✦ History

Part of Eastern Front (World War II)

Battle of Kiev (1943)

November 3 – December 22, 1943 · Kyiv

Result Soviet victory

The Red Army crossed the Dnieper and attacked German forces holding Kiev. Soviet troops took the city in November 1943 and held it against German counterattacks.

On the map Contemporaries

Allies

Axis

Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Nikolai Vatutin military commander Pavel Rybalko military commander Andrei Grechko military commander
Erhard Raus military commander Hermann Hoth military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
730,000
Tanks lost
271
Aircraft
700
Aircraft lost
125

Units

1st Ukrainian Front 4th Ukrainian Front 60th Army (Soviet Union) 10th Tank Corps 1st Guards Cavalry Corps 9th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) 107th Rifle Division 112th Rifle Division 132nd Rifle Division 135th Rifle Division 141st Rifle Division 143rd Rifle Division 147th Rifle Division 148th Rifle Division 151st Rifle Division 163rd Rifle Division 180th Rifle Division 183rd Rifle Division 202nd Rifle Division 211th Rifle Division 218th Rifle Division 226th Rifle Division 232nd Rifle Division 237th Rifle Division 23rd Rifle Division 240th Rifle Division 241st Rifle Division 309th Rifle Division 322nd Rifle Division 336th Rifle Division 337th Rifle Division 340th Rifle Division 350th Rifle Division 351st Rifle Division 395th Rifle Division 415th Rifle Division 68th Guards Rifle Division 70th Guards Rifle Division 75th Guards Rifle Division
Army Group South 4th Panzer Army VII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 7th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

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