The Oryol Front was very briefly 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
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 ...
.
By a
Stavka order of March 24, 1943 it was set up on March 27 by renaming the
Kursk Front, while most of the forces of that Front were reassigned elsewhere. It was intended that the Front would consist of the
61st Army from
Western Front and
3rd Army from
Central Front, plus one additional army. The command staff remained as for Kursk Front, with Col. Gen. Maks Andreevich Reiter in command.
Following yet another Stavka command in the early hours of March 28 Oryol Front was renamed
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. 371-73]
References
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Maks Andreevich Reiter
Soviet fronts
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