Russia
- German and Romanian troops reached the Perekop Isthmus in Russia and began to cut off the Crimean Peninsula. ww2dbase [Krym | CPC]
Russia
- Erich von Manstein's German Eleventh Army broke through the mud and fog on the Perekop Isthmus into the Crimean Peninsula in Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Krym | AC]
Russia
- German 132nd Infantry Division attacked toward Sevastopol, Russia and was halted at Bakhchisaray by Soviet 8th Naval Brigade. Nearby, ships of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet evacuated troops from Yalta, Yevpatoria, and Feodosiya, transporting them to Sevastopol; cruiser Voroshilov was damaged by German aircraft during this effort. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Krym | CPC]
Russia
- The 19,894-strong Soviet Independent Coastal Army, with 10 T-26 tanks and 152 guns, arrived in Sevastopol, Russia from Odessa, Ukraine, significantly bolstering the city's defenses. 40 kilometers east of Sevastopol, German troops captured Yalta. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Krym | TH]
Russia
- The German 11.Armee captured Kerch, Russia. Soviet Deputy Navy Commissar Admiral Gordei Levchenko was arrested after being deemed responsible for this defeat. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Kerch, Krym | TH, CPC]
Russia
- The Soviets landed 20,000 men on the Kerch Peninsula in Russia with the aim of lifting the siege of Sevastopol. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Krym | AC]
Russia
- Soviet troops conducted an amphibious assault on the Kerch Peninsula in an attempt to relieve the siege of Sevastopol, Russia, landing 13,000 men of the Soviet 51st Army. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Krym | TH]
Russia
- 46th Infantry Division of the German 11th Army counterattacked the Soviet beachheads on the Kerch Peninsula, Russia, but the attacks failed to stop further Soviet reinforcements from the sea. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Krym | CPC]
Russia
- The Soviet 44th Army landed 23,000 men and a battalion of tanks at Feodosiya to reinforce Sevastopol, Russia at 0350 hours. In response, General Hans von Sponeck ordered the German 46th Infantry Division to fall back, losing much heavy equipment in the process and against Adolf Hitler's "no retreat" order. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Feodosiya, Krym | TH]
Russia
- German troops retreated from Kerch, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Kerch, Krym | CPC]
- 10,000 Jews were massacred in Simferopol, Russia. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Simferopol, Krym | CPC]
Russia
- Germany authorized the formation of Crimean Tatar self-defense battalions. ww2dbase [Deportation of Crimean Tatars | Krym | CPC]
Russia
- German 11.Armee captured Feodosiya in the Crimea region of Russia, sealing off the Soviet bridgehead near Kerch. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Feodosiya, Krym | TH, CPC]
Russia
- As of this date, 1,632 Crimean Tatars were fighting in self-defense battalions under the German banner. ww2dbase [Deportation of Crimean Tatars | Krym | CPC]
Russia
- A major Soviet attack was launched out of Kerch Peninsula in Russia in an attempt to relieve the besieged city of Sevastopol. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Krym | TH]
Russia
- Soviet Army's Kerch offensive in Russia was defeated with heavy losses. To the west, German counter attack at Sevastopol failed, resulting in the loss of the 22nd Division. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Krym | TH]
Russia
- Soviet fighters shot down two He 111 bombers of 1. Staffel of the III. Gruppe of German Luftwaffe KG 27 over Kerch, Russia. ww2dbase [Kerch, Krym | CPC]
Russia
- Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded Axis troop positions Feodossiya, Russia. ww2dbase [Voroshilov | Feodossiya, Krym | CPC]
Russia
- Repeated Soviet attacks on German positions at Kerch, Russia failed to break through. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Kerch, Krym | TH]
Russia
- A Soviet landing attempt near Eupatoria (Yevpatoria) near Sevastopol, Russia was halted by the Germans. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Yevpatoria, Krym | TH]
Russia
- Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded German troop positions near Tash-Alchin, Russia. ww2dbase [Voroshilov | Tash-Alchin, Krym | CPC]
Russia
- Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded German troop positions near Tash-Alchin, Russia. ww2dbase [Voroshilov | Tash-Alchin, Krym | CPC]
Russia
- Soviet troops began to withdraw from the Kerch peninsula in Russia, freeing some German resources for the offensive near Kharkov, Ukraine to the north. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Krym | CPC]
Russia
- German troops captured the city of Kerch and the namesake peninsula in Russia; Soviet troops in the area began a 5-day evacuation under heavy fire. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Kerch, Krym | TH, CPC]
Russia
- German troops began capturing large numbers of artillery pieces and munitions around Kerch, Russia, which they would later use against Sevastopol. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Kerch, Krym | TH]
Russia
- Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded Axis positions near Feodonisi, Russia and was damaged by German naval mines. ww2dbase [Voroshilov | Feodonisi, Krym | CPC]
Russia
- Kuban, Russia was under complete Soviet control as the last German and Romanian units had evacuated to Crimea. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | Krym | TH]
Russia
Russia
Russia
- German 11.Armee attempted to crush the Soviet bridgehead at Kerch, Russia, but the attack was halted after it suffered 10,000 killed and 3,000 captured. ww2dbase [Kerch, Krym | TH]
Russia
Russia
- Soviet troops broke through German defensive lines at Kerch, Russia. ww2dbase [Kerch, Krym | TH]
Russia
Russia
Russia
- Bogdan Kobulov and Ivan Serov sent a message to NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria, claiming without substantiation that 20,000 Crimean Tatars had deserted during the retreat of the 51st Army from Krym (Crimea), Russia in 1941. ww2dbase [Deportation of Crimean Tatars | Krym | CPC]
Russia
Russia
- The deportation of Crimean Tatars began. ww2dbase [Deportation of Crimean Tatars | Krym | CPC]
Russia
- Soviet NKVD troops allegedly murdered entire inhabitants of a number of villages on the Arabit Spit in eastern Krym (Crimea), Russia; the main ethnicity of those villages was Crimean Tatar. ww2dbase [Deportation of Crimean Tatars | Krym | CPC]
Russia
- The Soviet Union ordered all Tatar, Greek, and German-language place names in Krym (Crimea), Russia to be given Russian names. ww2dbase [Deportation of Crimean Tatars | Krym | CPC]
Russia
- The Supreme Soviet Presidium of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ordered all non-Russian-language district names in Krym (Crimea), Russia to be given Russian-language names. ww2dbase [Deportation of Crimean Tatars | Krym | CPC]
Russia
- The Yalta Conference commenced in Russia. ww2dbase [Yalta Conference | Yalta, Krym | TH]
Russia
- Joseph Stalin held a feast for the Allied leaders at Yalta, Russia. ww2dbase [Yalta Conference | Yalta, Krym | CPC]
Russia
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic leaders ordered all non-Russian-language village names in Krym (Crimea), Russia to be given Russian-language names. ww2dbase [Deportation of Crimean Tatars | Krym | CPC]
Russia
- Supreme Soviet Presidium of the Soviet Union released Crimean Tatars from the gulags in Central Asia. ww2dbase [Deportation of Crimean Tatars | Krym | CPC]
Timeline Section Founder: Thomas Houlihan
Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
Special Thanks: Rory Curtis
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