Rostov Defensive Operation

Rostov Front–Line Defensive Operation of 1941
Part of Donbas–Rostov strategic defensive operation, the Great Patriotic War
DateNovember 5–16, 1941
Location
Donbas
Result Withdrawal of the Red Army, disruption of the German plan to capture Rostov-on-Don
Belligerents
 Soviet Union  Germany
 Italy
Commanders and leaders
Semyon Timoshenko
Yakov Cherevichenko		 Gerd von Rundstedt
Ewald von Kleist

The Rostov Defensive Operation on November 5–16, 1941 was a front–line defensive operation of the Soviet troops of the Southern Front, an integral part of the Donbas–Rostov Strategic Defensive Operation of the Great Patriotic War.

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