The 'Stalingrad Strategic Offensive Operation' was the Soviet formal designation for the 'Uran' battle to cut off the German th Army and part of the 4^th Panzerarmee in Stalingrad (19/30 November 1942).

The 'Stalingrad Strategic Offensive Operation' (19 November 1942/2 February 1942) had five sub-operations, namely 'Uran', the 'Kotelnikovo Offensive Operation' (12/31 December 1942) including the 'Tatsinskaya Raid Operation' (16/28 December 1942), the 'Middle Don Offensive Operation' (otherwise 'Malyi Saturn' (16/30 December 1942, and the 'Koltso Operation' (otherwise 'Ring') (10 January/2 February 1943).