Rzhev–Vyazma Offensive

January 8 – April 20, 1942 · Battle site

Result Inconclusive

The Red Army launched a large winter offensive to encircle German forces around Rzhev and Vyazma after the Moscow counteroffensive. It failed to destroy them and the front stalled.

On the map Contemporaries

Allies

Axis

Soviet Union

Germany

Georgy Zhukov military commander

Ivan Konev military commander

Vasily Sokolovsky military commander

Walter Model military commander

Günther von Kluge military commander

Heinz Guderian military commander

Strength and losses

Strength: 3,680,300
Casualties: 1,160,787–2,300,000

Units

Western Front (Soviet Union) 20th Army (Soviet Union) 30th Army (Soviet Union) 31st Army (Soviet Union) 39th Army (Soviet Union) 11th Cavalry Corps 1st Guards Cavalry Corps 108th Rifle Division 110th Rifle Division 113th Rifle Division 116th Rifle Division 119th Rifle Division 134th Rifle Division 135th Rifle Division 144th Rifle Division 146th Rifle Division 149th Rifle Division 158th Rifle Division 160th Rifle Division (1941 formation) 164th Rifle Division 16th Guards Rifle Division 178th Rifle Division 179th Rifle Division 183rd Rifle Division 185th Rifle Division 194th Rifle Division 217th Rifle Division 21st Guards Rifle Division 220th Rifle Division 222nd Rifle Division 22nd Guards Rifle Division 234th Rifle Division 238th Rifle Division 243rd Rifle Division 246th Rifle Division 247th Rifle Division 251st Rifle Division 256th Rifle Division 26th Guards Rifle Division 2nd Training Motor Rifle Division "Alp Arslan" 30th Guards Rifle Division 312th Rifle Division 325th Rifle Division 326th Rifle Division 331st Rifle Division 336th Rifle Division 338th Rifle Division 348th Rifle Division 352nd Rifle Division 354th Rifle Division 355th Rifle Division 359th Rifle Division 361st Rifle Division 362nd Rifle Division 363rd Rifle Division 365th Rifle Division 369th Rifle Division 371st Rifle Division 373rd Rifle Division 375th Rifle Division 379th Rifle Division 380th Rifle Division 381st Rifle Division 415th Rifle Division 50th Rifle Division 88th Rifle Division 9th Guards Rifle Division

XX Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXVII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 129th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 162nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 197th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 253rd Infantry Division 339th Infantry Division 342nd Infantry Division 5th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) 78th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

Before and after

Followed from: Battle of Moscow October 2, 1941 – January 7, 1942

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1942

Battle of Moscow

Rzhev–Vyazma Offensive