Battles of Rzhev Part of the Eastern Front of World War II Date 8 January 1942 – 31 March 1943 Location Rzhev and Velikie Luki salients, Russian SFSR Result Stalemate The Germans abandon the Rzhev salient Belligerents Soviet Union Germany Commanders and leaders Georgy Zhukov Ivan Konev Vasily Sokolovsky Dmitry Lelyushenko Fedor von Bock Günther von Kluge Ludwig Kübler Walter Model Strength Total: 2,100,000 Initial: 668,000 men 2,000 tanks Earmarked for Operation Jupiter: 415,000 men 1,265 tanks Total: 1,659,000 13,000 guns and mortars 1,100 tanks 850 aircraft.[1][2] Casualties and losses Soviet sources: 362,664–433,000 killed 768,233 wounded or sick [3][4] Soviet sources: 330,000 irrecoverable losses 450,000 wounded.[5]German sources: 162,713 KIA 469,747 wounded 35,650 MIA Location within modern-day Russia