Part of the Battle of Stalingrad during the Eastern Front
Soviet advances during Little Saturn.
Date
16–30 December 1942 (2 weeks)
Location
Don and Chir rivers region
Result
Soviet victory
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Germany Italy Hungary Romania
Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Adolf Hitler Erich von Manstein Erhard Raus Edwald von Kleist Italo Gariboldi Gusztáv Jány Petre Dumitrescu
Joseph Stalin Fyodor Kuznetsov Dmitri Lelyushenko Vasily Gerasimenko Filipp Golikov
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Operation Little Saturn was a Red Army offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II that led to battles in Don and Chir rivers region in German-occupied Soviet Union territory in 16–30 December 1942.
The success of Operation Uranus, launched on 19 November 1942, had trapped 250,000 troops of General Friedrich Paulus' German 6th Army and parts of General Hoth's 4th Panzer Army in Stalingrad. To exploit this victory, the Soviet general staff planned an ambitious offensive with Rostov-on-Don as the ultimate objective, codenamed "Saturn". Later, Joseph Stalin reduced his ambitious plans to a relatively smaller operation codenamed "Little Saturn". The offensive succeeded in smashing the Axis troops and applied pressure on the over-stretched German forces in Eastern Ukraine. Another counter-offensive south of the Don prevented further German advances to the relief of the entrapped forces at Stalingrad.
With subsequent operations, in January and February 1943, the Soviet armies eventually reached and took Rostov as originally planned in "Saturn". Despite these victories, the Soviets themselves became over-extended, setting up the stages for the German offensives of the Third Battle of Kharkov and the Battle of Kursk.
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