Below is the timeline of the events of the Eastern Front of World War II, the conflict between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945.
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1941
- 1941-06-22 Operation Barbarossa launched — Axis invasion of the Soviet Union
- 1941-06-22–? Battle of the Baltic (1941)
- 1941-06-22–1941-07-09 Battle of Western Ukraine — destruction of Soviet tank armies
- 1941-06-22–1941-07-09 Battle of Bialystok-Minsk — Soviet 3rd and 10th armies encircled
- 1941-07-10–1941-09-10 Battle of Smolensk — Soviet 16th and 20th armies encircled
- 1941-07-10–1941-08-08 Battle of Uman — Soviet 6th and 12th armies encircled
- 1941-08-08–1941-09-19 Battle of Kiev — Soviet Southern Front encircled
- 1941-08-08–1944-01-18 Siege of Leningrad— the city of Leningrad and armies of the Leningrad Front encircled
- Operation Silver Fox German and Finnish forces advance north of Leningrad on Murmansk.
- Battle of Roslavl
- 1941-10-24–1942-01-07 Operation Typhoon — German advance on Moscow
- 1941-10-21–1941-10-27 Battle of Rostov — Germans initially occupied Rostov but were over-extended and driven back along shore of Sea of Azov by the Red Army.
- Battle of Vyazma-Bryansk— see Battle of Moscow
- 1941-10-10— Battle of Vyazma- occupied by Germans
- 1941-10-06— Battle of Bryansk- occupied by Germans
- 1941-10-02–1942-01-07 Battle of Moscow — Soviet Winter counter-offensive with Siberian troops
- Battle of the Crimea
- First Battle of Kharkov— Germans occupy Kharkov
- 1941-11-16–1942-07-04 Siege of Sevastopol — Germans are claimed by some to have used poison gas to flush Soviet defenders from bunkers and caves
- Demyansk Pocket — trapped German troops supplied by air drop
1942
- January–April Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive (1942) — disastrous Soviet attempt to cut off the Rzhev salient
- 1942-05-12–1942-05-30 Second Battle of Kharkov — Red Army take city but are cut off by 1st Panzer Army
- July Battle of Voronezh (1942)
- 1942-06-28 Operation Blue launched — from the Don to the Volga
- July First Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive
- 1942-07-23–1943-02-01 Battle of the Caucasus — Austrian troops climb Mount Elbrus but Axis cannot fight their way through to the Caspian Sea oilfields
- 1942-09-01–1943-02-02 Battle of Stalingrad — Bloodiest battle in history
- 1942-11-19 Operation Uranus launched — Romanian and Hungarian armies destroyed; 300,000 Axis troops trapped at Stalingrad
- November–December Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive — another disastrous Soviet attempt to cut off Rzhev salient; Georgy Zhukov's worst defeat
- 1942-12-12–1942-12-29 Operation Winter Storm — fails to relieve Stalingrad
- 1942-12-16–1943-02-25 Operation Saturn — soviet offensive destroys the Axis position in the Caucasus and Donbass
1943
- March Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive (1943)
- 1943-02-16–1943-03-15 Third Battle of Kharkov — Erich von Manstein traps over-extended Red Army
- 1943-07-05–1943-08-01 Battle of Kursk — largest tank battle in history; Germans defeated by defense in depth
- 1943-07-30 Battle of the Mius
- August Battle of Belgorod
- August Fourth Battle of Kharkov
- Battle of Smolensk (1943)
- September–November Battle of the Dniepr
- October Battle of Lenino
- November Battle of Kiev
- December–August 1944 Battle of the Ukraine
1944
- January — Korsun Pocket
- 1944-01-18 — Siege of Leningrad raised
- February–July — Battle of Narva — Soviet Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive brought to a halt by German forces including Estonian conscript formations
- June–August — Operation Bagration — destruction of German Army Group Centre
- July–August — Lvov-Sandomir Offensive — destruction of German Army Group South
- July — Soviet Narva Operation — Soviet capture of Narva town
- 1944-07-26–1944-08-12 — Battle of Tannenberg Line — Soviet advance to Tallinn harbour brought to a halt by German forces
- August — Operation Iassy-Kishinev (German "Operation Jassy-Kischinew") — defeat of German forces in Romania and switching of sides of Romania
- 1944-08-23 — Romania switches sides
- August–September — Warsaw Uprising — failed due to lack of outside support
- 1944-08-29–1944-10-28 — Slovak National Uprising — Failed coup of slovak-soviet irregular forces in Slovakia
- August–October — Battle of the Baltic (1944) — German Army Group North trapped in Courland
- 1944-10-06–1944-10-28 — Battle of Debrecen — German Army Group Fretter-Pico surrounded and destroyed Soviet Mobile Group Pliyev of the 2nd Ukrainian Front
- 1944-09-04 — Soviet Union agrees armistice with Finland
- October — Battle of Belgrade
- 1944-12-29–1945-02-13 — Battle of Budapest
1945
- 1945-01-12–1945-02-02 — Vistula-Oder Offensive — Soviet advance from Poland to deep within the borders of Germany (seen from the location of the borders then)
- 1945-03-06–1945-03-17 — Lake Balaton Offensive — Last German offensive of the war
- 1945-04-02–1945-04-13 — Vienna Offensive
- 1945-04-16–1945-04-19 — Battle of the Seelow Heights — Zhukov's costly frontal assault on Berlin
- 1945-04-16–1945-05-02 — Battle of Berlin — One month of street-by-street fighting
- 1945-04-24–1945-05-01 — Battle of Halbe — Elements of German 9th Army escape to the west
- 1945-04-30 — Death of Adolf Hitler
- 1945-05-07 — Unconditional surrender of Germany in Rheims
- 1945-05-08 — Unconditional surrender of Germany in Berlin
- 1945-05-08 — End of World War II in Europe
- 1945-05-06–1945-05-11 — Prague Offensive
See also
- List of Military operations on the Eastern Front European Theater during WW2
- Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II
- Timeline of the Second World War
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