battle, landmark, interwar and Second World War
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad was a battle fought on 23 August 1942 at Volgograd, in what is now Russia; it lasted 5 months. It was part of the Eastern Front, which ran from 1941 to 1955. The recorded result: Soviet victory.
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Where it sits in the Eastern Front
Record
| Date | 23 August 1942 to 2 February 1943 | |
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| Place | Volgograd, Russia 48.715N, 44.532E | |
| Kind | Battle, interwar and Second World War | |
| Territorial change | Expulsion of the Axis militaries from the Caucasus, reversing the German-led advances of the 1942 Summer Campaign | |
| Strength | During the Axis offensive:270,000 personnel; 3,000 artillery pieces; 500 tanks; 600 aircraft, 1,600 by mid-September (Luftflotte 4); During the Soviet counter-offensive:1,011,000 personnel; 640+ tanks; 732 aircraft (402 operational) | During the Axis offensive:187,000 personnel; 2,200 artillery pieces; 400 tanks; 300 aircraft; During the Soviet counter-offensive:1,103,000–1,143,500 personnel; 13,451 artillery pieces; 894 tanks; 1,115 aircraft |
| Casualties and losses | 800,000–1,500,000 casualties; Germany: 300,000+ (6th Army and; 4th Panzer Army); 400,000+ (all units); Italy: 114,000–130,000; Romania: 109,000–200,000; Hungary: 120,000–143,000; Hiwi: 19,300–52,000; Total dead: about 500,000; Total captured: about 235,000; 900 aircraft destroyed; 1,500 tanks destroyed; 6,000 guns destroyed; 744 aircraft; 1,666 tanks; 5,762 guns captured; See #Casualties | Krivosheev: 1,129,619; 478,741 killed or missing; 650,878 wounded or sick; Pereslegin: 1,347,214; 674,990 killed, missing, or captured; 672,224 wounded or sick; 2,769–5,654 combat aircraft; 4,341 tanks (25–30% were total write-offs.); 15,728 guns; See #Casualties; Total dead: 1,100,000–3,000,000+ |
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The ground today
The recorded site stands at about 26 m; within 10.0 km the ground runs from -14 to 165 m, 180 m of relief, hilly country and today it is 43% built-up, 30% water, 16% tree cover.
Elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, Airbus); land cover from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0), within about 5 km of the recorded site. Computed, not recorded.Nearest engagements
- Battle of Tsaritsyn 1918, 2.0 km SW
- Attack on Stalingrad 1942, 4.7 km SW
- Battle of Kalach 1942, 77 km W
- Sack of Sarai (1502) 1420, 277 km SE
- Battle of the Tanais River AD 373, 432 km SW
Contested ground: this site was fought over 3 times between 1918 and 1942.
In the same war
- Before: Attack of the U-209 on the convoy near Matveyev Island 17 August 1942
- After: Attack on Stalingrad 13 September 1942
- All 120 engagements of Eastern Front
Elsewhere in 1942
- Battle of Midway United States
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- Second Battle of El Alamein Egypt
- First Battle of El Alamein Egypt
- Battle of Singapore Singapore
Battle of Stalingrad is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 350 in present-day Russia.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q38789, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Stalingrad, revision 1385251109, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.