Southeastern Front

The Southeastern Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II. It was formed on Aug. 5, 1942 out of parts of the Stalingrad Front, using the command elements from the First Tank Army and the disbanded Southern Front. The front's main aim was to prevent the German advance towards the Volga River and ward off the threat of a German encirclement of Stalingrad. For this purpose it included 52nd, 57th and 64th Armies. 28th and 62nd Armies and 8th Air Army were later added to the forces of the front.

On Sept. 28 the Southeastern Front was disbanded; most of its forces became the new Stalingrad Front, whilst the former Stalingrad Front was renamed the Don Front.^[1]

Commanders

Colonel-General Andrey Yeryomenko;
Brigadekomissar V.M. Layok (Member of the Military Council - August 1942);
Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) Central Committee Secretary Nikita Khrushchev (Member of the Military Council, August - September 1942);
Major General G.F. Sakharov (Chief of Staff, August–September 1942).

References

↑ David M. Glantz, Armageddon in Stalingrad, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2009, pp 272-73

Fronts of the Red Army in World War II

1938–40	Northwestern Belorussian Ukrainian Far Eastern

June 1941	Northern Northwestern Western Southwestern Southern Far Eastern

Mid-war	Karelian Leningrad Volkhov Kalinin Central Bryansk Moscow Defence Zone Moscow Line of Defence Moscow Reserve Front Maritime Group of Forces Reserve Oryol Kursk Voronezh Don Stalingrad Southeastern Steppe North Caucasian Transcaucasian Caucasian Crimean

Late war	1st Baltic 2nd Baltic 3rd Baltic 1st Belorussian 2nd Belorussian 3rd Belorussian 1st Ukrainian 2nd Ukrainian 3rd Ukrainian 4th Ukrainian Transbaikal 1st Far Eastern 2nd Far Eastern

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