Atlas of Battles

commander, 21 engagements

Battles of Konstantin Rokossovsky

Battles of Konstantin Rokossovsky

Soviet and Polish military commander (1896-1968), 1889 to 1968

Konstantin Rokossovsky is recorded as a commander at 21 placed engagements in the atlas between 1941 and 1945: 15 battles, 1 siege and 5 campaigns across 7 present-day countries, most in Russia (7), Poland (5), Soviet Union (3). Taken in date order, the sites lie 8,842 km apart end to end, 442 km between engagements on average. Most belong to World War II (20).

Battle of SmolenskCase BlueOperation KoltsoThird Battle of KharkovOperation CitadelOperation KutuzovBattle of the DnieperBobruysk OffensiveMinsk OffensiveBattle of RadzyminSiege of DanzigEast Prussian OffensiveHeiligenbeil PocketEast Pomeranian OffensiveWestern Carpathian OffensiveBattle of the Oder–NeisseBattle of StalingradBattle of KurskOperation UranusOperation BagrationBattle of BerlinBattle of StalingradBattle of KurskOperation UranusOperation BagrationBattle of BerlinKyivViennaBucharestWarsawBudapestPragueKøbenhavnMinskNizhny NovgorodBelgrade500 km50.966N, 29.471E
21 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1941: 1 engagements1942: 2 engagements1943: 7 engagements7 in 19431944: 4 engagements1945: 7 engagements7 in 194519411945
21 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Smolensk, 1941Battle of Stalingrad, 1942Case Blue, 1942Battle of Kursk, 1943Operation Koltso, 1943Operation Uranus, 1943Third Battle of Kharkov, 1943Operation Citadel, 1943Operation Kutuzov, 1943Battle of the Dnieper, 1943Bobruysk Offensive, 1944Minsk Offensive, 1944Battle of Radzymin, 1944Operation Bagration, 1944Siege of Danzig, 1945East Prussian Offensive, 1945Heiligenbeil Pocket, 1945East Pomeranian Offensive, 1945Western Carpathian Offensive, 1945Battle of the Oder–Neisse, 1945Battle of Berlin, 194519411945
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1941Battle of SmolenskSmolensk, Soviet UnionGerman victory
23 August 1942Battle of StalingradVolgograd, Russia1,090 km SESoviet victory
1942Case BlueRostov-on-Don, Russia395 km SWSoviet victory
1943Battle of KurskKursk, Soviet Union562 km NWSoviet victory
1943Operation KoltsoVolgograd, Russia684 km SESoviet victory
1943Operation UranusVolgograd, Russia1 km SSoviet victory
19 February 1943Third Battle of KharkovKharkiv, Ukraine610 km WGerman victory
1943Operation CitadelKursk, Russia197 km NSoviet victory
1943Operation KutuzovOryol, Russia137 km NSoviet victory
1943Battle of the DnieperDnieper, Ukraine769 km SSoviet victory
1944Bobruysk OffensiveByelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Belarus767 km NSoviet victory
1944Minsk OffensiveByelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union101 km NSoviet Victory
1944Battle of RadzyminRadzymin, Poland549 km WGerman victory
1944Operation BagrationByelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Belarus549 km ESoviet victory
1945Siege of DanzigGdańsk, Poland674 km WPolish-Soviet victory; Mass deportation of Germans; Poland...
1945East Prussian OffensiveEast Prussia, Poland126 km ESoviet victory
26 January 1945Heiligenbeil PocketEast Prussia, Russia46 km SWSoviet victory
1945East Pomeranian OffensivePomerania Province, Poland372 km WSoviet victory
1945Western Carpathian OffensiveSlovak Republic, Slovakia616 km SAllied victory
April 1945Battle of the Oder–NeisseOder–Neisse line, Poland524 km NSoviet victory
16 April 1945Battle of BerlinBerlin, Germany71 km WSoviet victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.