Atlas of Battles

commander, 15 engagements

Battles of Nikolai Vatutin

Battles of Nikolai Vatutin

Soviet general, 1901 to 1944

Nikolai Vatutin is recorded as a commander at 15 placed engagements in the atlas between 1942 and 1944: 9 battles, 1 siege and 5 campaigns across 3 present-day countries, most in Russia (8), Ukraine (6), Soviet Union (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 6,224 km apart end to end, 445 km between engagements on average. Most belong to World War II (15).

Kholm PocketBattle of KievOperation GallopVoronezh–Kharkov OffensiveOperation CitadelBattle of BelgorodMirgorod direction offensiveZhitomir–Berdichev OffensiveBattle of the Korsun–Cherkassy PocketRovno–Lutsk OffensiveBattle of StalingradCase BlueBattle of KurskOperation UranusBattle of the DnieperBattle of StalingradCase BlueBattle of KurskOperation UranusBattle of the DnieperKyivMinskNizhny NovgorodKazanRigaChișinăuVilniusKharkivDniproOdessa500 km51.823N, 35.391E
15 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1942: 3 engagements1943: 10 engagements10 in 19431944: 2 engagements19421944
15 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Kholm Pocket, 1942Battle of Stalingrad, 1942Case Blue, 1942Battle of Kursk, 1943Battle of Kiev, 1943Operation Gallop, 1943Operation Uranus, 1943Voronezh–Kharkov Offensive, 1943Operation Citadel, 1943Battle of Belgorod, 1943Mirgorod direction offensive, 1943Battle of the Dnieper, 1943Zhitomir–Berdichev Offensive, 1943Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket, 1944Rovno–Lutsk Offensive, 194419421944
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
23 January 1942Kholm PocketKholm, RussiaGerman defensive victory
23 August 1942Battle of StalingradVolgograd, Russia1,292 km SESoviet victory
1942Case BlueRostov-on-Don, Russia395 km SWSoviet victory
1943Battle of KurskKursk, Soviet Union562 km NWSoviet victory
1943Battle of KievKyiv, Ukraine414 km WSoviet victory
1943Operation GallopDonets coal basin, Ukraine607 km SEGerman victory
1943Operation UranusVolgograd, Russia488 km ESoviet victory
1943Voronezh–Kharkov OffensiveVoronezh Oblast, Russia408 km NWSoviet victory
1943Operation CitadelKursk, Russia285 km WSoviet victory
1943Battle of BelgorodBelgorod, Russia130 km SSoviet victory
1943Mirgorod direction offensiveOkhtyrka, Ukraine125 km WSoviet victory
1943Battle of the DnieperDnieper, Ukraine466 km SWSoviet victory
1943Zhitomir–Berdichev OffensiveUkraine468 km NWSoviet victory
24 January 1944Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy PocketCherkasy, Ukraine202 km ESoviet victory
1944Rovno–Lutsk OffensivePolesia, Russia383 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, не указан, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.