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A Front (фронт) was a major military organization in the Soviet Army, roughly equivalent to an army group in the military terminology of other countries. It should not to be confused with the more general usage of military front, describing a geographic area in wartime.

An interesting and important distinction between the two is that a Soviet front typically has its own organic tactical fixed-wing air force of Army level. This Air Army is directly subordinated to the Frontal commander (typically a ground commander). The entire front might report either to STAVKA or a TVD, or teatr voennykh deistvii—"theatre of military operations".

Soviet fronts were raised during the Polish-Soviet War, Invasion of Poland (Byelorussian and Ukrainian) and the Second World War.

During the Cold War, fronts and their staffs were integrated with various military districts, or became "Group of Soviet Forces in a Warsaw Pact nation. It should be noted that not all Military Districts rated a Front. Thus some Military Districts do not have an organic Air Army.

List of Soviet Fronts in the Civil War

  • Northern Front
  • Eastern Front
  • Turkestani Front
  • Caucasian Front
  • Southeastern Front
  • Southern Front
  • Ukrainian Front
  • Southwestern Front
  • Western Front

List of Soviet fronts in World War II

Soviet fronts during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945:
  • Baltic Fronts
  • 1st Baltic Front: Formed from Kalinin Front late 1943.
  • 2nd Baltic Front: Formed from Bryansk Front on 10 October 1943. On 1 October 1944 consisted of:
  • 3rd Shock Army
  • 79RC (150, 171, 207RD), 100RC (21G, 28, 200RD)
  • 10th Guards Army
  • 7GRC (7, 8, 119GRD), 15GRC (29, 30, 85GRD), 19GRC (22, 56, 65GRD), 78TB
  • 22nd Army
  • 93RC (219, 379, 391RD), 130RC (43G, 308RD), 37RD, 155FR, 118TB
  • 42nd Army
  • 110RC (2, 168, 268RD), 124RC (48, 123, 256RD), 118FR, 29GTB
  • 15th Air Army
  • 14Fighter Aviation Corps (4, 148, 293FigAvR), 188Bomber AvD, 214, 225Assault AvD, 284, 313Fighter-Bomber AvD
  • Front Reserve
  • 5TC (24, 41, 70TB, 5MotRB)
  • 3rd Baltic Front
  • Bryansk Front - Created 18 December 1941, to take sector between the Western and Southwestern Fronts. During the Battle of Kursk the Front consisted of the 11th, 3rd, 4th Tank, 61st, and 63rd Armies. Disbanded 11/12 March 1943. Reformed from Orel Front 28 March 1943.
  • Belorussian Fronts (alternative spellings are Byelorussian Front and Belarusian Front)
  • 1st Belorussian Front
  • 2nd Belorussian Front
  • 3rd Belorussian Front
  • Caucasus Front - renamed Belorussian Front late 1943
  • Central Front
  • Crimean Front - formed January 1942 to reconquer the Crimea, incorporating 44th, 47th, and 51st Armies
  • Don Front
  • Far East Front
  • 1st Far East Front
  • 2nd Far East Front
  • Kalinin Front - the Kalinin Front was formally established by Stavka directive on 17 October 1941, and allocated three armies - 22nd, 29th and 30th. (Erickson 1975) Renamed 1st Baltic Front Oct-Dec 1943. (Glantz, 2005, p.495)
  • Karelian Front - formed from Northern Front, along with Leningrad Front, on 23 August 1941.
  • Kursk Front
  • Leningrad Front - formed from Northern Front, along with Karelian Front, on 23 August 1941.
  • Moscow Line of Defense
  • Moscow Reserve Front
  • Mozhaysk Line of Defense
  • North Caucasus Front - redesignated TC Front's Black Sea Group of Forces, 1 September 1942
  • Northern Front - formed from Leningrad Military District on 24 June 1941
  • North-Western Front - formed from Baltic Special Military District on 22 June 1941
  • Orel Front - created 24 March 1943 to defend opposite the tip of the German salient east of Orel. Comprised of Western Front's 61st Army, Central Front's 3rd Army, and 15th Air Army. Redesignated Bryansk Front 28 March 1943.
  • Army Group of Primorye
  • Reserve Front - Front of Reserve Armies formed 14 July 1941
  • Southeastern Front - formed from armies on Stalingrad Front's left wing, 7 August 1942. Redesignated Stalingrad Front 28 September 1942.
  • Southern Front - renamed 4th Ukrainian Front 20 October 1943.
  • Southwestern Front - Formed initially on 22 June 1941. Reestablished 22 October 1942 between Don and Voronezh Fronts. Renamed 3rd Ukrainian Front 20 October 1943.
  • Stalingrad Front - Along with Voronezh Front, formed from remnants of Southwestern Front July 1942. Became Don Front 28 September 1942.
  • Steppe Front - renamed 2nd Ukrainian Front 20 October 1943.
  • Transbaikal Front
  • Transcaucasian Front - formed 23 August 1941
  • Ukrainian Fronts
  • 1st Ukrainian Front
  • 2nd Ukrainian Front
  • 3rd Ukrainian Front
  • 4th Ukrainian Front
  • Volkhov Front - formed 17 December 1941
  • Voronezh Front - renamed 1st Ukrainian Front 20 October 1943.
  • Western Front - formed from Western Special Military District on 22 June 1941

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armed forces of a state are its government-sponsored defense and fighting forces and organizations used to further the objectives of the state. They exist to further the foreign and domestic policies of their governing body.
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Red Army (Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия, Raboche-Krest'yanskaya K
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army group is a military organization (formation) consisting of several field armies, and is supposed to be self-sufficient for indefinite periods. An army group is usually responsible for a particular geographic area.
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front or battlefront is a contested armed frontier between opposing forces. This can be a local or tactical front, or it can range to a theater. A typical front was the Western Front which was along the French-German border in World War I.
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated USSR, Russian: (help info ) ; tr.
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Stavka (Ставка) was the General Headquarters of armed forces in late Imperial Russia and in the Soviet Union. In western literature it is sometimes written STAVKA in uppercase, like an acronym.
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Polish-Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was an armed conflict of Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine against the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic, four nascent states in post-World War I Europe.
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Poland:
39 divisions,[1]
16 brigades,[1]
4,300 guns,[1]
880 tanks,
400 aircraft[2]
Total: 950,000[3] Germany:
56 divisions,
4 brigades,
9,000 guns,[2]
2,500 tanks,
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Allied powers:
 Soviet Union
 United States
 United Kingdom
 China
 France
...et al. Axis powers:
 Germany
 Japan
 Italy
...et al.
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The Cold War was the period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s.
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Military districts are organizations of a state's armed forces (often of the Army) which responsible for a certain area of territory. They are often more responsible for administrative than operational matters, and in countries with conscript forces, often handle parts of the
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Groups of Soviet forces were large peacetime administrative units of the Soviet Army, stationed in Warsaw Pact countries. The equivalent entities within the Soviet Union were Soviet military districts.
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Warsaw Treaty Organization,
Warsaw Pact
Договор о дружбе, сотрудничестве и
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1910s  1920s  1930s  - 1940s -  1950s  1960s  1970s
1938 1939 1940 - 1941 - 1942 1943 1944

Year 1941 (MCMXLI
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1910s  1920s  1930s  - 1940s -  1950s  1960s  1970s
1940 1941 1942 - 1943 - 1944 1945 1946

Year 1945 (MCMXLV
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The First Baltic Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. It was formed from the Kalinin Front in 1943 and took part in several important military operations, most notably Bagration in the summer of 1944.
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The Bryansk Front was a Front (i.e. a military formation of roughly Army Group size) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. This sense of the term is not identical with the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet
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The Bryansk Front was a Front (i.e. a military formation of roughly Army Group size) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. This sense of the term is not identical with the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet
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The Bryansk Front was a Front (i.e. a military formation of roughly Army Group size) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. This sense of the term is not identical with the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet
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German Kursk :July 4 – July 20, 1943
Soviet Kursk : July 4 – August 23, 1943
Location Coordinates:
Kursk, USSR

Result Decisive Soviet strategic victory

Combatants

Nazi Germany

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Byelorussian SSR (Belarusian: Беларуская Савецкая
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Anthem
Мы, беларусы   (Belarusian)
My, Belarusy   (transliteration)
We Belarusians
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The 1st Belorussian Front (alternative spellings are 1st Byelorussian Front and 1st Belarusian Front) was a military subdivision (Front) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War.
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The 2nd Belorussian Front (alternative spellings are 2nd Byelorussian Front and 2nd Belarusian Front) was a military subdivision (Front) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War.
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The 3rd Belorussian Front (alternative spellings are 3rd Byelorussian Front and 3rd Belarusian Front) was a Front (military subdivision) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War.
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The Caucasian Front or Caucasus Front was a military subdivision (Front) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. This sense of the term is not identical with the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet
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The Central Front was a Front (i.e. a military formation of roughly Army Group size) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. This sense of the term is not identical with the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet
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The term Army, besides its generalized meaning (see "army") specifically denotes a major military formation in militaries of various countries, including the Soviet Union. During the Civil War, most Soviet armies consisted of independent rifle and cavalry divisions, and corps were
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The Far Eastern Front was a Front — a formation equivalent to a Western Army Group — of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and the Second World War.
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The Far Eastern Front was a Front — a formation equivalent to a Western Army Group — of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and the Second World War.
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