Whoever controlled Stalingrad would have access to the oil fields of the Caucasus and would gain control of the Volga. Stalingrad was strategically important to both sides as a major industrial and transport hub on the Volga River. The Soviet victory energized the Red Army and shifted the balance of power in the favour of the Soviets.
Today, the Battle of Stalingrad is universally regarded as the turning point in the European theatre of war, as it forced the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German High Command) to withdraw considerable military forces from other areas in occupied Europe to replace German losses on the Eastern Front, ending with the rout of the six field armies of Army Group B, including the destruction of Nazi Germany's 6th Army and an entire corps of its 4th Panzer Army. It was the bloodiest battle of the Second World War, with both sides suffering enormous casualties.
The battle was marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, with the battle epitomizing urban warfare. Stalingradskaya bitva, IPA: 23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (later renamed Volgograd) in Southern Russia. The Battle of Stalingrad ( German: Schlacht von Stalingrad Russian: Сталинградская битва, tr.
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