High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tatsinskaya Raid is an episode occurred during the last phases of the Battle of Stalingrad (Operation Little Saturn), in late December 1942. It consisted in a Soviet armoured raid deep into the German rear conducted by the 24th Tank Corps under the command of Major General Vasily Mikhaylovich Badanov.The Red Army had encircled the Wehrmacht's 6th Army in Stalingrad with Operation Uranus, conducted from 19 November 1942. By the middle of December, the German relief effort called Operation Winter Storm was making progress to within 48 km of the encirclement ring, and the airlift with which the encircled army should have been kept going until the siege was lifted was in full swing.