On October 29, 1944, the attack operation began in Budapest. The main blow was given by the 46th Army with the support of mechanized formations. Soviet soldiers had to break through the defenses of the German-Hungarian soldiers and reach the capital of Hungary. After that, the Third Ukrainian Front joined the operation. The fighting lasted more than three months and ended on February 13, 1945 with the defeat of the encircled enemy group and the capture of Budapest.