Battle For Velikiye Luki
Naval warfare
- Baltic Sea
- Black Sea
- Rösselsprung
- Wunderland
1941
- Barbarossa
- Białystok and Minsk
- Smolensk
- Uman
- 1st Kiev
- Leningrad
- Sevastopol
- Rostov
- Moscow
- Finland
- Chechnya
1942
- Rzhev
- Toropets and Kholm
- Demyansk
- Velikiye Luki
- Mars
- 2nd Kharkov
- Case Blue
- Stalingrad
- Uranus
- Winter Storm
1943
- 3rd Kharkov
- Kursk
- 2nd Smolensk
- Lower Dnieper
- 2nd Kiev
1944
- Dnieper and Carpathian
- Leningrad and Novgorod
- Narva
- Hube's Pocket
- Crimea
- Jassy-Kishinev
- Karelia
- Bagration
- Lvov and Sandomierz
- 2nd Jassy-Kishinev
- Baltics
- Debrecen
- Dukla Pass
- Belgrade
- Petsamo and Kirkenes
- Hungary
1945
- Vistula and Oder
- East Prussia
- East Pomerania
- Solstice
- Silesia
- Vienna
- Berlin
- Czechoslovakia
- German capitulation
The Velikiye Luki offensive operation (Russian: Великолукская наступательная операция) was executed by the forces of the Red Army's Kalinin Front against the Wehrmacht's 3rd Panzer Army during the Winter Campaign of 1942-1943 with the objective of liberating the Russian city of Velikiye Luki as part of the northern pincer of the Rzhev-Sychevka Strategic Offensive Operation (Operation Mars). It is particularly notable as an example of the failure of German operational combat in relieving an encirclement, similar to those employed at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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