✦ History

Part of Dnieper–Carpathian offensive

Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive

January 30 – February 29, 1944 · Kryvyi Rih

Result Soviet victory

The Red Army's Third and Fourth Ukrainian Fronts attacked German forces in the Dnieper bend. They eliminated the Nikopol bridgehead and retook the Krivoi Rog iron-ore region.

On the map Contemporaries

Nazi Germany

Soviet Union

Germany
Soviet Union
Erich von Manstein military commander Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist military commander Karl-Adolf Hollidt military commander
Rodion Malinovsky military commander Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
705,000
Tanks
390
Aircraft
1,340
Guns
8,048

Units

Army Group A 6th Army (Wehrmacht) XXX Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 15th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 335th Infantry Division 387th Infantry Division
4th Ukrainian Front 28th Army (Soviet Union) 3rd Guards Army 46th Army 108th Guards Rifle Division 109th Guards Rifle Division 118th Rifle Division 152nd Rifle Division 15th Guards Rifle Division 195th Rifle Division 203rd Rifle Division 223rd Rifle Division 228th Rifle Division 230th Rifle Division 236th Rifle Division 243rd Rifle Division 244th Rifle Division 259th Rifle Division 320th Rifle Division 333rd Rifle Division 34th Guards Rifle Division 353rd Rifle Division 35th Guards Rifle Division 394th Rifle Division 40th Guards Rifle Division 416th Rifle Division 48th Guards Rifle Division 4th Guards Rifle Division 50th Guards Rifle Division 60th Guards Rifle Division 61st Guards Rifle Division 73rd Guards Rifle Division 82nd Guards Rifle Division 88th Guards Rifle Division 96th Guards Rifle Division