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   This article is about the 1941 battle. For other uses, see Battle of Moscow   
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   Battle of Moscow   
      
   Part of the Eastern Front of World War II    
   RIAN archive 887721 Defense of Moscow.jpg   
   Soviet anti-aircraft gunners on the roof of the Moskva hotel    
      
      
   Date   
   2 October 1941 – 7 January 1942   
   (3 months and 5 days)    
      
   Location   
   Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR    
      
   Result   
   Strategic Soviet victory   
   German operational and tactical failure   
   Eventual failure of Operation Barbarossa   
       
       
      
   Belligerents   
      
    Germany  Soviet Union    
      
   Commanders and leaders   
      
   Fedor von Bock   
   Albert Kesselring   
   Heinz Guderian Georgy Zhukov   
   Aleksandr Vasilevsky    
      
   Units involved   
      
   Army Group Centre2nd Panzer Army   
   3rd Panzer Army   
   4th Panzer Army   
   2nd Army   
   4th Army   
   9th Army   
   Army Group South6th Army   
    Western Front16th Army   
   19th Army   
   20th Army   
   22nd Army   
   29th Army   
   30th Army   
   Cavalry Group "Dovator"   
   Reserve Front24th Army   
   31st Army   
   32nd Army   
   43rd Army   
   49th Army   
   Bryansk FrontOperational Group Ermakov 3rd Army   
   13th Army   
   50th Army   
      
       
      
   Strength   
      
   As of 1 October 1941:   
   1,183,693–1,929,406 men,   
   [1][2][3][4]   
   1,000–2,470 tanks and assault guns,[5][6]   
   14,000 guns,   
   Initial aircraft: 549 serviceable[7][8][9] At time of counter offensive:   
   599[10] As of 1 October 1941:   
   1,250,000–1,400,000 men,   
   3,232 tanks,   
   7,600 guns,   
   Initial aircraft: 936 (545 serviceable)[7] At time of counter offensive:   
   1,376[10]    
      
   Casualties and losses   
      
   German Strategic Offensive: (1 October. 1941 to 10 January 1942)    
    October: 62,870    
    November: 46,374    
    December: 41,819    
    January: 23.131    
   Total: 174,194 KIA, WIA, MIA (see §7)[11] Moscow Defense:[12] (30 September   
   1941 to 5 November 1942)    
   514,338 killed or missing    
    143,941 wounded    
   Moscow Offensive:[13] (5 December 1941 to 7 January 1942)    
    139,586 killed or missing    
    231,369 wounded    
   Total: 1,029,234(see §7),    
      
      
      
      
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   The Battle of Moscow (Russian: Битва за Москву, translit. Bitva   
   za Moskvu) was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of   
   strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern   
   Front during World War II. It    
   took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort   
   frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the   
   Soviet Union. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives   
   for Axis forces in their    
   invasion of the Soviet Union.    
      
   The German strategic offensive, named Operation Typhoon (German: Unternehmen   
   Taifun), called for two pincer offensives, one to the north of Moscow against   
   the Kalinin Front by the 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies, simultaneously severing   
   the Moscow–Leningrad    
   railway, and another to the south of Moscow Oblast against the Western Front   
   south of Tula, by the 2nd Panzer Army, while the 4th Army advanced directly   
   towards Moscow from the west. According to Andrew Roberts, Hitler's offensive   
   towards the Soviet    
   capital was nothing less than an 'all-out attack': "It is no exaggeration to   
   state that the outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance during this   
   massive attack".[14]    
      
   Initially, the Soviet forces conducted a strategic defence of the Moscow   
   Oblast by constructing three defensive belts, deploying newly raised reserve   
   armies, and bringing troops from the Siberian and Far Eastern Military   
   Districts. As the German    
   offensives were halted, a Soviet strategic counter-offensive and smaller-scale   
   offensive operations forced the German armies back to the positions around the   
   cities of Oryol, Vyazma and Vitebsk, and nearly surrounded three German   
   armies. It was a major    
   setback for the Germans, the end of the idea of a fast German victory in the   
   USSR.[15][16] Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was excused as commander   
   of OKH, with Hitler appointing himself as Germany's supreme military commander.   
      
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