The Urals War was a series of intense battles and skirmishes engaged between the German and Soviet armies. The Red Army concentrated on fighting an effective guerrilla war against the Nazis in order to inflict mass casualties then push them back from the region. Germany could concentrate on fighting in the USSR after the Allied offensive had stalled in the 1944-45 Battle of the Hürtgen Forest. Aktobe, Ufa, Kazan and Orenburg would also see some heavy fighting to as the Soviets and local militias dug in at various pints along the way.