Southern Front

The Southern Front was a roughly Army group sized formation of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. The Southern Front directed military operations during the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in 1940, and then was formed twice after the June 1941 German invasion, Operation Barbarossa.

Active 1940 to

Commanders

Army General Ivan Tyulenev, 21 June 1941 to 20 August 1941

Ivan Tyulenev

Lieutenant General Dmitry Ryabyshev, 30 August 1941 to 5 October 1941

Dmitry Ryabyshev

Colonel General Yakov Cherevichenko, 5 October 1941 to December 1941

Yakov Cherevichenko

Lieutenant General Rodion Malinovsky, December 1941 to 28 June 1942

Rodion Malinovsky

Colonel-General Andrei Yeremenko, 1 January 1943 to 2 February 1943

Andrei Yeremenko

Lieutenant General Rodion Malinovsky, 2 February 1943 to 22 March 1943

Rodion Malinovsky

Colonel General Fyodor Tolbukhin, 22 March 1943 to 20 October 1943

Fyodor Tolbukhin

Armies

9th Army
Front Assets

Front Assets

7th Rifle Corps - Major General K.L. Dobroserdov

116th Rifle Division - Col. Ya.F. Eremenko
196th Rifle Division - Maj. Gen. K.E. Kulikov
206th Rifle Division - Col. S.I. Gorshkov

9th Rifle Corps - Major General Pavel Batov


106th Rifle Division - Combrig M.S. Tkachev
156th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. P.V. Chernyaev
32nd Cavalry Division - Col. A.I. Batskalevich

3rd Airborne Corps - Major General Vasili Glazunov


5th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Alexander Rodimtsev
6th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Viktor Zholudev
212th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Ivan Zatevakhin
47th Rifle Division

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