battle for stalingrad
- Destruction of the German 6th Army
- Expulsion of the Germans from the Caucasus, reversing their gains from the 1942 Summer Campaign
Casualties and losses - soviet
1,129,619 men - 478,741 killed and missing
- 650,878 wounded or sick
- 2,769 aircraft
- 4,341 tanks
- 15,728 guns
- soviet