On 29 July Soviets reach the coast cutting Army Group North off in Estonia and Eastern Latvia. On 13 September 2BF captured Łomża, west of Białystok. In November 1944 Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky was appointed commander of 2BF just in time for its last two great offensives of World War II. As part of a massive attack by four Fronts on 14 January 1945 2BF attacked East Prussia (East Prussian Offensive) and later Pomerania (East Pomeranian Offensive). 27 July 1944 Liberation of Bialystok 10 January 2BF attacked towards Neustettin but was halted by German counterattacks. 14 January 2BF attacks East Prussia (East Prussian Offensive). 24 January 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts attack in Pomerania (East Pomeranian Offensive). German Second Army cut off. 27 February Elements of the 2BF enter Pomerania 28 February 2BF captured Neustettin. 5 March The fortress city of Graudenz on the Vistula surrenders to troops of the 2BF 10 March 2BF captures Zoppot 13 March 2BF launches an offensive against the Braunsberg pocket south of Königsberg 18 March 1st Polish Army of the 2BF captured the fortress city of Kolberg 23 March 2BF attacked the German II Army in the Danzig area. 30 March Soviet troops finally capture Danzig, 20 April 2BF offensive across the lower Oder towards Neubrandenburg, Stralsund and Rostock. 25 April 2BF, seized a large bridgehead on the Oder River