Battle of Stalingrad

When

23 Aug 1942 – 2 Feb 1943

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

48.72° N, 44.53° E

Description

1942 major battle of World War II

War

World War II

Major World War II battle from 1942 to 1943

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its Axis allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southern Russia. Marked by intense close-quarters combat and heavy civilian losses during aerial bombardment, the battle is considered the largest and deadliest urban battle in military history and the deadliest battle in World War…

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Battle of Stalingrad: German forces of the 16th Panzer Division reach the suburbs of Stalingrad”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Stalingrad Muharebesi başladı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Schlacht von Stalingrad: Mit der Operation Uranus beginnt die Gegenoffensive der Roten Armee”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “création de l’Union des Patriotes, organisation antifasciste de Roumanie”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Фельдмаршал Фридрих Паулюс сдаётся вместе с немецкими частями, окружёнными в южном котле в ходе Сталинградской битвы”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “durante la batalla de Stalingrado, las tropas alemanas llegaron al río Volga al Norte de Stalingrado”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “斯大林格勒战役开始。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ドイツ軍とルーマニア軍がスターリングラードでソ連軍に包囲される（スターリングラード攻防戦）”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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