WW2 in the Caucasus: Every Day

[@nicknameless27]

Hello, I love your work, but I have to point out something. In this period the administrative borders in the region were somewhat different. The northern part of North Ossetian ASSR with the town of Mozdok and the corridor to it was transfered to it after March 1 1944. The same is true of northern part of Dagestan with the city of Kizlyar and also also northern part of Chechnya, which together with Ingushetia were part of one Chechen-Ingush ASSR, while Karachai and Cherkessia were separate autonomous oblasts within Ordzhonikidze Krai. The various administrative changes in the region began on 12th October 1943, and while it's definitely easier to show post 1957 borders, they're not exactly accurate.

[@yanxishan6575]

Thank you. You will also notice that the northern border of Kursk oblast is incorrect as well.

[@nominkhanaarsalang154]

kalmyk assr was a lot bigger as well

[@friedrichafton1980]

Ordzhonikidzevsky Krai January 13, 1943, together with Voroshilovsk, were renamed the Stavropol Krai, and the city of Stavropol. In any case, the renaming of the city in the author's video is indicated, which is nice. Personally, I know this because I live in this region. Thanks to the author!

[@rolandantimapian1407]

​@@OccasionalMaps Ur just an idiot

[@acssgde3113]

Read about "divizia de cremene" axis army (german+ romanian) in caucasus

[@WarDestinyMapping]

After waiting for a year, very glad to see Yan Xishan come back, it is really a qualitied work!

[@TheCoolGuy-ju1hx]

抓到野生War destiny

[@WarDestinyMapping]

@@TheCoolGuy-ju1hx 👋

[@JaxFacts]

*mapping video

[@stephmod7434]

Hi.

[@zavi7919]

Wow, such incredible work as always! I never realized the axis advanced into Georgia and Chechnya, reached the Caspian Sea, or relieved a siege in Chechnya because no other mappers ever show it. This channel is truly a tier above all others

[@milotura6828]

Many forget how close the germans were here. Stalingrad was the last fortress.

[@williamzhang100]

I'll believe your input

[@syafiqsyafiq9346]

@@milotura6828 Mark Felton himself noted that the Germans were close to Astrakhan and only had on recon unit in the Caspian Sea coastline. The rest is history.

[@milotura6828]

@@syafiqsyafiq9346 yes I saw that video. I hadn't known they got that far at the time.

[@Ибрагим-ф2ш]

Немцы не продвигались в Грузию

[@duduchannel6729]

Imagine marching from Berlin to the mountains of Georgia, what a tale to tell

[@diegoyqulki]

Imagine marching from moscow to Berlín in 4 year

[@Diagorasofmelos20]

And vice versa, when Meliton Kantaria set foot on the Reichstag for the first time, it was also a great achievement

[@duduchannel6729]

@@Diagorasofmelos20 Yeah, that's even more astonishing because he was from a village

[@The_last_prime]

​@@diegoyqulki no, youd most likely be dead there were only a few soldiers on both sides which survival the war. The soldiers life expetency in the eastern front was only a few weeks.

[@mereassassinates550]

@@diegoyqulkiyet they still beat the Americans there 😂😂😂😂

[@liamsweeen]

The man, The Myth, The legend has returned with another banger for us Map Nerds!!! Love the details shown on all the 472 Frames!!!

[@shileetan625]

When the world needed him most, he returned.

[@Randomdude112]

Omg overrated comment alert

[@tunityguy]

​@@Randomdude112 who gives a fuck

[@junokyael]

Overused Unfunny Unoriginal Annoying Joke

[@samwallace9387]

Bro took it personally

[@DoctorDeath147]

@@junokyael overused annoying reply

[@SLAPPEDbyAhat]

It’s amazing to see the great battle for the Kalmyk steppe fully realized in flowing colors! The overall attention to detail is also impress. You even managed to include minor skirmishes like the Stalingrad pocket!

[@ColdSlav]

As always, delivering with high-quality content. Nice job.

[@samdaman2939]

Amazingly detailed. Not surprising, coming from you. I’m glad you’re back!

[@SheikahMapping]

The Queen of Mapping finally returned! Amazing video!

[@BritanniaItalia]

your return brings me great happiness :)

[@Koopinator]

Amazing work Yan! Glad you used my music suggestions.

[@advocatusdiaboli4861]

It's good to have you back. Seeing as we get bits and pieces of WW2 every now and then, can it be assumed that that's what you'll keep doing in the near future - as in, animating regional operations of WW2?

[@yanxishan6575]

Most videos I make in the future will be about regional operations of the Eastern Front. But I might make videos on other things. In particular, the Three Feudatories Rebellion and the Great Turkish War are topics I have the research for completed and I would like to make videos of them at some point. I have partially finished a video on the Rebellion of the Seven States, but it may not be released any time soon.

[@oasis1282]

​@@yanxishan6575 Operation Bagration or Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive would be nice.

[@MedicinaScience]

@@yanxishan6575 What will be the next front? Leningrad, Operation Citadel, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland?

[@pelsckopolesko]

@@yanxishan6575can you do some fronts on the Russian civil war? (Like those notes you gave koopinator about the civil war in his ww1 in Arabia video

[@whiteingale]

@@yanxishan6575 I am actually happy you do these videos, because it is something I was curious about myself. Despite being russian, I ironically no only surface level history about the German-Soviet great war, I would like to see the battle of moscow too.

[@sebastian4238]

legitimately the greatest mapper making content today

[@Carl-Gauss]

2:07 Notice the landing in the Bottom of the screen rear Novorossiysk. It’s so called “Malaya Zemlya”, future Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev fought there.

[@justacat2]

wow interesting

[@nice5396]

Glad to see another detailed map timeline video!

[@nahtatroll]

The legend is back!

[@ForlordFr]

Great to see more of your work, really well done again, best i can find everytime

[@dapizzasnake8462]

THE LEGEND RETURNS with high quality mapping.

[@fahoodie1852]

Good to see you posting again, well done

[@Sdsyu]

Fantastic music and quality ❤

[@nahuel5856]

He’s back!!We’ve all been waiting for you I have a suggestion that might not take as much time to make, the battle of Berlin

[@arsikphonegreat]

When I heard the first music, I was like “I heard that before!” And yep, it’s from one of my favourite games, SMG2! Great video, by the way.

[@Ark4dlusZ]

what's the exact music name? it have a lot of themes

[@yanxishan6575]

Hurry! (Yoshi)

[@Ark4dlusZ]

@@yanxishan6575 thanks, Yan amazing video btw!

[@Loggog]

One of the best mappers returning!

[@tjxure]

after long, the legend is back!

[@SuchDarkness]

Good job on the video. So detailed with all the cities and province borders

[@popcorn8411]

What a spectacularly detailed video

[@heremapping4484]

This is very impressive, I like tot think I can tell when detail is made up and when it is researched with precision, and this clearly falls into the ladder.

[@Normal_Boii]

The legend has uploaded!

[@TnlGC]

0:51 Never knew that the Germans managed to fully cut off the Caucasus from the Soviets before

[@rafradeki]

it was just a patrol, as the area was completely undefended

[@gregxter6755]

@@rafradeki Do you know which patrol managed to reach the Caspian sea?

[@globe0147]

@@rafradekimakes you wonder why they didn’t split the line in two, I’m no Military expert but that seems like the go?

[@verpix4956]

@@globe0147 I'm no expert either, but I think that splitting the Soviets in 2 like that wouldn't have achieved any strategic goals. The brunt of the fighting was happening on the rivers in the northern sector of the Caucasus and if they tried splitting, it would only stretch their frontlined, giving the Soviets more to encircle during a counteroffensive. + It would be tough to supply the German divisions that far, they were already at their max capacity.

[@globe0147]

@@verpix4956 if they cut them off and took the rest of the Southern Cacauses it would greatly reduce the frontline length and able to Reassign these divisions along the Volga

[@macedoniaoneandindivisible8127]

Nice to have you back man

[@whitemouse7854]

This channel is so good.

[@Dariusz_1.618]

What happened on 23th May 1943 ? In Utta. Also great work. We are waiting for another WW1/WW2 fronts :)

[@maxpaxe5677]

The legend is back

[@micahistory]

Great video, welcome back

[@schynobonk]

i love your content! glad you're back ^^

[@sqone1]

man really put mario galaxy music on a map video best channel ever

[@YeastCartography]

A long running tradition

[@sqone1]

@Authentic KO the song names are in the description

[@sqone1]

@Authentic KO sorry, i think they used to be in the description before they got removed. the song is Hurry! (Yoshi) from Super Mario Galaxy 2

[@TheCharlieChen]

You have finally returned!!!!!

[@LGHANgwen]

Finally, after 5 months - a year the legend is back

[@_fontoura]

Glad to see you again!

[@Ottoman_mapper_53]

Very good video and very detailed, respect

[@tie_advanced1]

YOU ARE ALIVE! HE IS BACK!

[@outerspace7391]

Awesome! And you're back too!!

[@abcogien]

THE LEGEND IS BACK

[@kenanhasan9784]

Great work and Welcome 😊

[@AnimatedWarMapper]

Great episode!

[@JupiterVortex]

All your works are of good quality

[@unofficial_computer]

I'm afraid there is an inaccuracy here. The farthest advance of the Wehrmacht towards the Caspian Sea were German raids on the rail lines located between Kizlayer and Grozny in September of 1942. These raids occurred during the last stages of the German Fall Blau (Case Blue) offensive. They weren't even in visible range of the Caspian Sea. But other than that, it is a very informative and awesome video.

[@yanxishan6575]

What seems to have happened here is that I accidentally misplaced the railway as being along the Caspian coast in that region. Thank you for the correction!

[@ruberxwibebadhi]

@@yanxishan6575 wait didn't a German patrol reach Caspian sea? it wasn't captured but sill kind of counts as advance.

[@ruberxwibebadhi]

@@yanxishan6575 yea i found this online "It is said that a recon unit from the 16 Inf.Div.(mot) reached the Caspian coast south of Astrakhan in September 1942. They didn't stay long and rejoined their division in Elista." the 1st adjutant of Paulus points out that the recon force of XIV motocorps actually reached Caspian sea. It was also confirmed by workers who were constructing railway near Astrahan. They claimed that they saw tanks with black crosses in the dunes. The mayor of Stalingrad was forced to arm these workers and issued some NKVD troops to guard them (or maybe shoot the workers once they panic) another account states: "Paul Carell in his 'Hitlers War on Russia' devotes a few pages to this. On the 13.9.42 two reconnaissance squads from the 16th Mot. Inf.Div. were charged with advanced reconnaissance from Utta where it's 2nd Co. (?) may have had it's command post towards the Volga and Caspian. Each detachment consisted of a couple of 8-wheeler armoured cars, a motor-cykle platoon, a medical ambulance,several trucks with supplies and technicians. One squad got off in a NE direction where it reached to within some 6km of the lower Volga in front of Sadovskaya which was defended, and it seems the squad returned. The second squad set out to the SE 'to confirm the existence of a railway from Baku to Astrakhan' along the Caspian coast. (seems funny...?) They reached the railway on 15.9. at a small siding named Zeneli.They surprised the station staff (mostly deported Ukrainians) and were lucky to arrive just before a loaded oil-train chugged in which the Germans promptly shot up before blasting the station-house and the rail-line. Just before - the station telephone had rung and 'Astrakhan' quickly discovered that something was wrong at Zeneli - the alarm went off and the German squad promptly returned west. Zeneli seems to be some 10 - 15 km off the Caspian and the Germans never actually sighted the Caspian Sea.Nor got to the lower Volga. But - true to the German form in WW2 - 'within an ace' of it."

[@unofficial_computer]

@@yanxishan6575 That's A-okay!

[@marianobosch04]

@@yanxishan6575 I'm confused, so the Germans reached the Caspian Sea or not?

[@stellajuuno995]

Here we go again. The master himself returned.

[@velozio]

Glad you're back!

[@МаксимПрокудин-э9г]

Hello from Caucasus. City of Nal'chik. Cool video

[@LutherusPXCs]

The return of the king

[@BalkanMike]

Really interesting to see that Germany reached so near to the Georgian border during that time

[@superilikeeggsyo]

The orchestrated super saiyan theme from DBZ kicking in when Operation Uranus kicked in was gold.

[@yanxishan6575]

I have a friend who is a fan of DBZ, and that was his suggestion. So you can thank him.

[@seruyti]

what’s the song from 0:00 to 1:24??

[@iamothemakhnovist20]

None of these words are in the Bible

[@NOSTAL_40]

Hello From Azerbaijan.. Fact 1: Azerbaijani 700.000+ people to fight for USSR and 400.000+ man is died in war ... God Bless Innocent People Fact 2: USSR use 70% oil from Baku (Azerbaijan) this so helpful and effective thing for war 1941-1943 And also Nice work , so real

[@alizonnwn]

great work!

[@bogdkhan1669]

Glad to see you still drawing breath!

[@MichałChełminiak-g4d]

3:03 can someone explain what happened their east of Elista?

[@Matthew_080]

Great video! For what I can see, rivers are very important in wars and are hard to cross for an army.

[@friedolin705]

What happend in Utta, Kalmykia on 23.05.1934? (3:02)

[@astronafter832]

Судя по всему, операция "Арийцы". Но здесь, судя по всему ошибка, так как высадка диверсантов была в 1944 году, не 43.

[@oajajaj]

​@@astronafter832Different operations but same goals, the Germans wanted to have contact with the kamyk rebels.

[@sabasaba15892]

It is very high-quality, I wish you success, I hope you will soon do the China-Mongolia wars

[@franzjosephikaiservonaustr5525]

Nice, new Yan Xishan video Keep up the good work bro 👍

[@熱愛遊戲的玩家]

A great video about a battle that had a major impact on the war, Even shows the enlargement of the Ukrainian Reichskommissariat of September 1, 1942, according to the decree of August 12, 1942

[@Dan-xt7sv]

Did Reichskommissariat Ukraine include Crimea?

[@KolchaksGhost]

@@Dan-xt7sv no, I don’t know why it’s dark grey

[@WFHermans]

@@Dan-xt7sv No. Even Hitler didn't go as far as Zelensky and NATO.

[@Testimony_Of_JTF]

@@WFHermans You do notice Ukraine received Crimea during the Soviet times, right?

[@mulan-jinglesemusicas1513]

@@Testimony_Of_JTF bizarre internal borders didnt make difference in soviet times, since it was part of the same country and people could move they didnt care it could cause problems later, since they tought soviet would last forever but it didnt just see Armenian border....

[@Phed98]

The Wehrmacht stopped its advancing exactly when the flat areas finished. Not a coincidence, the German Armed Forces wasn't created to fight in mountainous areas.

[@OrionAltHist]

You're finally back.

[@tornagh9200]

Good work, but it would have been good to see Steiner's 1945 counteroffensive included.

[@fishandmaps]

you have returned!

[@1337A]

I was just watching some of your videos yesterday, what a coincidence!

[@dook6679]

I never knew the germans actually reached the Caspian

[@zoompt-lm5xw]

Great work Subscribed

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

The king has returned

[@samlosco8441]

I wonder what the next move would have been for Germany had Fall Blau been a complete success. After conquering the Caucasus, Iran would also have to be considered since the British and Soviets had jointly occupied the country. I know there were plans at one point for German forces to meet in the Middle East after victory in Africa and the USSR, but of course the African campaign was largely doomed by late 1942. Would they have struck for Moscow in summer 1943? Or perhaps a far northern offensive to cut off Murmansk and thus choke even more of the Allied supply reaching the USSR. I still think Germany would have lost the war, but it's interesting to theorise about how different things would have been if Fall Blau had been a success.

[@WFHermans]

The plan was to conquer Leningrad and rebuild heavy industry in the Ukraine next. But with Iran occupied by the Allies and now bordering to German occupied Caucasus, it is likely there would be an effort to liberate Iran as well.

[@cqpp]

​@@WFHermans which might potentially be followed by Afghanistan entering the war on the side of the Axis initiating the 4th Anglo-Afghan war to retake the Pashtun speaking regions and launch an invasion into British Raj applying pressure while the Raj was already dealing with a Japanese invasion from the East, the Soviet central Asian front would also be opened further straining Soviet resources.

[@joekaputt4415]

If Germany conquered the Caucasus, it still had a chance to conquer the Soviet Union, since oil was all they needed to build more tanks, motorize more divisions and supply more divisions

[@pyrius3823]

@@joekaputt4415 Nope, Germany never had a chance to conquer the Soviet Union at any point. The Wehrmacht themselves even before Barbarossa concluded that in real terms, they had no chance to topple the USSR. Hitler's belief was that the Soviets where "Untermenschen", and believed that the USSR was being run by the Jews, even in Hitler's eyes the only measure for German Victory was that once they had "Kicked the door in, the whole rotten structure would collapse", IE they were banking really on the political collapse of the USSR, not on militarily defeating them, it was also based on perceived weaknesses due to the Winter War, as well as the (atleast this is true) incapability for the Soviet Army to make an initial defense due to Stalin's "Restructuring" of the Armed Forces and Political High Command. In regards to the Caucasus, it is a complete myth mostly made up by Reddit "Historians" and people who play HOI4. The Caucuses had a lot of oil, true, but the Germans had they managed to occupy the area still wouldn't have been able to utilize it. All of the Oil Fields was in range of Iran, which was jointly occupied by both Britain and the USSR and as such in bombing range, and even then the Soviets would have just destroyed all the Oil Fields if they where to lose the area. Not just that but the Caucasus where thousands of miles away from Berlin, logistically even had the Oil Fields not been destroyed, the Oil would not have been able to go anywhere, you got to think of pipelines, refinement etc. Also the idea that it was just lack of fuel the reason the Germans failed to win WW2 is literally Nazi propaganda, I kid you not. Germany's whole performance in WW2 was based on luck really, they would not have even got past France had the French properly garrisoned the Ardennes, as the encirclement of the entire BEF and most of the Standing French Army in the Benelux and Dunkirk is what led to France's rapid defeat - same with the USSR, had Stalin not completely gutted the entirety of the Soviet Army high command and had not had an unfaltering trust of Hitler then the Germans would've never even made it past Minsk.

[@KyojuroRengoku98]

​@pyrius3823 Wrong.

[@黃瓊櫻-b7k]

謝謝您的影片

[@Franfran2424]

Good t see you back!!!

[@Felipe1954AC]

Definitivamente uno de mis canales favoritos

[@andreideregla8218]

You don't know how much I need this thing for my studies today since I've been searching the battle on Caucasus since the ones I've been reading are too vague

[@CAProductions051]

I learned something new about WW2

[@kalkuttadrop6371]

I am a huge fan of your work. If you take suggestions, I would simply like to ask about the earliest phase of the Afghanistan War. The Saur Revolution in 1978 that put the communists in power, and the proceeding insurrections and uprisings in the following year and a half that would gradually take over the countryside until, by the time of the soviet intervention in December 1979, the whole country outside of the highways and major cities was in rebel hands. Really I'd like to learn about that very specific period of time, April 1978- December 1979, since it's never been covered by mappers.

[@kerenskiiboi123vn6]

Aftet a year of waiting, he returned! Our comrade Yan Xishan❤️💪

[@TheCoolGuy-ju1hx]

YOU ARE BACK

[@yus527_au]

Good video like always.

[@FirstCommandmentRigorist]

The legend is back!!!!!! (Could you do a red turben rebellion/Yuan-Ming transition video?) :D

[@Thecognoscenti_1]

Welcome back!

[@dragonrykr]

What happened on 22 May 1943 in Kalmykia?

[@yanxishan6575]

German paratroopers and pro-Axis Kalmyk insurgents briefly captured the town of Utta.

[@MichałChełminiak-g4d]

@@yanxishan6575 Is there any article or source I can read about it?

[@NuiJagaa]

I had to do a double take when that rearrangement of the Super Saiyan Transformation theme from the Funimation dub of DBZ played at the start of Uranus, very unexpected but weirdly fitting.

[@davidmargarita77]

Interesting choice to have Mario music playing during your war Timelapse animation, but I think it worked shockingly well

[@theocraft0143]

The king is back

[@AnarchyMaid]

What happened here on May 23rd 1943? 3:03

[@gamevideochannel1550]

훌륭한 영상이었습니다!

[@djaziz1953]

This man's videos make you feeling about that gloomy and epic mood of the Second World War.

[@Clock_Man_2763]

Hello from Georgia 🇬🇪💖

[@romansotnikov5375]

Hello. I hope that you don't support gray guy.

[@PlushPineapple]

@@romansotnikov5375 ??? what?

[@goodstuff8156]

Another good one

[@ukdivisionsfa7737]

Plan Blue was an outrageously failed plan, and Paulus' group should have been covering troops attacking the Caucasus Mountains, not storming Stalingrad. Even if Operation Uranus was launched, Paulus's elite troops could hold the front line, and after the Caucasus campaign, it would be correct for the two groups to converge and attack Stalingrad. However, before the end of the Caucasus campaign, the troops covering the Caucasus were put into the second battlefield and suffered a large loss. This was the cause of the collapse.

[@legend9181]

Stalingrad was the main supply route for Caucasus. Stalingrad would maybe not have been collapsed if Stalingrad's flanks were covered by some real troops instead of some romanians with guns.

[@AlOstosman]

My Man Came Out Of The Grave And Delivered This

[@OttoTheDoge]

0:50 Wait, did the Germans reach the Caspian sea?

[@Fezzezal]

My great grandfather has taken part in Battle for Stalingrad. He was a sergeant in the artillery regiment of Red Army. He's got an Order of the Red Star for that battle. Eternal Memory to our heroes...

[@adamnowak2137]

You are alive!!!

[@RussianDemocrat]

*Greetings from the Caucasus* 💙

[@achannel6779]

I just found out that germany split the Caucasus and mainland USSR

[@andrefarfan4372]

Welcome back.