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Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942 is a World War 2 tank simulation computer game, set during the Kharkov offensive of 1942. [2] It was made by the Ukrainian game developer team Graviteam and Russian developer Discus Games. [1] [3] The game was released in Russia in November 2007 (Buka). An English version of the game was released in 2008. [3]
The game covers a relatively short segment of the Third Battle of Kharkov between Germany and the Soviet Union, taking place from 2 – 8 March 1943, while the real battle spanned from 19 February – 15 March 1943. The game has 6 scenarios to choose from, set in different historically accurate battles surrounding the Third Battle of Kharkov.
Known to the German side as the Donets Campaign, and in the Soviet Union as the Donbass and Kharkov operations, the German counterstrike led to the recapture of the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod. As the German 6th Army was encircled in the Battle of Stalingrad, the Red Army undertook a series of wider attacks against the rest of Army Group South.
The Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast, officially the Kharkov Military–Civilian Administration, [b] is an ongoing military occupation that began on 24 February 2022, after Russian forces invaded Ukraine and began capturing and occupying parts of Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. Russian forces failed to capture the capital city of the oblast, Kharkiv.
The Voronezh–Kharkov strategic offensive operation was a successful strategic offensive operation of the Red Army's Voronezh, Bryansk and South-Western fronts, carried out from January 13 to March 3, 1943 with the aim of defeating the German Army Group B and liberating a large territory and the important industrial and administrative centers Voronezh, Kursk, Belgorod and Kharkov.
KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -A Russian missile strike that broke in half a 240-metre (787-foot) television tower in Kharkiv on Monday is part of a deliberate effort by Moscow to make Ukraine's ...
By 23 August, the troops of the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts had finally liberated Kharkov from German occupation and the last time that Kharkov changed hands in the Eastern Front. The operation led to the retreat of the German forces in Ukraine behind the Dnieper River and set the stage for the Second Battle of Kiev in autumn 1943.
The Kharkov Military District was established for a second time by Order No. 39 of the military department of the Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine, dated 27 January 1919. It controlled troops on the territory of Yekaterinoslav , Poltava, Kharkov, and Chernigov Governorates.