The Battle of Spartanovka was a battle fought between the German Wehrmacht's XIV Panzer Corps and the Soviet Red Army's 124th Rifle Brigade, 62nd Army on 31 August 1942 amid the Battle of Stalingrad.
As the XIV Pazner Corps punched through to the Volga at Rynok, the 16th Panzer Division was tasked with expanding the corridor. This division pushed south into the small town of Spartanovka on Stalingrad's northern outskirts, almost within sight of the tractor factory. The division's winded forces came up against the fresh troops of the Soviet 124th Rifle Brigade, but, while the Soviet brigade had seen very little combat and had barely had time to prepare a defense, the German soldiers were in high spirits and offensive mode. The overstretched German corps stalled against the vicious and stubborn defensive line forming north of Stalingrad, and they were briefly cut off by desperate Soviet counterattacks before the rest of the German 6th Army caught up in time to break through to them again and avoid a major embarrassment.