The 2nd Ukrainian Front (2-й Украинский фронт), was a front of the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

during the

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History

On October 20, 1943 the Steppe Front was renamed the 2nd Ukrainian Front. During the

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, 2nd Ukrainian Front, led by Army General

Rodion Malinovsky Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky (russian: Родио́н Я́ковлевич Малино́вский, ukr, Родіо́н Я́кович Малино́вський ; – 31 March 1967) was a Soviet military commander. He was Marshal of the Sov ...

, comprised: *

6th Guards Tank Army The 6th Guards Order of Red Banner Tank Army was a tank army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first formed in January 1944 as the 6th Tank Army,Glantz (Companion), p. 66. and disbanded in Ukraine in the 1990s after the dissolution of the Soviet Un ...

– Major General A.G. Kravchenko *

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–

Ivan Galanin Ivan Vasilievich Galanin (; –12 November 1958) was a Red Army lieutenant general during World War II. Galanin was drafted into the Red Army in 1919 and fought as an ordinary soldier in the Russian Civil War. He became an officer during the inte ...

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– Lieutenant General M.S. Shumilov * 27th Army – Lieutenant General S.G. Trofimenko * 40th Army – Lieutenant General

Filipp Zhmachenko Filipp Feodosyevich Zhmachenko (russian: Филипп Феодосьевич Жмаченко; – 19 June 1966) was a Soviet Army colonel general and Hero of the Soviet Union. Biography Zhmachenko was born on 26 November 1895 to a Ukrainian ...

* 52nd Army – Lieutenant General K.A. Koroteev * 53rd Army – Lieutenant General

Ivan Managarov Ivan Mefodyevich Managarov (; – 27 November 1981) was a Soviet Army colonel general and a Hero of the Soviet Union who held field army command during World War II. A decorated veteran of the Imperial Russian Army, Managarov fought as a cavalry ...

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– Major General V.I. Polozkov * Cavalry-Mechanized Group Gorshkov – Major General

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5th Guards Cavalry Corps The 5th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Corps () was a cavalry corps of the Red Army during World War II. History The corps was formed on 19 November 1942 as the 5th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Corps, assigned to the Northern Group of Forces of the ...

** 23rd Tank Corps – Lieutenant General Alexey Akhmanov On 1 January 1945, during the

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, the Front consisted of the *

, * 27th Army * 40th Army * 53rd Army *

, * a Cavalry mechanized group consisting of 4th and 6th Guards Cavalry Corps, *

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. On 10 June 1945, in accordance with a Stavka directive of 29 May 1945, the 2nd Ukrainian Front was disbanded. Elements thereof were incorporated into Headquarters

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. The 12th Air Defence Corps (12 корпус ПВО), established from the Odessa Corps Air Defence Area (Одесский корпусной район ПВО) on 21.04.1944, provided air defence to the 2nd Ukrainian Front until 01.02.1945, except for its 61st AAA Division ((1776, 1778, 1780, 1782 and 1784 AAA regiments and the 6th AA Lighting Regiment), which provided air defence to the 1st Ukrainian Front.

Commanders

* Army General

Ivan Konev Ivan Stepanovich Konev ( rus, link=no, Ива́н Степа́нович Ко́нев, p=ɪˈvan sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ ˈkonʲɪf; – 21 May 1973) was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the ...

(July 1943 – May 1944; since February 1944 Marshal of the Soviet Union) * Army General

(May 1944 – May 1945; since September 1944 Marshal of the Soviet Union)

References

{{Fronts of the Red Army in World War II U Military units and formations established in 1943

History

Commanders

See also

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