Eastern Front · Germany vs Soviet Union
Battle of Uman
15 July 1941 – 8 August 1941
Panzer Group 1 and the German 17th Army encircled the Soviet 6th and 12th Armies south of Uman in central Ukraine. Around 100,000 Soviet troops were captured, opening the way to the Dnieper bend.
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Day by day
— Kleist turns south
Panzer Group 1, stopped short of Kiev, is turned south-east down the line of the Bug to get behind the 6th and 12th Armies. The 17th Army and the Hungarian Mobile Corps press them from the west, and the Romanian Fourth Army is coming up from the Dniester. Kirponos asks to pull the two armies back and is refused.
— The ring at Pervomaisk
The 1st Mountain Division coming down the Bug and the 16th Panzer Division coming round from the east meet near Pervomaisk on 2 August and shut the pocket, with the Hungarians holding the outer face. Twenty Soviet divisions are inside a bag about sixty kilometres across, out of ammunition and with the Bug at their backs.
— The pocket ends
The last attempts to break out east go in through the Zelenaya Brama woods at Podvysokoye and fail. Resistance stops on 8 August: 103,000 prisoners, including both army commanders, Ponedelin and Muzychenko. The Dnieper bend and Nikolaev are open, and the Southern Front has lost the shoulder it was hanging on.
