Vyazma pocket

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The Vyazma pocket was a major World War II encirclement battle on the Eastern Front in October 1941, where large Soviet forces were surrounded and largely destroyed by the advancing German Army during the drive on Moscow.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Front battle
World War II battle
military encirclement
alsoKnownAs Battle of Vyazma
belligerent Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
casualtiesAndLosses hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers captured
large Soviet killed and wounded
significantly lower German casualties
characteristic large-scale encirclement of Soviet forces
rapid German armoured thrusts
commander Fedor von Bock NERFINISHED
Heinz Guderian
Hermann Hoth NERFINISHED
Ivan Konev
Konstantin Rokossovsky
conflict World War II
countryInvolved Germany
Soviet Union
date October 1941
endDate 1941-10-13
followedBy Battle of Moscow
front Eastern Front
historicalPeriod 1941 in the Soviet Union
involvedUnit German Army Group Centre
Soviet Bryansk Front
Soviet Reserve Front
Soviet Western Front
location Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Smolensk Oblast NERFINISHED
Soviet Union
near Vyazma
notableFor one of the largest encirclements of Soviet troops in 1941
objective encirclement of Soviet forces west of Moscow
operation Operation Typhoon
opponent Red Army
Wehrmacht
partOf German offensive towards Moscow
Operation Barbarossa
precededBy Battle of Smolensk (1941)
relatedEvent Bryansk pocket
Kiev encirclement (1941)
result German victory
startDate 1941-10-02
strategicEffect severe losses for Soviet Western Front
temporary weakening of Soviet defenses before Moscow
theater European theatre of World War II

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Operation Typhoon
includedBattle
Bryansk pocket
relatedTo

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