Don front. The commander of the sixty-second army, Lieutenant General V. I. Chuikov, gives instructions to the chief of staff in the presence of Lieutenant General K. A. Gurov (sinhr.), Talks on the phone with the front commander, Colonel General K. K. Rokossovsky. Chief of Staff of the Sixty-second Army N. I. Krylov reports to the Military Council on the final defeat of the German group in the Stalingrad region.