Battle of Odessa (1941)

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Battle of Odessa

Part of The Eastern Front of World War II

Date	8 August 1941 to 16 October 1941
Location	Odessa region, USSR
Result	Romanian victory

Combatants

Axis

Soviet Union

Commanders

Lt. Gen. Nicolae Ciupercă

Strength

340,223 men

initially 34,500 men
240 artillery pieces

Casualties

92,545 men(17,729 dead, 63,345 wounded and 11,471 missing)

41,268 men(16,578 dead and missing and 24,690 wounded)

Eastern Front
Barbarossa – Baltic Sea – Finland – Leningrad and Baltics – Crimea and Caucasus – Moscow – 1st Rzhev-Vyazma – 2nd Kharkov – Stalingrad – Velikiye Luki – 2nd Rzhev-Sychevka – Kursk – 2nd Smolensk – Dnieper – 2nd Kiev – Korsun – Hube's Pocket – Belorussia – Lvov-Sandomierz – Balkans – Hungary – Vistula-Oder – Königsberg – Berlin – Prague

Operation Barbarossa
Bialystok-Minsk – Brody – Smolensk – Uman – 1st Kiev – Yelnya – Odessa – Leningrad – 1st Kharkov – 1st Crimea – 1st Rostov

The Battle of Odessa was part of the Soviet-German War in 1941. It was mainly conducted by Romanian forces which were allied to the Germans. Due to the heavy resistance of the Red Army forces in Odessa, it took the Romanian army three months of siege and four attempts to take the city, during which they suffered heavy losses. The Red Army forces were finally evacuated on 14 October 1941 leaving behind organized resistance that would terrorize German, Romanian and Italian forces during occupation.