The Caucasus Front was a
front of the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian language, Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist R ...
during the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...
.
History
The Caucasus Front was created on 30 December 1941 from
Transcaucasus Front
Transcaucasian Front or Transcaucasus Front (russian: Закавказский Фронт) was a front of the Soviet Red Army—a military formation comparable to an army group, not a geographic military front—during the Second World War.
Th ...
. The commander of the latter, Lieutenant General
Dmitry Kozlov, continued in command of the front. Its chief of staff was Major General
Fyodor Tolbukhin.
It comprised the
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44th Army (Aleksei Pervushin and
Ivan Dashichev)
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45th Army (
Vasily Novikov
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46th Army (
Alexander Khadeyev
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Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
)
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47th Army The 47th Army (russian: 47-я армия) of the Soviet Union's Red Army was an army-level command active from 1941 to 1946.
History
The 47th Army was formed in late July 1941 in the Transcaucasian Military District as part of the Soviet Union's ...
(
Konstantin Baranov)
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51st Army (
Vladimir Lvov)
Were operationally subordinated to the front :
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Sevastopol Defensive Region (under siege)
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Black Sea Fleet
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Azov Flotilla
The troops of the front completed the
Kerch–Feodosiya Landing Operation, began on 25 December by the Transcaucasus Front and Black Sea Fleet, gaining a bridgehead in Crimea and pushing back the defending German forces.
On 28 January 1942, the front was split, with the 44th, 47th, and 51st Armies becoming part of the new
Crimean Front
The Crimean Front ( uk, Кри́мський фронт, Krýms’kyj front) was one of the Red Army fronts of World War II, which existed from January-May 1942.
Composition
It was commanded throughout its existence by Dmitr Timofeyevich K ...
, while the 45th and 46th Armies joined the reestablished
Transcaucasus Military District
The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the Soviet Union. It was disbanded by being redesignated as a Grou ...
.
References
Citations
Bibliography
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Soviet fronts
Military units and formations established in 1941
Military units and formations disestablished in 1942
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