![]() ![]() The only objective not in Axis hands was Sevastopol. Axis land forces reached the Crimea in the autumn of 1941 and overran most of the area. On 22 June 1941 the Axis invaded the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa. The campaign was fought by the Axis powers of Germany and Romania against the Soviet Union for control of Sevastopol, a port in Crimea on the Black Sea. ![]() ![]() The siege of Sevastopol also known as the defence of Sevastopol ( Russian: Оборона Севастополя, romanized: Oborona Sevastopolya) or the Battle of Sevastopol ( German: Schlacht um Sewastopol Romanian: Bătălia de la Sevastopol) was a military engagement that took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. ![]()
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