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The Second Battle of Kiev 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 [1] and one operational counterattack by the Wehrmacht, which took place between 3 November and 22 December 1943.
The offensive was launched on December 24, 1943, by Vatutin's 1st Ukrainian Front, with attacks against the German 4th Panzer Army, to the west and south-west of Kiev. [ 43 ] [ 56 ] Manstein attempted to counter the attack with a flank attack by the Fourth Panzer Army, while simultaneously requesting reinforcements and permission to shorten the ...
As a key armoured component of the Wehrmacht, the army took part in the crucial battles of the German-Soviet war of 1941–45, including Operation Barbarossa, the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk, and the 1943 Battle of Kiev. The army was destroyed during the Battle of Stalingrad, [5] [6] but later reconstituted.
The Museum was created by the Council of People's Commissars of Ukraine and the Central Committee of VKP (b) as a museum-preserve "The Battle for Kyiv 1943" on March 20, 1945. In 2008, the museum was granted national status. [ 1 ]
The First Battle of Kiev was the German name for the major battle that resulted in an encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II, the capital and most populous city of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. [8] This encirclement is the largest encirclement in the history of warfare by number of troops.
The front was first formed on 20 October 1943, by renaming the Southern Front and was involved in the Lower Dnieper Strategic Offensive Operation, two battles of Kiev and the Crimean Strategic Offensive Operation. After the liberation of Crimea, the front was disbanded in May 1944.
Battle of Kiev (1941), a major Axis victory over the Soviets during the Second World War; Battle of Kiev (1943), a Soviet victory in the Second World War National Museum-Preserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943", a museum dedicated to the 1943 battle; Battle of Kyiv (2022), a Ukrainian victory over attacking Russian forces during the Kyiv offensive of 2022
The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II which primarily involved combat between the nations and allies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.Combat in the Eastern Front began with the two powers remaining peaceful towards each other, with the annexation of countries such as Albania and portions of Poland by Germany and its allies, and the annexation of Finland and the rest of Poland by ...