✦ History

Part of World War II

Battle of Rostov (1942)

July 19, 1942

Result German victory

German forces pushed back the retreating Soviet 56th Army and took Rostov-on-Don in the summer 1942 Fall Blau offensive.

Contemporaries

Axis

Allies

Germany
Soviet Union
Wolfram von Richthofen military commander Wilhelm List military commander Eberhard von Mackensen military commander Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist military commander
Rodion Malinovsky military commander Andrei Grechko military commander Viktor Tsyganov military commander