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"Operation Typhoon" redirects here. For the 1943 German landing on Leros, see Battle of Leros.

Battle of Moscow
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II

Soviet anti-aircraft gunners on the
roof of the Hotel Moskva
Date30 September 1941 – 7 January 1942
(3 months, 1 week and 1 day)
Location
Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR
Result

Soviet victory

  • End of Operation Barbarossa
  • Beginning of Soviet counterattacks
  • Germany fails to seize Moscow
Belligerents
Battle of Moscow Germany Battle of Moscow Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
  • Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler
  • Nazi Germany Franz Halder
  • Nazi Germany Walther von Brauchitsch
  • Nazi Germany Fedor von Bock
  • Nazi Germany Heinz Guderian
  • Nazi Germany Walter Model
  • Nazi Germany Günther von Kluge
  • Nazi Germany G.H. Reinhardt
  • Nazi Germany Adolf Strauss
  • Nazi Germany Erich Hoepner
  • Soviet Union Joseph Stalin
  • Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov
  • Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky
  • Soviet Union Ivan Konev
  • Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko
  • Soviet Union Boris Shaposhnikov
  • Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky
  • Soviet Union Leonid Govorov
  • Soviet Union Semyon Budyonny
  • Soviet Union Pavel Belov
  • Soviet Union Lev Dovator †
  • Soviet Union Nikolai Vatutin
  • Soviet Union Issa Pliyev
  • Soviet Union Mikhail Katukov
  • Soviet Union Vasily Kuznetsov
  • Soviet Union Pavel Rotmistrov
Units involved
  • Army Group Centre
    • 2nd Panzer Army
    • 3rd Panzer Army
    • 4th Panzer Army
    • 2nd Army
    • 4th Army
    • 9th Army
  • Western Front
    • 16th Army
    • 19th Army
    • 20th Army
    • 22nd Army
    • 29th Army
    • 30th Army
    • 1st Shock Army
    • Cavalry Group "Dovator"
    • Cavalry Group "Belov"
  • Reserve Front
    • 24th Army
    • 31st Army
    • 32nd Army
    • 43rd Army
    • 49th Army
  • Bryansk Front
    • Operational Group Ermakov
      • 3rd Army
      • 13th Army
      • 50th Army
Strength
As of 1 October 1941:
  • 1,184,000–1,929,406 men[1][2][3][4][5]
  • 1,000–2,470 tanks and assault guns[6][7]
  • 14,000 guns
  • Initial aircraft: 549 serviceable;[8][9][10] at time of counter offensive: 599[11]
 As of 1 October 1941:
  • 1,252,591 men[12]
  • 1,044[13]–3,232 tanks
  • 7,600 guns
  • Initial aircraft: 936 (545 serviceable);[8] at time of counteroffensive: 1,376[11]
Casualties and losses
German strategic offensive: (1 October 1941 to 10 January 1942)
  • October: 62,870
  • November: 46,374
  • December: 41,819
  • January: 23,131

German estimated: 174,194 KIA, WIA, MIA (see §7)[14]

Soviet estimated: 581,000 killed, missing, wounded and captured.[15]		 Moscow Defense:[16] (30 September 1941 to 5 December 1941)
  • 514,338 killed or missing
  • 143,941 wounded
Moscow Offensive:[16] (5 December 1941 to 7 January 1942)
  • 139,586 killed or missing
  • 231,369 wounded
Total: 1,029,234 (see § Casualties)

The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between September 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union.

The German Strategic Offensive, named Operation Typhoon, called for two pincer offensives, one to the north of Moscow against the Kalinin Front by the 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies, simultaneously severing the Moscow–Leningrad railway, and another to the south of Moscow Oblast against the Western Front south of Tula, by the 2nd Panzer Army, while the 4th Army advanced directly towards Moscow from the west.

Initially, the Soviet forces conducted a strategic defence of the Moscow Oblast by constructing three defensive belts, deploying newly raised reserve armies, and bringing troops from the Siberian and Far Eastern Military Districts. As the German offensives were halted, a Soviet strategic counter-offensive and smaller-scale offensive operations forced the German armies back to the positions around the cities of Oryol, Vyazma and Vitebsk, and nearly surrounded three German armies. It was a major setback for the Germans, and the end of their belief in a swift German victory over the USSR.[17] As a result of the failed offensive, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was dismissed as supreme commander of the German Army, with Hitler replacing him in the position.

  1. ^ Zetterling & Frankson 2012, p. 253.
  2. ^ Mercatante (2012). Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History of the Second World War in Europe. Abc-Clio. p. 105. ISBN 978-0313395932.
  3. ^ Stahel, David (2013). Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941. Cambridge University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-1107035126.
  4. ^ Stahel, David (2011). Kiev 1941. Cambridge University Press. p. 339. ISBN 978-1139503600.
  5. ^ Glantz, David M. (2001). Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941. Tempus Publishing Ltd. p. 141. ISBN 978-0739417973.
  6. ^ Glantz (1995), p. 78.
  7. ^ Liedtke 2016, p. 148.
  8. ^ a b Bergström 2007 p. 90.
  9. ^ Williamson 1983, p. 132.
  10. ^ Both sources use Luftwaffe records. The often quoted figures of 900–1,300 do not correspond with recorded Luftwaffe strength returns. Sources: Prien, J.; Stremmer, G.; Rodeike, P.; Bock, W. Die Jagdfliegerverbande der Deutschen Luftwaffe 1934 bis 1945, parts 6/I and II; U.S National Archives, German Orders of Battle, Statistics of Quarter Years.
  11. ^ a b Bergström 2007, p. 111.
  12. ^ Liedtke, Enduring the Whirlwind, 3449. Kindle.
  13. ^ "РОССИЯ И СССР В ВОЙНАХ XX ВЕКА. Глава V. ВЕЛИКАЯ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННАЯ ВОЙНА". rus-sky.com.
  14. ^ "1941". Archived from the original on 25 October 2012.
  15. ^ "ВОЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА --[ Исследования ]-- Мягков М.Ю. Вермахт у ворот Москвы, 1941-1942". militera.lib.ru.
  16. ^ a b David M. Glantz. When Titans Clashed. pp. 298, 299.
  17. ^ Shirer, William L. "24, Swedish (Book III)". The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. pp. 275–87.

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