 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Yakagadzirwa musi waZvita 5, 1942 nekugadziriswazve kwe1st Guards Army Yechipiri kuumbwa, zvinoenderana neStavka kurongeka kwakanyorwa zuva rimwe chetero, sechikamu cheSouthwestern Front. Lieutenant General Dmitry Lelyushenko akagadzwa kuti atungamirire kuumbwa, uye akabata matomu kusvika munaKurume 1943 uye gare gare kubva muna Nyamavhuvhu 1943 kusvika Kukadzi 1944. Kusvika pakati paDecember uto raive ne14th Rifle Corps, 50th Guards, 197th, 203rd uye 278th Rifle Divisions, 90th uye 94th Separate Rifle Brigades, 1st Guards Mechanized Corps, 22nd Motor Rifle Brigade uye matatu akaparadzana matangi. Yakatanga kurwisa panguva yeOperation Little Saturn pakati paDecember, ichikunda mauto eGermany kuMiddle Don uye ichivhiringidza Operation Winter Storm, kuedza kweGermany kubvisa 6th Army yakabatwa muStalingrad Pocket yakagadzirwa neSoviet counter offensive muHondo yeStalingrad, Operation Uranus. Mukati maJanuary naFebruary 1943, yakarwisana muOperation Gallop, ipapo akadzivirira mutsara wevaDonets. Major General Georgy Khetagurov akatungamira kubva munaKurume kusvika Nyamavhuvhu. 