Battle of Voronezh (1942)

Battle of Voronezh (1942)
	Part of Case Blue in the Eastern Front of World War II
	; The Eastern Front at the time of the Battle of Voronezh. (click to enlarge)
Date	28 June – 24 July 1942
Location	Voronezh, Russian SFSR
Result	Axis victory
Belligerents
Germany; Hungary; Romania; Italy; Slovakia	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Fedor von Bock; Maximilian von Weichs; Wilhelm List; Hermann Hoth; Hans von Salmuth; Friedrich Paulus; Gusztáv Jány; Ewald von Kleist; Richard Ruoff	Filipp Golikov; Nikandr Chibisov; Semyon Timoshenko; Rodion Malinovsky; Pavel Korzun; Grigory Khalyuzin; Nikolai Pukhov; Mikhail Parsegov; Fyodor Kharitonov; Maksim Antoniuk; Alexei Danilov; Dmitry Ryabyshev; Kirill Moskalenko; Anton Lopatin; Dmitry Nikishov; Pyotr Kozlov; Andrei Grechko; Fyodor Kamkov; Viktor Tsyganov; Ilya Smirnov
Units involved
Army Group B 4th Panzer Army; 2nd Army; 6th Army; 2nd Army; Army Group A 1st Panzer Army; 17th Army;	Bryansk Front 3rd Army; 48th Army; 13th Army; Voronezh Front 40th Army; 6th Army; 60th Army; Southwestern Front 21st Army; 28th Army; 38th Army; 9th Army; 57th Army; Southern Front 37th Army; 12th Army; 18th Army; 56th Army; 24th Army;
Strength
975,000	1,300,000
Casualties and losses
94,500 casualties including 19,000 KIA and MIA	568,347; 200,000 killed and 80,000 captured; 197,825 wounded.; 568,347, thereof 370,522 killed or missing and 197 825 wounded.

The Battle of Voronezh, or First Battle of Voronezh, was a battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, fought in and around the strategically important city of Voronezh on the Don river, 450 km (280 mi) south of Moscow, from 28 June-24 July 1942, as opening move of the German summer offensive in 1942.

The battle was marked by heavy urban fighting, and ferocious street-fighting, showing what was to come at the Battle of Stalingrad.

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