Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I arahina e Baklanov te ope i nga pakanga ki te pupuri i te Sandomierz bridgehead mo te toenga o te tau, i te pakaru mai i te bridgehead i te wa o te Vistula<unk>Oder Offensive i te timatanga o te tau 1945. I te wa e whakareri ana mo te whakaeke, te whai i nga ope Tiamana e hoki ana ki te Oder, te whiti i te awa me te whakawhānui i te piriti, i whakaatu a Baklanov i te kaha me te manawanui ki te whakahaere me te kaiarahi o te ope, i te whakaoti i ana mahi whawhai i whakaritea, e ai ki tana rangatira ope taua, a Colonel General Aleksey Zhadov. I roto i te whakaeke o Berlin i muri mai, ka whiti te ope ki te Neisse, Spree, me te Elbe, e hanga ana i tetahi o nga hui tuatahi me nga waahanga o te First United States Army. I mutu te pakanga ki te whawhai i te whakaeke a Prague i te timatanga o Mei. Mo tana "tohe me te kaiarahi mohio o nga hoia i te pakanga mo Dresden" i whakawhiwhia a Baklanov ki te taitara Toa o te Soviet Union i te 29 o Mei. I roto i te Whakataunga Wikitoria o Moscow i te tau 1945
i te 26 o Pipiri, i whakahau ia i te rerenga whakakotahi e tohu ana i te 1st Ukrainian Front.