The Caucasus Front was a
front of the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...
during the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
.
History
The Caucasus Front was created on 30 December 1941 from
Transcaucasus Front. 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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47th Army (
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)
* the
Black Sea Fleet
The Black Sea Fleet () is the Naval fleet, fleet of the Russian Navy in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Mediterranean Sea. The Black Sea Fleet, along with other Russian ground and air forces on the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula, are subordin ...
* the
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, while the 45th and 46th Armies joined the reestablished
Transcaucasus Military District.
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Soviet fronts
Military units and formations established in 1941
Military units and formations disestablished in 1942
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