After the Battle of Stalingard , what title was the city Moscow awarded with in 1965 ?
Low Red Army reserves and Wehrmacht tactical skill led to a bloody stalemate near Rzhev , known as the " Rzhev meat grinder " , and to a string of Red Army defeats , such as the Second Battle of Kharkov , the failed attempt at elimination of the Demyansk pocket , and the encirclement of General Vlasov 's army near Leningrad in a failed attempt to lift the siege of the city .