Four battles of World War II around the city of Kharkov in Soviet Ukraine (modern Kharkiv in Ukraine) are known as the Battle of Kharkov: World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ... Kharkov (rus: Ха́рьков) or Kharkiv (ukr: Ха́рків) is the second largest city in Ukraine, a center of Kharkivska oblast. It is situated in the northeast of the country and has a population of two million. ... State motto: Пролетарі всіх країн, єднайтеся! Official language None. ... Vintage view of Kharkov in the 1890s. ...
German 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 took the city for the final time in the Fourth Battle of Kharkov, August 1943.
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It is the administrative center of the Kharkiv Oblast (province), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Kharkivsky Raion (district) within the oblast.
Before the occupation, Kharkiv's tank industries were evacuated to the Urals with all their equipment, and became the heart of Red Army's tank programs (particularly, producing the legendary T-34 tank earlier designed in Kharkiv).
Kharkiv's passenger railway station was reconstructed and expanded in 1901, to be later destroyed in the Second World War.
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