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STALINGRAD UNDER SIEGE 151

German 6th Army

Soviet 62nd Army

Univermag

department store

“Pavlov’s

House”

Stalingrad No 2

Station

Grain

elevator

Tractor factory

Barricades

factory

Red October

factory

Stalingrad

Central

Station

German 6th

Army

German 4th
Panzer Army

Gumrak

airfield

Stalingrad

Front

Orlovka

salient

Soviet

64th Army

RYNOK

ORLOVKA

Mamayev

Kurgan

KRASNAYA

SLOBODA

STALINGRAD

GERMANY

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Sep 22 The Germans

capture the central landing

stage, threatening ferry

links across the Volga.

Sep 21 Fierce fighting

takes place in Univermag

department store; it

later becomes German

general Paulus’s

headquarters.

Sep 14 The

Germans capture

Mamayev Kurgan;

the Soviets retake it

two days later.

Nov 15 The Soviet 138th

Rifle Division, surrounded

in the Barricades factory,

receives airdropped food

and ammunition.

Oct 14 5,000 of the Soviet 37th

Guards Rifle Division’s 8,000

soldiers are killed in intense

fighting near the tractor factory.

Sep 27

The Luftwaffe and

150 German tanks

begin attacks on

Soviet factories.

Sep 16–21 Around 50 Red Army

soldiers hold the grain elevator, a large,

fortresslike grain storage facility, for five

days. They fight off ten attacks before

running out of ammunition and water.

ELIMINATING THE ORLOVKA SALIENT

SEPTEMBER 24–OCTOBER 7, 1942

In late September, the German 6th Army

assaulted the salient around the Orlovka district

at the northern end of the city. They trapped 500

Soviet soldiers using a pincer movement. Under

constant attack from Stuka dive bombers, artillery,

and ground forces, the Soviet troops in the pocket

tried to hold on. Finally, on October 7, 120

survivors broke out to join Red Army forces

at the tractor factory near the river.

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German assault on the Orlovka salient

Sep 24–Oct 7

Soviet forces trapped in Orlovka

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TIMELINE

URBAN WARFARE

The city of Stalingrad and its factories

were spread along 17 miles (27 km) of

the Volga River. The Soviet troops were

pushed back until they were trapped in

small pockets along a narrow strip of

land on the west bank of the river.

KEY

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TARGETING THE FACTORIES

SEPTEMBER 27–NOVEMBER 18, 1942

The remnants of the Soviet 62nd Army now

sheltered in the factory district. The Germans

launched a huge assault and, despite resistance

that saw factory workers repairing equipment

on the battlefield, by October 29 they controlled

90 percent of the city. Nevertheless, the Soviets

held on to small pockets, buying time for the

counteroffensive to come (see pp.152–153).

Factories

German advance

Sep 27–Nov 18

Soviet front line

Oct 3

Soviet front line

Nov 12

BATTLES IN THE CITY STREETS

SEPTEMBER 13–27, 1942

On September 13, the Germans attacked the

southern section of the city itself. They were

soon caught in brutal close-range combat with

Soviet forces, who fought for every building. Key

locations—like the Central Station and Mamayev

Kurgan, a hill above the city—changed hands many

times during weeks of exhausting fighting.

German advances

Sep 13–27

Sites of key battles

Soviet front line

Sep 27

Airfield

Railroad Roads

Key buildings German forces

Soviet forces

Sep 20–Nov 18 The 64th

Army secures and holds a

7-mile (11-km) bridgehead

on the west bank of the

Volga around Beketovka,

and repeatedly attempts

to reach the 62nd Army.

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