✦ History

Part of Eastern Front (World War II)

Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943)

August 13 – September 22, 1943 · Donbas

Result Soviet victory

The Red Army attacked German forces in the Donbas, aiming to liberate the industrial region. It forced the Germans back toward the Dnieper and recovered the area.

On the map Contemporaries

Allies of World War II

Axis powers

Soviet Union
Germany
Rodion Malinovsky military commander Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin military commander
Erich von Manstein military commander Eberhard von Mackensen military commander Karl-Adolf Hollidt military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
1,053,000
Aircraft
1,400
Aircraft lost
327
Strength
c. 400,000
Killed
4,721
Wounded
21,234
Missing
2,985

Units

Southwestern Front (Soviet Union) 28th Army (Soviet Union) 3rd Guards Army 44th Army 46th Army 118th Rifle Division 126th Rifle Division 130th Rifle Division 151st Rifle Division 152nd Rifle Division 195th Rifle Division 203rd Rifle Division 221st Rifle Division 223rd Rifle Division 228th Rifle Division 230th Rifle Division 243rd Rifle Division 244th Rifle Division 248th Rifle Division 259th Rifle Division 263rd Rifle Division 266th Rifle Division 301st Rifle Division 302nd Rifle Division 315th Rifle Division 320th Rifle Division 333rd Rifle Division 33rd Guards Rifle Division 346th Rifle Division 347th Rifle Division 34th Guards Rifle Division 350th Rifle Division 353rd Rifle Division 35th Guards Rifle Division 387th Rifle Division 394th Rifle Division 409th Rifle Division 416th Rifle Division 417th Rifle Division 48th Guards Rifle Division 4th Guards Rifle Division 50th Guards Rifle Division 54th Guards Rifle Division 60th Guards Rifle Division 61st Guards Rifle Division 74th Guards Rifle Division 82nd Guards Rifle Division 86th Guards Rifle Division 87th Guards Rifle Division 88th Guards Rifle Division 96th Guards Rifle Division
Army Group South 1st Panzer Army 6th Army (Wehrmacht) 387th Infantry Division