Operation "Seydlitz"

Operation "Seydlitz"
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
Date July 1942 Location Rzhev and Velikie Luki salients, Russian SFSR Result German victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Konev	Walter Model

Operation Seydlitz was of an auxiliary nature and was aimed at liberating the zone of the German 9th Army from the penetration of the Soviet 39th Army of Lieutenant General Ivan Maslennikov and the 11th Cavalry Corps of Colonel S. Sokolov.