Battle of Rzhev, summer 1942
Videos
The Battle of Rzhev in the summer of 1942 was part of a series of battles that lasted 15 months in the center of the Eastern Front. It is known in Soviet history of World War II as the first Rzhev–Syc
Red Army artillery being redeployed through the mud, October 1942
The formation of the Rzhev Salient, January 1942
Heinrich von Vietinghoff
Ivan Konev
Operation Mars
Videos
Operation Mars, also known as the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation, was the codename for an offensive launched by Soviet forces against German forces during World War II. It took place betwee
Battle of Rzhev, summer 1942
…defence had been tactically successful, it had achieved little more than maintaining the status quo. And although the offensive failed, Zhukov was given another chance to crush the Rzhev salient soon afterwards. The closing stages of the Battle of Moscow saw the formation of the Rzhev salient. The Soviet counter-offensive…
Operation mars schema
Soviet collective farmers hand over KV-1S tanks to their crews.