Battle of Kiev (1941)

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:battle
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Kiev_Offensive_(1920)
gptkbp:alternativeName Battle_of_Kiev_(1918)
Battle_of_Kiev_(1920)
Battle_of_Kiev_(1943)
gptkbp:casualties heavy on both sides
German: about 61,000
Soviet: over 600,000 captured
gptkbp:combatant gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkb:Soviet_Russia
gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkb:Ukrainian_People's_Republic
gptkb:Second_Polish_Republic
gptkb:Red_Army
gptkbp:commander gptkb:Alexander_Yegorov
gptkb:Józef_Piłsudski
gptkb:Erich_von_Manstein
gptkb:Nikolai_Vatutin
gptkb:Symon_Petliura
gptkb:Gerd_von_Rundstedt
gptkb:Semyon_Budyonny
gptkb:Heinz_Guderian
gptkb:Mikhail_Tukhachevsky
gptkb:Mikhail_Kirponos
gptkbp:conflict gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:date 3–13 November 1943
23 August – 26 September 1941
April 25 – June 13, 1920
February 1918
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Battle_of_Moscow
gptkb:German_intervention_in_Ukraine_(1918)
gptkb:Zhitomir–Berdichev_Offensive
Soviet counteroffensive
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Battle of Kiev (1941)
gptkbp:location gptkb:Kiev
gptkb:Ukraine
gptkb:Kiev,_Ukrainian_SSR,_Soviet_Union
gptkbp:notableFor largest encirclement in military history
gptkbp:objective gptkb:Liberation_of_Kiev_from_German_occupation
gptkbp:operator gptkb:Dnieper–Carpathian_Offensive
gptkb:Operation_Barbarossa
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Ukrainian–Soviet_War
gptkb:Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)
gptkb:Polish–Soviet_War
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:October_Revolution
gptkb:Battle_of_Smolensk_(1941)
gptkb:Polish–Ukrainian_alliance
gptkb:Battle_of_the_Dnieper
gptkbp:result Soviet victory
German victory
Red Army victory
Polish and Ukrainian forces captured Kiev, later forced to retreat by Soviet counteroffensive
gptkbp:significance Liberation of the capital of Ukraine
delayed German advance on Moscow
major defeat for the Red Army
Capture of Kiev by Bolshevik forces
Major engagement in the Polish–Soviet War
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Nikolai_Vatutin
gptkb:1st_Ukrainian_Front
gptkb:German_6th_Army
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5