Soviet forces failed to destroy Army Group Center.
Territorial changes
German forces retreat from the Rzhev salient (Operation Büffel).
Belligerents
Soviet Union
Germany
Commanders and leaders
Joseph Stalin
Georgy Zhukov
Ivan Konev
Vasily Sokolovsky
Dmitry Lelyushenko
Adolf Hitler
Günther von Kluge
Ludwig Kübler
Walter Model
Heinz Guderian
Strength
Total: 3,680,300[Note 1]
Total: 1,659,000
13,000 guns and mortars
1,100 tanks
850 aircraft[2][3]
Casualties and losses
1,160,787–2,300,000
Isayev: 392,554 dead/missing/captured
768,233 wounded and sick[4]
Gerasimova: estimated 2,300,000 dead, wounded, missing, captured and sick[5]
668,110
German reports:[Note 2]
162,713 dead
469,747 wounded
35,650 missing
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Location within modern-day Russia
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t
e
Rzhev campaign
1942
1st Rzhev–Vyazma
Sychyovsky
Mozhaysk (Jupiter)
Vyazma Airborne
Hannover
Seydlitz
1st Rzhev–Sychyovka
Kozelsk
Velikiye Luki
2nd Rzhev–Sychyovka (Mars)
1943
2nd Rzhev–Vyazma (Büffel)
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e
Eastern Front
Naval warfare
Baltic Sea
Black Sea
Arctic Ocean
1941
Barbarossa
Brest
Białystok–Minsk
1st Baltic
Brody
Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
1st Smolensk
Uman
Odessa
1st Kiev
Tallinn
Leningrad
Sea of Azov
1st Kharkov
1st Crimea
Sevastopol
Rostov
Gorky
Moscow
Finland
Kerch
Chechnya
Air war 1941
1942
Lyuban
Barvenkovo–Lozovaya
Rzhev
Toropets–Kholm
Demyansk
Kholm
2nd Kharkov
Case Blue
Caucasus
Rzhev–Sychyovka
Sinyavino
Stalingrad
Velikiye Luki
Mars
Little Saturn
1943
Iskra
Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh
Voronezh–Kharkov
Polar Star
3rd Kharkov
Gorky Blitz
Kursk
1st Donbas
Belgorod-Kharkov
2nd Donbas
2nd Smolensk
Lenino
Dnieper
Nevel
2nd Kiev
1944
Dnieper–Carpathian
Leningrad–Novgorod
Narva
2nd Crimea
1st Jassy–Kishinev
Karelia
Bagration
Lvov–Sandomierz
Doppelkopf
2nd Jassy–Kishinev
Dukla Pass
2nd Baltic
Belgrade
Debrecen
Petsamo–Kirkenes
Courland
Gumbinnen
Budapest
1945
Vistula–Oder
Western Carpathian
East Prussia
Silesia
Breslau
Solstice
East Pomerania
Lake Balaton
Drava
Moravia–Ostrava
Vienna
Bratislava–Brno
Nagykanizsa–Körmend
Berlin
Prague
Prague uprising
Czech Radio
Slivice
The Battles of Rzhev (Russian: Ржевская битва, romanized: Rzhevskaya bitva) were a series of Red Army offensives against the Wehrmacht between 8 January 1942 and 31 March 1943, on the Eastern Front of World War II. The battles took place in the northeast of Smolensk Oblast and the south of Tver Oblast, in and around the salient surrounding Rzhev. Due to the high losses suffered by the Soviet Army, the campaign became known by veterans and historians as the "Rzhev Meat Grinder" (Russian: Ржевская мясорубка, romanized: Rzhevskaya myasorubka).
^Gerasimova 2016, p. 167-9.
^Lopuhovskiy, L.N. (2008). 1941. Vyazemskaya disaster(PDF) (in Russian) (2nd, Revised ed.). Yauza Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-30305-2.
^Isaev, Alexei V. (2005). Boilers 41st. The history of the Second World War, we did not know (in Russian). Yauza Eksmo. ISBN 5-699-12899-9.
^Cite error: The named reference actualhistory.ru was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Gerasimova 2016, p. 159.
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