Defense of the Adzhimushkay quarry

Defense of the Adzhimushkay Quarry

Part of the Eastern Front of World War II

Date	May 16 – October 30, 1942
Location	Adzhimushkay (now within Kerch), Crimea, USSR 45°22′52″N 36°31′25″E / 45.3812°N 36.5235°E / 45.3812; 36.5235
Result	German victory

Belligerents

Germany

Soviet Union

Commanders and leaders

Erich von Manstein

P.M. Yagunov,

M.G. Povazhniy

Strength

Several regiments

10,000 - 15,000

Casualties and losses

Unknown

10,000+

Crimea and Caucasus

1st Crimea Kerch Peninsula Adzhimushkay Defense Sevastopol Caucasus Kuban bridgehead Kerch–Eltigen Operation 2nd Crimea

The Defense of the Adzhimushkay Quarry (Russian: Оборона Аджимушкайских каменоломен) took part during World War II, between May and October 1942 in the Adzhimushkay suburb of Kerch during the Nazi Germany's occupation of the Crimea.

Notes

References and links

V. Abramov, The Crimean Catastrophe, 1942., Eksmo, 2006, ISBN 5-699-15686-0.

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