The Kursk Front was a
front
Front may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''The Front'' (1943 film), a 1943 Soviet drama film
* ''The Front'', 1976 film
Music
* The Front (band), an American rock band signed to Columbia Records and active in the 1980s and e ...
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
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 ...
.
It was set up on March 23, 1943, following a
Stavka directive of March 19 by re-purposing the command cadre of
Reserve Front
The Reserve Front was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War.
First Formation
The Reserve Front describes either of two distinct organizations during the war. The first version was created on July 30, 1941 in a reorganiza ...
to defend the westernmost sector of the
Kursk
Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...
Salient. It consisted of
38th Army,
60th Army
The Red Army's 60th Army was a Soviet field army during the Second World War. It was first formed in reserve in the Moscow Military District in October 1941, but soon was disbanded. It was formed a second time in July 1942, and continued in servi ...
, and
15th Air Army
The 15th Air Army was a military formation of the Soviet Air Forces, active from July 1942 until December 1993.
History
It was formed between 11 July and 15 August 1942, in accordance with the directive of the commander of the Soviet Air Force ...
, with another field army to be assigned, probably either the
63rd or
66th. Col. Gen.
M.A. Reiter was appointed to command, with Maj. Gen. I.Z. Susaikov as member of the military council and Lt. Gen.
L.M. Sandalov as chief of staff.
The new Front was very short lived. Another ''Stavka'' directive on March 24 transformed Kursk Front into the new
Oryol Front, to be established by March 27. At the same time, 60th Army was transferred to
Central Front
The Central Front was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War formed on July 24, 1941.
The Central Front describes either of two distinct organizations during the war.
The first entity existed for just a month during th ...
, and 38th to
Voronezh Front
The 1st Ukrainian Front (Russian: Пéрвый Украи́нский фронт), previously the Voronezh Front (Russian: Воронежский Фронт) was a major formation of the Soviet Army during World War II, being equivalent to a ...
. Finally, on March 28, Oryol Front was ordered to be renamed as the new
Bryansk Front
The Bryansk Front (russian: Брянский фронт) was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War.
First Formation (August - November 1941)
General Andrei Yeremenko was designated commander of the Front when it first f ...
.
[David M. Glantz, ''After Stalingrad'', Helion & Co., Ltd., Solihull, UK, 2009, pp 370-73]
References
External links
Maks Andreevich Reiter
{{Fronts of the Red Army in World War II
Soviet fronts
de:Brjansker Front#Zweite Formation