The Southeastern Front was a
front
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of the
Red Army during
World War II.
It was formed on August 5, 1942, out of parts of the
Stalingrad Front, using the command elements from the
First Tank Army and the disbanded
Southern Front. The front's main aim was to prevent the German advance towards the
Volga River and ward off the threat of a German encirclement of
Stalingrad
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.
For this purpose it included :
*
52nd Army (
Vsevolod Yakovlev),
*
57th Army (
Fyodor Tolbukhin),
*
64th Army(
Vasily Chuikov) .
Were later added to the forces of the front :
*
28th Army (
Vasyl Herasymenko),
*
62nd Army (
Anton Lopatin
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),
*
8th Air Army (
Timofey Khryukin).
On September 28 the Southeastern Front was disbanded; most of its forces became the new
Stalingrad Front, whilst the former Stalingrad Front was renamed the
Don Front.
[David M. Glantz, ''Armageddon in Stalingrad'', University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2009, pp 272-73]
Commanders
* Colonel-General
Andrey Yeryomenko;
* Brigadekomissar V. M. Layok (Member of the Military Council - August 1942);
*
Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) Central Committee Secretary
Nikita Khrushchev (Member of the Military Council, August–September 1942);
* Major General G. F. Sakharov (Chief of Staff, August–September 1942).
References
{{Fronts of the Red Army in World War II
Soviet fronts