Battle of Stalingrad

Part of the Eastern Front of World War II

Soviet soldier waving the Red Banner over the central plaza of Stalingrad in 1943.

Date

23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943^a
(5 months, 1 week and 3 days)

Location

Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
48°42′N 44°31′E / 48.700°N 44.517°ECoordinates: 48°42′N 44°31′E / 48.700°N 44.517°E

Result

DecisiveSoviet victory

Destruction of the German 6th Army
Axis powers lose strategic initiative on the Eastern Front

Belligerents

Germany

Italy

Romania

Hungary

Croatia

Soviet Union

Commanders and leaders

Friedrich Paulus
Erich von Manstein
W.F. von Richthofen
Italo Gariboldi
Petre Dumitrescu
C. Constantinescu
Gusztáv Jány

Viktor Pavičić †

Georgy Zhukov
Nikolay Voronov
A.M. Vasilevsky
Andrey Yeryomenko
Nikita Khrushchev
K.K. Rokossovsky
Nikolai Vatutin

Units involved

Strength

Initial:
270,000 personnel
3,000 artillery pieces
500 tanks
600 aircraft, 1,600 by mid-September (Luftflotte 4)
At the time of the Soviet counteroffensive:
~1,040,000 men (400,000+ Germans, 220,000 Italians, 143,296 Romanians, 200,000 Hungarians, 40,000 Hiwi)
10,250 artillery pieces
500 tanks
732 (402 operational) aircraft

Initial:
187,000 personnel
2,200 artillery pieces
400 tanks
300 aircraft
At the time of the Soviet counteroffensive:
1,143,000
13,451 artillery pieces
894 tanks
1,115 aircraft

Casualties and losses

See casualties section

^aOver 10,000 Axis soldiers continued to fight until early March 1943.

Location of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) within modern Russia

DecisiveSoviet victory

Friedrich Paulus
Erich von Manstein
W.F. von Richthofen
Italo Gariboldi
Petre Dumitrescu
C. Constantinescu
Gusztáv Jány

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