By the end of January, the battle for the Barrikady Gun Factory, Bread Factory #2, and the strip of land between these factories and the Volga had raged incessantly for three months. Individual houses, work halls, gullies, and nameless features in the devastated landscape had changed hands multiple times. The German 6th Army had been encircled for two months, but continued to fiercely defend the soil and rubble, for which so much blood had been shed. On 26 January, the encircling Soviet 21st Army linked up with 62nd Army in the city, splitting the German pocket. Two days later, the veteran 95th Rifle Division began to sink its teeth into enemy defenses on the grounds of the Barrikady Factory. Its three depleted Rifle Regiments began their attack at 1100 hours; two regiments assaulted Hall 6e at the southeastern tip of the complex, while the third advanced towards the bakery and the western edge of the Barrikady. The exhausted Landsers of the 305th Infantry Division prepared to repel· the attack, as their hopes for survival dwindled with each passing winter's day.
2022 Chicago Open (Round 1). The Russians executed a double envelopment of the Germans, taking the 13 factory hexes by turn 4. The Germans were too weak to counter attack and conceded the game.
