The Red Army had built Building up their strength around a number of key bridgeheads , with two fronts commanded Control by Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Marshal Ivan Konev .

The operation was planned Arranging by Georgy Zhukov in the wake of the successful Operation Iskra and envisaged two separate encirclements .

Tsar Nicholas II was forced Motion to abdicate Change_of_leadership and a Russian Provisional Government was founded Creating , with Georgy Lvov as its first leader , who was eventually replaced Change_of_leadership by Alexander Kerensky .