Battle of Vyazma

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battle military engagement

The Battle of Vyazma was a 1941 Eastern Front engagement during Operation Barbarossa in which German forces encircled and inflicted heavy losses on retreating Soviet troops near the town of Vyazma.

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Label Occurrences
Battle of Vyazma canonical 4
Battle of Vyazma (1812) 1

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf battle ⓘ
military engagement ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Vyazma pocket ⓘ
belligerent Red Army ⓘ
Wehrmacht ⓘ
campaign Moscow Strategic Offensive Operation ⓘ
surface form: Moscow campaign
combatant1 Germany ⓘ
combatant2 Soviet Union ⓘ
commanderForGermany Fedor von Bock ⓘ
Heinz Guderian ⓘ
Hermann Hoth ⓘ
commanderForSovietUnion Ivan Konev ⓘ
Semyon Budyonny ⓘ
conflictOf World War II ⓘ
countryInvolved Nazi Germany ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ
date 1941 ⓘ
endDate 1941-10-13 ⓘ
followedBy Battle of Moscow ⓘ
front Eastern Front ⓘ
historicalPeriod World War II ⓘ
surface form: Second World War
location Russian SFSR ⓘ
Smolensk Oblast NERFINISHED ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ
Vyazma ⓘ
notableFeature large-scale Soviet encirclement ⓘ
massive Soviet casualties and prisoners ⓘ
objectiveOfGermany advance toward Moscow ⓘ
operation Operation Typhoon ⓘ
outcome encirclement of Soviet forces ⓘ
heavy Soviet losses ⓘ
partOf Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Operation Barbarossa ⓘ
precededBy Battle of Smolensk (1941) ⓘ
result German victory ⓘ
significance major German success in early phase of Operation Typhoon ⓘ
weakened Soviet defenses before Battle of Moscow ⓘ
startDate 1941-10-02 ⓘ
strategyUsedByGermany pincer movement ⓘ
theater Operation Barbarossa ⓘ
surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
typeOfEngagement encirclement battle ⓘ
year 1941 ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Vyazma pocket → alsoKnownAs → Battle of Vyazma ⓘ
Patriotic War of 1812 → battle → Battle of Vyazma ⓘ
9th Army → engagedIn → Battle of Vyazma ⓘ
Vyazma → siteOf → Battle of Vyazma ⓘ
this entity surface form: Battle of Vyazma (1812)
Battle of Krasnoi → precededBy → Battle of Vyazma ⓘ