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Battle of Kharkov
Four battles of World War II around the city of Kharkiv (Kharkov in Russian) in Soviet Ukraine are known as the Battle of Kharkov:
- Axis troops captured the city in the First Battle of Kharkov , 1941.
- Soviet forces retook it in the Second Battle of Kharkov, May 1942, but were cut off and destroyed.
- Soviet forces retook the city after the battle of Stalingrad but were driven out again in the Third Battle of Kharkov in February 1943.
- Soviet forces took the city for the final time in the Fourth Battle of Kharkov , August 1943.
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