| Conflict: | Battle of Rostov (1942) |
| Partof: | Case Blue in the Eastern Front of World War II |
| Place: | Rostov-on-Don region, USSR |
| Date: | 19 July 1942 – 24 July 1942 |
| Result: | German victory |
| Commander1: | Wilhelm List Richard Ruoff Ewald von Kleist Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen Wilhelm von Apell Eberhard von Mackensen |
| Commander2: | Rodion Malinovsky Andrei Grechko Viktor Tsyganov |
| Strength1: | 17th Army |
| Strength2: | Southern Front |
The Battle of Rostov was an episode of the Fall Blau operation, which lasted five days and pitted the 56th Soviet Army, in retreat, against the 17th German Army and 1st Panzer Army which tried to surround it.
It was a definite success for the Germans who, thanks to a "commando" action of the Brandenburg Regiment, took the bridges over the Don, the Bataysk Bridge and the dike to the south of the city and prevented the flooding of swamp, which allowed them to continue their progress towards the Caucasus.