Between the Don and Kuban: Battles of Operational Significance of the Troops of the 12th Army of the Red Army (Late July – Early August 1942)

The article is devoted to the events of the Great Patriotic War, connected with the second attempt of the troops of Nazi Germany to seize the territory of the North Caucasus, namely the confrontation of the Soviet troops of the 12th Army of the North Caucasian Front with the troops of the Wehrmacht during the acute period of the summer German offensive of 1942 using tank and motorized divisions of Army Group A. Newly introduced archival documents stored in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as well as materials published on the portal “Memory of the People”, the works of foreign, Soviet and Russian re-searchers allowed the authors to consider in more detail the reasons for the unsuccessful attempts of the 12th Army to stop the rapid advance of the Wehrmacht troops to the south, which took place between the Don and Kuban rivers in late July – early August 1942.