Voronezh Front

The Voronezh Front ( Воронежский Фронт scientific transliteration Voronežskij Front) was a military formation of the Red Army during the Second World War. The front end was formed in June 1942, when the German troops reached as part of Operation Blue Voronezh. In October 1943 it was renamed the 1st Ukrainian Front.

3.1 Operation Star
3.2 Operation Rumyantsev Polkowodez
3.3 1.Ukrainische front

4.1 Voronezh Front
4.2 1st Ukrainian Front

Voronezh Front 1942-1943

The front took after their preparation in the battle in part to the eponymous city of Voronezh. In December 1942, they led together with the south-western front by the Middle Don operation, in which the 8th Italian Army was smashed. In January 1943, the front smashed in the Voronezh - Kharkov operation, the second Hungarian army and conquered back in February as part of Operation Star Kursk, Belgorod and Kharkov. This operation culminated in March in the Third Battle of Kharkov, in large parts of the previous territorial gains were lost again.

In August 1943, the front was one of the troops, who were concentrated in the Kursk salient. During the Battle of Kursk they defended to the south and led the Battle of Prokhorovka. During surgery Polkowodez Rumyantsev, which began on August 3, 1943, the Voronezh Front was able to conquer both Belgorod and Kharkov. Later in the front participated in the liberation of eastern Ukraine by the Battle of the Dnieper with. On 20 October 1943, she was renamed the 1st Ukrainian Front.

1st Ukrainian Front 1943-1945

Operations

Structure

Operation star

38th, 40th, 60th and 69th Army, 3rd Panzer Army ( later renamed 57th Army ).

Operation Rumyantsev Polkowodez

38th, 40th, 27th, 6th Guards Army, 5th Guards Army and the 1st and 5th Guards Tank Army.

1.Ukrainische front

3rd and 4th Guards Tank Army, 3rd and 5th Guards Army, 13, 21, 28, 31, 52 and 59 Army
2nd Air Army

Front command

Voronezh front

Filipp Ivanovich Golikov Lieutenant General (June 1942)
Lieutenant General Nikolai Fedorovich Watutin ( June-October 1942)
Lieutenant General FI Golikov ( October 1942 - March 1943 ) (1943 Colonel-General since January )
Colonel-General NF Watutin ( March-October 1943) ( since February 1943 Army General )
Corps Commissioner IS Sussaikow ( Member of the Military Council, July-September 1942)
Corps Commissioner Lew Sacharowitsch Mechlis ( Member of the Military Council, September-October 1942)
Army Commissar 2nd rank Fyodor Kuznetsov Fedotowitsch ( October 1942 - March 1943 ) (since December 1942 Lieutenant General )
Lieutenant General Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (member of the Military Council, March-October 1943)
Major General KW Krainjukow ( Member of the Military Council, October 1943 )
Major-General FI Shevchenko ( Chief of Staff, July 1942 )
Major General MI Kazakov ( Chief of Staff, July 1942 - February 1943 ) (1943 Lieutenant General since January )
Major General AP Pilipenko ( Chief of Staff, February-March 1943)
Major General FK Korschenwitsch ( Chief of Staff, March-May 1943)
Lieutenant General SP Ivanov ( Chief of Staff, May-October 1943)

1st Ukrainian Front

Army General N.F. Watutin ( October 1943 - March 1944 )
Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov ( March-May 1944)
Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev of the Soviet Union (May 1944 - end of war )
Lieutenant General Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (member of the Military Council, October 1943 - August 1944 )
Major General KW Krainjukow ( Member of the Military Council, October 1943 - end of war ) (1944 Lieutenant General since March )
Lieutenant General SP Ivanov ( Chief of Staff, October-November 1943)
Lieutenant-General AN Bogolyubov ( Chief of Staff, November 1943 - April 1944 )
Army General Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky ( chief of staff, April 1944 - April 1945 )
Army General Ivan Efimovich Petrov ( chief of staff, April 1945 - end of war )

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