Battle of Voronezh

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The Battle of Voronezh was a major Eastern Front engagement during World War II in 1942, in which German and Soviet forces fought fiercely for control of the strategically vital city of Voronezh in southwestern Russia.

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Battle of Voronezh canonical 4

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instanceOf Eastern Front battle of World War II
battle
military engagement
alsoKnownAs Voronezh–Voroshilovgrad operation (German phase context)
belligerent Germany
Soviet Union
casualties heavy casualties on both sides
combatant Wehrmacht
Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
linked to: Red Army
commander Fedor von Bock
Filipp Golikov
Hermann Hoth
Nikolai Vatutin
conflict World War II
continent Europe
countryInvolved Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
endTime 1942-07-24
followedBy Battle of Stalingrad
German advance toward Stalingrad
front Eastern Front
involvedMilitaryUnit German 2nd Army
German 4th Panzer Army
Soviet Bryansk Front
Soviet Voronezh Front
location Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR

Soviet Union
Voronezh
Voronezh Oblast
natureOfConflict armored warfare
urban warfare
objective capture of Voronezh
secure crossing over the Don River
opponent German Army
Red Army
partOf Case Blue
Eastern Front of World War II
German 1942 summer offensive
precededBy German offensive toward Kursk in 1942
result German tactical victory
Soviet strategic success
river Don River
startTime 1942-06-28
strategicImportance control of transport routes in southwestern Russia
gateway to the Don and Volga regions
theaterOfWar European theatre of World War II
timePeriod July 1942
June 1942
year 1942

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53rd Army participatedIn Battle of Voronezh
Hungarian Army units participatedIn Battle of Voronezh
Royal Hungarian Army engagedIn Battle of Voronezh
subject linked to: royal Hungarian army