the entire operation was codenamed uranus southwestern front. they were commanded by batutin on novemberhe forty-second force of 21 and the fifth tank army, from their gifts of settlements serafimovichi kletskaya, began to break through the defense

the whole operation received code name uranus the southwestern front was commanded by general vatutinember 19, forty-second force 21 and the fifth tank army from their bazaars and settlements serafimovichi kletsskaya began to break through the enemy defenses in the direction of the village of kalach. this is the time of the troops of the stalingrad front. under the command of general eremenko, from a position south of stalingrad, they hit the flanks of the fascist formations, and the don front advanced to cut the enemy troops into the small radiation. don came on november 19 in the morning stood strong fog. rain was practically excluded, zero visibility was excluded from the offensive of aviation, so a lightning strike was inflicted precisely on the arteries . with the commander of the sixth army, friedrich paulus, was encircled in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe forty-third enemy capitulated fear and horror of the nazi invaders inspired these stalinist organs. so dubbed nazis, our legendary katyushas, ​​began to use them en masse on the fronts, just during the counter-offensive near st

southwestern front lieutenant general. nikolai vatutin, he was ordered to start the operation. uranus at 7:30 fire command sounded. artillery preparation began, which lasted more than an hour, 3,000 guns participated in it. an artillery strike of such a force of the history of wars has not yet been known. at 08:50, the 5th panzer and 21st combined arms divisions went on the offensive. at the same time, artillery fire was transferred to new lines. deep into enemy territory and shooting. the defense of the romanian troops was carried out over the heads of the advancing troops, the german units were broken through, located behind the romanian troops, they tried to stop the soviet troops with a counterattack, but with success. she did not bring the tanks of the red army rushed into the gap on november 20 from the other flank to attack. the forces of the stalingrad front crossed, moving towards each other already on november 23, the advanced units of the two fronts. we met near kalach-on-don. 330,000 people from the sixth german army and the fourth tank army of the year were in the cauldron. however, the enemy managed

southwestern front , lieutenant general. nikolai vatutin, he was ordered to start the operation. uranus at 7:30 fire command sounded.n hour, 3,000 guns participated in it. an artillery strike of such force has never been seen in the history of wars. knew.