Battle of Sokolovo

The Battle of Sokolovo took place on 8 and 9 March 1943, near the village of Sokolovo near Kharkiv in Ukraine when the ongoing attack of the Wehrmacht was delayed by joint Soviet and Czechoslovak forces. It was the first time that a foreign military unit, the First Czechoslovak Independent Field Battalion, fought together with the Red Army. Under the command of Ludvík Svoboda, later President of Czechoslovakia, the Czechoslovak soldiers delayed the advance of Germans to the Mzha River. On 13 March, the position was abandoned as untenable due to the complete German encirclement of Kharkov.

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Location: 49.7167, 36.1958, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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1943 Battle of Sokolovo

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1943 Third Battle of Kharkov

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2023 Shelling of the Nova Poshta branch near Kharkov

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2024 Northern Kharkiv front of the Russo-Ukrainian War

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
area	region	1917	Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets		Wikidata
area	region	1918	Odesa Soviet Republic		Wikidata
area	region	1918	Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic		Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1943	Third Battle of Kharkov	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1943	Battle of Sokolovo	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	2023	Shelling of the Nova Poshta branch near Kharkov	war crime, missile strike, mass murder	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	2024	Northern Kharkiv front of the Russo-Ukrainian War	war front	Wikidata
site	museum	1958	Museum of fighting brotherhood in the village	history museum, military museum	Wikidata