Winter campaign of 1941–42
The winter campaign of 1941–1942 from 5 December 1941 to 7 May 1942 was the name given by Soviet military command to the period that marked the commencement of the Moscow Strategic Offensive Operation. The opening phase of the Red Army strategic counter-offensive operations in the Soviet Union was a major albeit costly Soviet victory.
The campaign began with the Moscow Strategic Offensive Operation with the simultaneous Kerch-Feodosia Amphibious Operation
The operations in central and northern European Russia began with the conclusion of the Moscow counter-offensive almost simultaneously with the Oboyan–Kursk Offensive Operation, the Lyuban Offensive Operation, the Demyansk Offensive Operation, the Orel–Bolkhov Offensive Operation, and the Rzhev-Vyazma Strategic Offensive Operation..
The campaign concluded with the Barvenkovo-Lozovaya Offensive Operation, a renewed attempt to retake Crimea during the Crimean Offensive Operation and the Bolkhov Offensive Operation.
