Operation Koltso
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Operation Koltso was the last part of the Battle of Stalingrad. It resulted in the capitulation of the remaining Axis forces encircled in the city. The operation was likely the largest-scale economy-o
Disposition of forces in and around Stalingrad
Konstantin Rokossovsky
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Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky was a Soviet and Polish general who served as a top commander in the Red Army during World War II and achieved the ranks of Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marsh
Operation Koltso
…War II Date 10 January – 2 February 1943 Location Stalingrad Result Soviet victory Belligerents Soviet Union Germany Romania Commanders and leaders Konstantin Rokossovsky Friedrich Paulus Hans von Arenstof Heinrich Deboi Strength 212,000 troops 6,860 guns and mortars 257 tanks 300 aircraft 281,158 soldiers (Glantz) 250,000…
Rokossovsky in 1945
Graduates of the Leningrad Higher Cavalry School 1924/25 Sitting in the second row (right to left): 1. Bagramyan, 3. Yeremenko. In the third row (right to left): 1. Zhukov, 5. Rokossovsky, 8. Ivan Konev. Standing in the fourth row (right to left): 2. Semyon Timoshenko
Communist party Membership card issued to Rokossovsky, following his reinstatement in 1940
Kresty Prison, where Rokossovsky was imprisoned in Leningrad (the city was renamed as Saint Petersburg after the fall of the Soviet Union)