Events
16 July - R. Luga Reached30 Jul - Uman begins encirclement from south3 Aug - Uman is encircled5 Aug - Siege of Odessa5 Aug - Smolensk pocket liquidated25 Aug - Invasion of Iran19 Aug - Transnitrian Governate, Soviets retreat to Dniepr20 Aug- Ukraine Reichskommisariat1 Sept - GenGov expanded12 Aug - South towards Gomel25 Aug - Capture Dnepropetrovsk12 Sept - Advances north from Cherkassy12 Sept - Advances South from Gomel15 Sept - Pincers meet at Lokhvitsa23 Oct - Germans enter Kharkov20 Nov - Germans enter Rostov28 Nov - Germans evacuate Rostov25 Sept - Kiev pocket surrenders8 Aug - Advance from the Luga Bridgehead16 Aug - Volkhov river crossed, Novorgrod reached15 Sept - Leningrad sieged9 Nov - Tikhvin captured9 Dec - Tikhvin liberated2 Oct - Offensive towards Moscow begins7 Oct - Vyazma and Bryansk encircled14 Oct - Vyazma pocket liquidated20 Oct - Bryansk pocket liquidated15 Nov - Moscow advance halted27 Dec - Panzers reach 20 miles north of Moscow,
Kashira occupied but advance halted5 Dec - Moscow advance halted for winter.
Wehrmacht begins to retreat from Moscow outskirts5 Dec - Soviets counteroffensive
at Tver30 Oct - Sevastopol sieged16 Nov - Crimea captured except Sevastopol18 Oct - Invasion of Crimea26 Dec - Soviets land at Kerch8 Oct - Soviets encircled at Mariupol15 Oct - Mariupol liquidated
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