Battle of Rostov (1942)

Battle of Rostov (1942)
Part of Case Blue in the Eastern Front of World War II
Date 19 July 1942 – 24 July 1942 (5 days) Location Rostov-on-Don region, USSR Result German victory
Belligerents
Germany	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Wilhelm List Richard Ruoff Ewald von Kleist Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen Wilhelm von Apell Eberhard von Mackensen	Rodion Malinovsky Andrei Grechko Viktor Tsyganov
Strength
17th Army	Southern Front

The Battle of Rostov was an episode of the Fall Blau operation, which lasted five days and pitted the 56th Soviet Army, in retreat, against the 17th German Army and 1st Panzer Army which tried to surround it.

It was a definite success for the Germans who, thanks to a "commando" action of the Brandenburg Regiment, took the bridges over the Don, the Bataysk Bridge and the dike to the south of the city and prevented the flooding of swamp, which allowed them to continue their progress towards the Caucasus.^[1]