Donfront
The Don front was formed on 30 September 1942 by order of the Soviet High Command on 28 September 1942, the south-western direction through the renaming of the Stalingrad front.
The structure of the Don front were the 1st Guards, 21st, 24th, 63rd and 66th Army ( from 22 October, the 65th Army ), 4th Panzer and 16th Air Army, as of January 1, 1943 were also the 57th, 62nd and 64th Army to the front. At the beginning of the Stalingrad strategic offensive operation the strength of the front was 307,500 men, 161 tanks, 4,177 guns and 202 aircraft. In October and the first half of November 1942, the front led as part of Operation Uranus offensive and defensive operations against the Romanian 3rd Army north of Stalingrad by what compelled the enemy to move a portion of its forces to the north, and thus the to weaken attack on those formed from the southeastern front new Stalingrad front. As of November 19, 1942, the Don front supported the Stalingrad strategic offensive operation of the Southwest and the Stalingrad Front had the inclusion of a 330,000 -strong opposition grouping result. In the course of the operation Kolzo ( "Ring ") was destroyed between 10 January and 2 February 1943, the German 6th Army at Stalingrad.
On February 15, 1943, the Don front was renamed on the orders of Soviet High Command on 5 February 1943 in central front.
High Command
- Lieutenant General KK Rokossovsky ( as of January 1943, General Colonel )
- Corps Commissioner A. S. Scheltow ( Member of the Military Council, September-October 1942)
- Brigade Commissioner A. I. Kirichenko ( Member of the Military Council, October-December 1942)
- Major General K.F. Telegin ( Member of the Military Council, December 1942 - February 1943 ).
- Major General M. S. Malinin ( Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General from December 1942 ).
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