23,000 (XX Army Corps for the period from August 8 to Sept 8)[2]
10,701 killed or missing 21,152 wounded 31,853 overall[1]
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Operation Barbarossa
German declaration of war
Phase 1
Brest
Białystok–Minsk
1st Baltic
Raseiniai
Brody
Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
Mogilev
Phase 2
Smolensk
Roslavl–Novozybkov
Advance on Leningrad
Phase 3
Uman
Odessa
1st Kiev
Tallinn
Petrikowka
Yelnya
Leningrad
Sea of Azov
Phase 4
1st Kharkov
Beowulf
Donbas–Rostov
Bryansk
1st Crimea
Sevastopol
Tikhvin
1st Rostov
Bombing of Gorky
Moscow
Air war
Air war 1941
Air war 22 june 1941
The Yelnya offensive (August 30 – September 8, 1941) was a military operation by the Soviet Army during the Battle of Smolensk during Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which began the German-Soviet War. The offensive was an attack against the semi-circular Yelnya salient which the German 4th Army had extended 50 kilometres (31 mi) south-east of Smolensk, forming a staging area for an offensive towards Vyazma and eventually Moscow. Under heavy pressure on its flanks, the German army (Heer) evacuated the salient by 8 September 1941, leaving behind a devastated and depopulated region. As the first reverse that the Heer suffered during Barbarossa and the first recapture of the Soviet territory by the Red Army, the battle was covered by Nazi and Soviet propaganda and served as a morale boost to the Soviet population.
The Yelnyaoffensive (August 30 – September 8, 1941) was a military operation by the Soviet Army during the Battle of Smolensk during Operation Barbarossa...
decided instead to shift the attack axis west to Yelnya and Smolensk. The Yelnya-Dorogobuzh Offensive Operation was considered the "key" to Smolensk and...
Reserve Front. While this Army played the main role in the successful offensive at Yelnya, the 178th was held in reserve. In late August, in response to a...
Infantry Division. Reinforcements from 2nd Panzer Division were coming up from Yelnya in support. The next day, 10th Guards almost clawed its way onto Hill 233...
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31st Army. Rakutin led the 24th Army in the costly but successful YelnyaOffensive during Operation Barbarossa, shortly before the Battle of Moscow. During...
to capture Moscow during the autumn and winter of 1941. The Wehrmacht offensive was slowed by stiff Soviet resistance around Mozhaisk, and also by the...
battalion commander in the 107th Rifle Division. Kozin fought in the YelnyaOffensive after the 107th was moved west and became a regimental commander in...
was subjected to numerous Soviet counterattacks, in particular the YelnyaOffensive, in which the Germans suffered their first major tactical defeat since...
appointed the commander of the Reserve Front. There he oversaw the Yelnyaoffensive, delivering the Red Army's first victory over the Germans. On 10 September...
Front it first saw combat along the Desna River at the time of the Yelnyaoffensive and several of its subunits were overtaken by panic when counterattacked...
Białystok–Minsk, the Battle of Smolensk, and the YelnyaOffensive. For its actions in the YelnyaOffensive, Russiyanov's division was converted into the...
back to the Soviet 120th Rifle Division. For its actions during the YelnyaOffensive, the division became the 6th Guards Rifle Division in September 1941...
Sino-Japanese War. During the YelnyaOffensive, the Soviets retook Yelnya itself. Hitler issued Directive No. 35, Moscow Offensive. Army Group Centre was instructed...
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On 20 July, he was ordered organized antitank artillery during the YelnyaOffensive. After returning to Moscow, Voronov, together with Leonid Govorov,...
1939. It was converted into a motorized division and fought in the YelnyaOffensive. After being converted back to a rifle division it was destroyed in...
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the Soviet Union. He fought in the Battle of Smolensk (1941), the YelnyaOffensive and the Battle of Moscow. In December 1941 Utvenko was wounded and...
Reserve Front. During August and September the division fought in the Yelnyaoffensive, and during the Battle of Moscow fought in sustained defensive battles...
the ground, which was noted by the German troops. After the Soviet YelnyaOffensive east of Smolensk in early September 1941, a German infantryman wrote:...
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