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The Battles of Rzhev (Russian: Ржевская битва, romanized: Rzhevskaya bitva) were a series of Red Army offensives against the Wehrmacht between 8 January 1942 and 31 March 1943, on the Eastern Front of World War II.
Rzhev (Russian: Ржев, IPA: [ˈrʐɛf]) is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia, located 49 kilometers (30 mi) southwest of Staritsa and 126 kilometers (78 mi) from Tver, on the highway and railway connecting Moscow and Riga. It is the uppermost town situated on the Volga River.
The Battle of Rzhev in the summer of 1942 was part of a series of battles that lasted 15 months in the center of the Eastern Front. It is known in Soviet history of World War II as the first Rzhev–Sychyovka offensive operation, which was defined as spanning from 30 July to 23 August 1942.
- 30 July-1 October 1942
- German victory
- Tver Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Dec 5, 2019 · Rzhev is a 2019 film about the bloody battles near the town of Rzhev in 1942/1943, where the Red Army faced heavy losses and political repression. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev and stars Sergey Zharkov, Ivan Batarev and Oleg Gayanov.
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- Drama, History, War
- Igor Kopylov
- 2019-12-05
Learn how the 2nd SS Division Das Reich fought a desperate rearguard action against the Red Army at Rzhev in December 1941. The article describes the brutal winter conditions, the Soviet offensive, and the SS sacrifice in detail.
The Battle of Rzhev, a small town near Moscow, was one of the bloodiest and most protracted conflicts in World War II. It involved multiple offensives and counteroffensives by the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, and influenced the outcome of the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk.
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Rzhev, city, Tver oblast (region), northwestern Russia. It lies along the upper Volga River at the crossing of the Moscow-Riga and St. Petersburg–Bryansk trunk railways. First mentioned in 1216 as an independent princedom, Rzhev has always been a route centre on the western approaches to Moscow.
