What the records say
- When
- 3 Nov 1943 – 22 Dec 1943
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 50.45° N, 30.52° E
- Description
- 1943 battle, part of the Eastern Front of World War II
- War
- World War II
Battle of Kiev (1943)
Battle during World War II
The Second Battle of Kiev, known on the German side as the Defensive battle in the Kiev-Zhitomir area, was a part of a much wider Soviet offensive in Ukraine known as the Battle of the Dnieper involving three strategic operations by the Soviet Red Army and its Czechoslovak units and one operational counterattack by the Wehrmacht, which took place between 4 November and 22 December 1943.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: The Ukrainian capital of Kiev is liberated by Soviet forces from its German occupiers as part of the Battle of Kiev”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Zweite Schlacht um Kiew beginnt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “l’Armée rouge entre dans Kiev évacuée par les Allemands”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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