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Kharkiv (Ukrainian: Харків, IPA: [ˈxɑrkiu̯] ⓘ), also known as Kharkov (Russian: Харькoв, IPA: [ˈxarʲkəf] ⓘ), is the second-largest city in Ukraine. Located in the northeast of the country, it is the largest city of the historic region of Sloboda Ukraine. Kharkiv is the administrative centre of Kharkiv Oblast and Kharkiv Raion.
The First Battle of Kharkov, named by Wilhelm Keitel, [1] was a 1941 conflict fought over control of the city of Kharkov, [c] located in the Ukrainian SSR, during the final stage of Operation Barbarossa. The battle was fought between the German 6th Army, part of Army Group South, and the Soviet Southwestern Front.
- 20-24 October 1941
- German victory
- Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
The two most prominent of them were an independent government in Kiev called the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) and a Soviet Russia-aligned government in Kharkov called the Ukrainian Soviet Republic (USR).
May 19, 2022 · Serdiuka Street was littered with rubble and downed wires and, lying there in all their lazy menace, the remains of Russian rockets — cylinders, fins, motors. Near the rocket strike on Serdiuka...
May 12, 2024 · In Kharkiv, Russia is using all too familiar tactics to advance – reducing Ukrainian villages and towns to rubble. Oleksii estimates that Russia’s been firing around 50 to 60 shells every hour ...
Mar 1, 2022 · The First Battle of Kharkov was fought between 20 and 24 October 1941 as part of the final phase of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the USSR, which had started on 22 June.
There were two significant battles for Kharkov (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) in 1943, during which this Donets Basin (Donbas) city, the Soviet Union's fourth largest, was the scene of fierce urban combat.
