Yelnya Offensive
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Soviet Army's Yelnya Offensive operation (August 30 September 8, 1941) was part of the Battle of Smolensk during the initial period of the Great Patriotic War. The offensive was against the semi-circular Yelnya salient which the German 4th Army had extended 50 km south-east of Smolensk forming a staging area for a continued offensive towards Vyazma and eventually Moscow. On September 3, under the threat of the encirclement the Germans started retreating from the salient while maintaining resistance on the flanks. On September 6 Yelnya was retaken...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Soviet Army's Yelnya Offensive operation (August 30 September 8, 1941) was part of the Battle of Smolensk during the initial period of the Great Patriotic War. The offensive was against the semi-circular Yelnya salient which the German 4th Army had extended 50 km south-east of Smolensk forming a staging area for a continued offensive towards Vyazma and eventually Moscow. On September 3, under the threat of the encirclement the Germans started retreating from the salient while maintaining resistance on the flanks. On September 6 Yelnya was retaken. The Soviet offensive continued until September 8, when it was stopped at the new German defense line. This was the most substantial reverse that the Wehrmacht had suffered up to that date and the first successful planned Soviet offensive operation in the Soviet-German war. German losses in the operation were 45,000 killed, wounded or captured. Red Army losses have been variously estimated to at Major General Rakutin fell during the battle.
