Kursk–Oboyan Operation

Kursk–Oboyan Operation
	Part of the Great Patriotic War
Date	December 20, 1941 – January 26, 1942
Location	Kursk Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Result	Minor advance of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
Belligerents
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Semyon Timoshenko; Fyodor Kostenko	Walter von Reichenau; Friedrich Paulus; Maximilian von Weichs
Strength
121,000	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Irrevocable: 10,586; Sanitary losses: 19,996; Total losses: 30,582	Unknown

The Kursk–Oboyan Offensive Operation in December 1941 – January 1942 was a front–line offensive operation of the Soviet Troops of the right wing of the Southwestern Front. An integral part of the winter counter–offensive of the Red Army of 1941–1942. Stubborn fighting in the Belgorod Direction continued for 70 days and ended in vain after mutual exhaustion of forces and the onset of mud. Along with other unsuccessful offensives of the winter–spring period of 1942, the operation was not mentioned in Soviet official historiography.

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