Battle of Rostov (1941)

Battle Of Rostov (1941)

Operation Barbarossa
  • Brest
  • Bialystok-Minsk
  • Raseiniai
  • Brody
  • Bessarabia
  • Smolensk
  • Uman
  • Odessa
  • 1st Kiev
  • Tallinn
  • Yelnya
  • Leningrad
  • 1st Kharkov
  • 1st Crimea
  • 1st Rostov
  • Moscow

The Battle of Rostov (1941) was a battle of the Eastern Front of World War II, fought around Rostov-on-Don between the German Army Group South, commanded by General Gerd von Rundstedt and the Soviet Southern Front commanded by General Yakov Timofeyevich Cherevichenko.

It comprised three phases: the German Army Group South Sea of Azov Offensive Operation (begun on 12 September 1941), the Soviet Rostov Defensive Operation (5 November 1941 – 16 November 1941) by the Southern Front, and the Rostov Offensive Operation (27 November 1941 – 2 December 1941) executed by the same Soviet Front.

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