First Battle of Rostov

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The First Battle of Rostov was a World War II Eastern Front engagement in late 1941 in which Soviet forces halted and pushed back the German advance toward the Caucasus at the city of Rostov-on-Don.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf battle
military engagement
alsoKnownAs Battle of Rostov (1941)
belligerent Red Army
Wehrmacht
campaign German 1941 campaign in southern Russia
commandedBy Ewald von Kleist
Semyon Timoshenko
Walther von Reichenau
conflict World War II
countryInvolved Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
endDate 1941-11-29
followedBy Second Battle of Rostov
frontlineChange German forces withdrew from Rostov-on-Don
Soviet forces recaptured Rostov-on-Don
geopoliticalContext German invasion of the Soviet Union
historicalPeriod Great Patriotic War
involvedForce German Army Group South
linked to: Heeresgruppe Süd

Soviet Southern Front
involvedUnit 11th Army (Wehrmacht)
linked to: German 11th Army

1st Panzer Army
Southern Front (Red Army)
locatedOn Don River
militaryTheater Eastern Front
notableFor being one of the first German withdrawals on the Eastern Front in 1941
objective German advance toward the Caucasus
German capture of Rostov-on-Don
opponent Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
outcome German forces pushed back from Rostov-on-Don
Soviet forces halted German advance toward the Caucasus
partOf Eastern Front of World War II
Operation Barbarossa
place Rostov-on-Don
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR

Soviet Union
precededBy Battle of Kiev (1941)
relatedEvent Battle of Moscow
Case Blue
Operation Typhoon
result Soviet victory
startDate 1941-11-21
strategicSignificance delayed German plans for a rapid advance into the Caucasus oil fields
first major Soviet counteroffensive success against German Army Group South in 1941
theater Southern sector of the Eastern Front
typeOfConflict land battle
year 1941

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Battle of Rostov (1941) alsoKnownAs First Battle of Rostov