Nikopol–Krivoi Rog Offensive

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The Nikopol–Krivoi Rog Offensive was a major 1944 Soviet Red Army operation that drove German forces from key industrial and mining regions in southern Ukraine during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II Eastern Front operation
military offensive
aimedAt destroying German Nikopol salient
shortening Soviet front line along the Dnieper
belligerent Red Army
Wehrmacht
category Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War
Military operations of World War II involving the Soviet Union
combatantStrength hundreds of thousands of troops on each side
commander Fyodor Tolbukhin NERFINISHED
Rodion Malinovsky NERFINISHED
conflict World War II
countryInvolved Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
dateEvent Kryvyi Rih liberated on 1944-02-22
Nikopol liberated on 1944-02-08
endDate 1944-02-29
followedBy Uman–Botoșani Offensive NERFINISHED
frontLineChange pushed German front westward from Dnieper
involvedArm air forces
armor
artillery
infantry
location Kryvyi Rih NERFINISHED
Nikopol NERFINISHED
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic NERFINISHED
southern Ukraine
objective capture of Kryvyi Rih industrial region
expulsion of German forces from southern Dnieper bend
liberation of Nikopol manganese basin
opponent Army Group South NERFINISHED
opposingCommander Erich von Manstein NERFINISHED
Karl-Adolf Hollidt NERFINISHED
outcome German withdrawal from Nikopol bridgehead
liberation of Kryvyi Rih by Soviet forces
participatingUnit 17th Army (Wehrmacht) NERFINISHED
3rd Ukrainian Front NERFINISHED
4th Ukrainian Front NERFINISHED
6th Army (Wehrmacht) NERFINISHED
partOf Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive NERFINISHED
Eastern Front of World War II NERFINISHED
precededBy Battle of the Dnieper NERFINISHED
result Soviet victory
startDate 1944-01-30
strategicImportance control of iron ore and heavy industry
control of manganese ore deposits
theater southern sector of the Eastern Front
typeOfOperation combined arms offensive
year 1944

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Southern sector of the Eastern Front notableCampaign Nikopol–Krivoi Rog Offensive