Alexey Dmitrievich Tereshkov (Russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Терешков ; Belarusian: Аляксей Дзмітрыевіч Церашкоў ; 17 March 189318 March 1960) was a Belarusian Soviet Army Lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
 Tereshkov fought in World War I as a non-commissioned officer and then as a platoon leader.
 After the February Revolution he joined the Bolshevik party and became a partisan fighting against German troops in Belarus.
 Tereshkov became a Red Army officer and fought in the Russian Civil War as a company commander.
 He fought in the Spanish Civil War and after Operation Barbarossa was commander of the 413th Rifle Division in the Far East.
 The division fought in the Battle of Moscow.
 In May 1943 Tereshkov was appointed commander of the 38th Rifle Corps, leading the corps during the Battle of Smolensk, Operation Bagration, Vistula–Oder Offensive, and the Battle of Berlin.
 He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership in the Vistula–Oder Offensive.
 Postwar, Tereshkov led the 113th and 5th Guards Rifle Corps.
 He retired in 1953 and died in 1960.
The Primorsky (Maritime Provinces) Military District was formed on September 30, 1945 on the territory of Primorsky Krai (territory of the former Ussuri Oblast), from HQ 1st Far East Front.
 Under its control also were the troops stationed on the territory of North Korea (25th Army) and the Kwantung Peninsula (39th Army).
 The district headquarters was in the city of Voroshilov (Ussuriisk).
 Troops stationed in Primorsky Krai were the 5th and 35th Armies.
 Air support was provided by the 9th Air Army.
 The 35th Army, the 17th Rifle Corps and the 105th, 187th, 190th, 231st, 235th, 335th, 345th, 363rd, 365th and 366th Rifle Divisions were disbanded.
 The 5th Army's two tank divisions, the 2nd and 3rd, were the only Soviet tank divisions in the Far East.
 The 25th Army's 39th and 88th Rifle Corps were disbanded in August 1946.
 Also during the summer of 1946, 39th Army's 91st Guards, 252nd, 338th and 358th Rifle Divisions were converted into the 4th, 25th and 26th Guards Machine Gun Artillery Brigades.
 In 1947, these became the 25th Guards Machine Gun Artillery Division.
 39th Army's 113th Rifle Corps disbanded in January 1947.
 25th Army pulled out of North Korea in 1948 and was stationed in southern Primorsky Krai on Sino-North Korean border and on the coast of the Peter the Great Gulf.
 By 1948, the army only included the 10th Mechanized and 40th Rifle Divisions, as its other units had all disbanded before 1948.
The 49th Rifle Division was formed in September 1931 in Kostroma as a territorial division.
 In April 1938, it was transferred to recruiting duties in the Leningrad Military District at Staraya Russa.
 The division was used to form the 123rd and 142nd Rifle Divisions in September 1939.
 At this time, the division briefly became part of the Novgorod Group of Forces.
 On 14 September, it became part of the 7th Army.
 The division was transported by rail from Byanchaninovo and Chersky stations beginning on 25 October.
 After reaching the Latvian border, the division was sent to the Karelian Isthmus at Toksovo and Peri.
 The division was subordinated to the 50th Rifle Corps.
 On 30 November, it crossed the Finish border in the direction of Taipaleenjoki.
 On 3 December, it attacked Terenttila while attempting to gain a bridgehead over the Taipaleenjoki.
 Due to the speed of the Soviet advance, a spearhead group, called the "Right Group" was formed from divisions of the 50th Rifle Corps and included the division.
 By 13 December, the division held a bridgehead on Cape Koukkuniemi.
 The attack from the bridgehead began on 15 December.
 The offensive met little success advancing against the main Finnish defensive line and the division suffered heavy losses.
 On 24 December, the division attacked again but was repulsed.
 It became part of the 13th Army on 26 December.
 From 13 January 1940, it was part of the 3rd Rifle Corps.
 In February, it fought in the Battle of Taipale.
 On 8 February, two battalions of the division captured two Finnish bases at , repulsing several Finnish counterattacks.
 The division's reconnaissance battalion was detached for an outflanking attempt across the ice of Lake Ladoga but was repulsed by Finnish fire on 18 February.
 On 19 February, the division pushed all Finnish troops out of their positions in the remaining unoccupied part of Terentitila.
 It broke through the Mannerheim Line positions on 20 February but was repulsed by a Finnish counterattack after advancing a kilometer.
 On 7 April, it was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for its action during the war.
 After the end of the Winter War, the division was sent to the Baltic states on 13 June.
 It participated in the invasion of Estonia from 17 June.
 In July and August 1940, the division relocated to Belarus.
21st Army was a part of the Second Operational Echelon of the Red Army.
 It was formed from the forces of the Volga Military District in May 1941 and was initially based on 63rd Rifle Corps (53rd, 148th, and 167th Rifle Divisions) and 66th Rifle Corps.
 The army was under the command of Lieutenant-General Vasilii Gerasimenko, and its chief of staff was Major-General Vasilii Gordov.
 The commander of 63rd Rifle Corps was Lieutenant-General Leonid Petrovskii and the commander of 66th Rifle Corps was Major-General Fedor Sudakov.
 In early June the army was moved to the eastern fringes of the Pripyat Marshes south of Homel.
 At the outbreak of hostilities on 22 June the army was redeployed north to defend the right bank of the Dnepr between Rybchev and Stary-Bykhov.
 At the same time 25th Mechanised Corps, under the command of Major-General Semyon Krivoshein, was assigned to 21st Army from the Kharkov Military District.
The Soviet Red Army's 7th Army first saw action in the 1939–40 Winter War against Finland.
 In November 1939, just before the initial Soviet attack, it consisted of the 19th Rifle Corps (24th Rifle Division, 43rd, 70th, 123 RD), 50th Rifle Corps (49 RD, 90 RD, 142 RD), 10th Tank Corps, 138th Rifle Division, and an independent tank brigade.
 The Army was first under Commander (Second rank) Yakovlev, but he was removed from command of his army and returned to Leningrad.
 Command of the war operation Kirill Meretskov was called-off due to extensive failures and heavy casualties, and he replaced Yakovlev as the commander of the Seventh Army.
Alexander Ivanovich Utvenko (Russian: Александр Иванович Утвенко; 12 December 1905 – 20 August 1963) was a Red Army Lieutenant general.
 Utvenko became a Red Army officer in the interwar period and was given command of a division after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
 He fought in the Battle of Smolensk (1941), the Yelnya Offensive and the Battle of Moscow.
 In December 1941 he was wounded and after taking the Vystrel courses was given command of the 274th Rifle Division in May 1942.
 Utvenko took command of the 33rd Guards Rifle Division in August and led that division in the Battle of Stalingrad.
 In April 1943 he became commander of the 31st Guards Rifle Corps and led it in the Donbass Strategic Offensive (August 1943).
 In the spring of 1944 he began an accelerated course at the Military Academy of the General Staff.
 After graduating in early 1945 he became commander of the 38th Guards Rifle Corps which fought in the Vienna Offensive and Prague Offensive in the last months of the war.
 Postwar Utvenko continued to command the corps which in the summer of 1946 became an airborne unit.
 He graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff and became commander of the 65th Rifle Corps.
 During the early 1950s he served in positions at the Frunze Military Academy and retired in 1954.
In November 1942 he took command of the newly formed 102nd Rifle Division and led it in Operation Kutuzov, the Battle of the Dnieper and the Gomel-Rechitsa Offensive.
 In December 1943 he was appointed commander of the 29th Rifle Corps and fought in the Operation Bagration and the Lublin–Brest Offensive.
 In September, Andreyev became commander of the 4th Guards Rifle Corps, defending the Magnuszew bridgehead.
 In November he was appointed deputy commander of the 47th Army and in December given command of the 125th Rifle Corps.
 He led the corps in the Vistula–Oder Offensive, East Pomeranian Offensive and the Battle of Berlin.
 In April 1945 he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership in the capture of Warsaw.
 Postwar, he commanded the 4th Guards Rifle Corps, 7th Guards Rifle Corps, 19th Rifle Corps, 3rd Shock Army, 28th Army and Voronezh Military District.
 He was then Warsaw Pact representative to the Albanian People's Army and Czechoslovak People's Army.
 After leading the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, Andreyev retired in 1973.
 He lived in Moscow and died in 1983.
After graduating from a course at the Frunze Military Academy, he was chief of staff of the Southwestern Front composite border detachment during its retreat across Ukraine after Operation Barbarossa.
 In February 1942 he became commander of the 371st Rifle Division and fought in the Battles of Rzhev.
 In February 1943 Oleshev was promoted to Major general and became commander of the 36th Rifle Corps from May.
 He led the corps during Operation Suvorov and Operation Bagration.
 After the capture of Minsk he was appointed the city's military commandant and oversaw cleanup operations in the city.
 He then became the commander of the 113th Rifle Corps and led it during the Baltic Offensive and East Prussian Offensive.
 Oleshev was promoted to lieutenant general in early May.
 During the summer the corps transferred to the Far East and fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August.
 For his leadership in the offensive Oleshev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
The Baltic Offensive, also known as the Baltic Strategic Offensive, denotes the campaign between the northern Fronts of the Red Army and the German Army Group North in the Baltic States during the autumn of 1944.
 The result of the series of battles was the isolation and encirclement of the Army Group North in the Courland Pocket and Soviet re-occupation of the Baltic States.
Fyodor Alexeyevich Bakunin (Russian: Фёдор Алексеевич Бакунин ; 2 March 1898– 22 January 1984) was a Soviet Army major general.
 Bakunin briefly served in the Imperial Russian Army in 1917 and in 1919 joined the Red Army, fighting in the Russian Civil War.
 He became an officer and in 1938 was appointed to lead the 11th Rifle Division.
 A year later Bakunin became commander of the 2nd Rifle Corps.
 Nearly a year later, he became commander of the 61st Rifle Corps.
 The corps fought in the Battle of Smolensk after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
 Bakunin led the corps during the Siege of Mogilev, in which it was destroyed.
 He escaped the encirclement and became a teacher at the Frunze Military Academy.
 In the fall of 1943 he was given deputy command of the 10th Rifle Corps and in May 1944 command of the 63rd Rifle Corps.
 Bakunin led the corps until 1947, when he retired.

Question: What year did Nikolay Oleshev command the 113th Rifle Corps during the Baltic Strategic Offensive?
Answer: 1944