User:Ryan.opel/Vyazma Defensive
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Vyazemskaya operation ( 2 - 13 October 1941 ) - Defensive Operation West (Commander - Konev , from October 10 - Zhukov ) and Reserve (Commander - Budyonny ) fronts of the Great Patriotic War , carried out during the Battle of Moscow . Ended in a major defeat of the Red Army . The forces of the German Army Group "Center" managed to break through the Soviet defenses and encircle the west Viaz'ma four army composed of 37 divisions , nine armored brigades , 31 artillery regiment of the RGC . irretrievable losses of the Red Army exceeded 380,000 people, were captured more than 600 thousand people [1] . The road to Moscow was open. The Soviet command took immediate measures to strengthen Mozhaisk defense and restoration of the broken front, throwing against the German Panzer divisions plohovooruzhennyh militias and military schools. In Soviet historiography of the crash near Viaz'ma not accepted to remember - the figures concealed losses and failures of command [1] .
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