it has not been possible to regroup forces and bring up reserves." Thus, in the next month after the elimination of the "cauldron" near Smolensk, von Bock's armies defended themselves in the center and attacked with limited forces on the flanks. In the south, Guderian won the battles near Gomel and Krichev, and in the north, Group Stumme captured Velikiye Luki and advanced further to the east to Andreapol. Most of the attacks of the Soviet troops were successfully repelled, but the Germans had to be withdrawn from the salient near Yelnya. Casualties and losses Official Soviet data on losses in the Battle of Smolensk (10 July - 10 September 1941) were disclosed only in 1993. According to the study by a team of authors led by Grigori F. Krivosheev, the troops of the four "fronts" and the Soviet lost a total of: 486,171 people irrevocably (dead, missing and captured) 273,803 people wounded. In total: 759,947 people. What part of the 486,171 irrecoverable losses relates to the killed and what part to the prisoners-of-war is not indicated. The Germans reported the following number of prisoners for some operations during this time: 350,000 after the final cleaning of the pocket near Smolensk (including battles at Rogachev and at Mogilev) 38,561 after the destruction of Group Kachalov near Roslavl 78,000 captured by the 2nd Army in the battles of Krichev and Gomel 16,000 captured by the XXIV Motorized Corps of the 2nd Panzer Group between Krichev and Gomel 34,000 captured by Group Stumme near Velikiye Luki Thus, there are more than 500 thousand reported prisoners in total. The losses of the German side, according to one of the documents from the Russian archives, amounted to only 101,000 men. Historian David Glantz draws attention to the fact that the number of killed for the 9th army in this document is obviously too low. In his opinion, this number should be 7 thousand higher. His own estimate of the personnel losses of Army Group Center for the period 10 July - 10 September, made on the base of known German documents, gives around 115,500 killed and wounded, compared with the 760,000 losses the Soviet fronts incurred during the same period. Aftermath During the battle, the German army captured the Archives of Smolensk Oblast Committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a large amount of documents about local history from 1917 to 1941. The