The Southeastern Front was a
front
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of the
Red Army
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during
World War II
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.
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
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and ward off the threat of a German encirclement of
Stalingrad.
For this purpose it included :
*
52nd Army (
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),
*
57th Army (
Fyodor Tolbukhin
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin (russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Толбу́хин; 16 June 1894 – 17 October 1949) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union.
Early life and military career
Tolbukhin was born into ...
),
*
64th Army(
Vasily Chuikov
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (russian: link=no, Васи́лий Ива́нович Чуйко́в; ; – 18 March 1982) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He is best known for commanding the 62nd Army which saw h ...
) .
Were later added to the forces of the front :
*
28th Army (
Vasyl Herasymenko
Vasyl Herasymenko ( uk, Василь Пилипович Герасименко) was a Soviet military leader from Ukraine who was nominally and temporarily appointed the People's Commissar of Defense of the Ukrainian SSR in 1944-45.
Biography
Vas ...
),
*
62nd Army
The 62nd Army (russian: 62-я армия) was a field army established by the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War. Formed as the 7th Reserve Army as part of the Reserve of the Supreme High Command in May 1942, the formation was des ...
(
Anton Lopatin),
*
8th Air Army
The 8th Air Army was a military formation of the Soviet Air Forces, active from around 1942 to 1949.
It was formed June 13, 1942, order of the NKO number 00119 on June 9, 1942, on the basis of the Air Forces of the Southwestern Front.
Since it ...
(
Timofey Khryukin
Timofey Timofeyevich Khryukin (russian: Тимофе́й Тимофе́евич Хрю́кин; , in Yeysk19 July 1953, in Moscow) was a Soviet aviator, Spanish Civil War volunteer, and colonel-general of the Soviet Air Force. Emerging from an imp ...
).
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 The Don Front was a front of the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War, which existed between September 1942 and February 1943, and was commanded during its entire existence by Konstantin Rokossovsky. The name refers to Don River, Russia.
Fo ...
.
[David M. Glantz, ''Armageddon in Stalingrad'', University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2009, pp 272-73]
Commanders
* Colonel-General
Andrey Yeryomenko
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;
* Brigadekomissar V. M. Layok (Member of the Military Council - August 1942);
*
Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)
The Communist Party of Ukraine ( uk, Комуністична Партія України ''Komunistychna Partiya Ukrayiny'', КПУ, ''KPU''; russian: Коммунистическая партия Украины) was the founding and ruling ...
Central Committee Secretary
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev s ...
(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
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