Bryansk Front

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The Bryansk Front ( Russian Брянский фронт ) was a military formation of the Red Army during the Second World War .

First formation

The Brjansk Front was first raised on August 16, 1941 from the right wing of the Central Front . Under the command of Andrei Ivanovich Jerjomenko (on paper, so Erickson) the 50th and 13th Armies were combined with a total of eight rifle, three cavalry and one tank divisions. In addition, there were two armies on the Central Front, the 21st and 3rd Army , which had escaped enclosure by the Wehrmacht and suffered heavy losses. Together with the Western Front and the Reserve Front , the Brjansk Front undertook a major counter-offensive in the Smolensk , Yelnya and Yaroslavl areas with the aim of stopping the advance of Army Group Center on Moscow . Despite some successes on the reserve front, the efforts of the Bryansk Front were in vain. On November 10, 1941, the Brjansk Front was disbanded, but immediately afterwards it was set up again from the right wing of the Southwest Front .

Second formation

In November 1941, under Tscherewitschenko, another Bryansk Front was formed.

On March 12, 1943, on the orders of the Soviet High Command from the previous day, the Brjansk Front was renamed Reserve Front . It was briefly referred to as the Kursker (March 23-27 ) and the Oreler Front (March 27-28 ), before it was renamed back to the Brjansk Front on March 28, 1943. On September 17, 1943, Bryansk was liberated by the Soviet 11th Army , after the eponymous city was retaken, the front was disbanded in early October. Most of their units were handed over to the 1st Belarusian Front , while the Front Command was used to set up the Baltic Front , which was renamed the 2nd Baltic Front on October 20, 1943 .

Front command

First formation

Second formation

  • Colonel General Jakow Timofejewitsch Tscherewitschenko (December 24, 1941 - April 2, 1942)
  • Lieutenant General Filipp Ivanovich Golikow (April 3 - July 1942)
  • Lieutenant General Nikandr Jewlampijewitsch Tschibissow (July 1942)
  • Lieutenant General Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Rokossowski (July - September 1942)
  • Lieutenant General Max Andrejewitsch Reiter (September 1942 - March 1943)
  • Corps Commissioner AF Kolobjakow (Member of the Military Council, December 1941 - April 1942)
  • Corps Commissioner IS Sussaikov (member of the Military Council, April - July 1942)
  • Regiment Commissar SI Shabalin (member of the Military Council, July 1942 - September 1942) (since July 1942 Brigade Commissar)
  • Corps Commissioner IS Sussaikow (member of the Military Council, October 1942 - March 1943) (since December 1942 Major General of the Armored Forces, since March 1943 Lieutenant General of the Armored Forces)
  • Major General Vladimir J. Kolpaktschi (Chief of Staff, December 1941 - January 1942)
  • Major General MI Kazakov (Chief of Staff, January - July 1942)
  • Major General MS Malinin (Chief of Staff, July - September 1942)
  • Colonel LM Sandalow (Chief of Staff, September 1942 - March 1943) (since February 1943 Lieutenant General)

Third formation

  • Colonel General MA Reiter (March - June 1943)
  • Colonel General Markian Michailowitsch Popow (June - October 1943)
  • Lieutenant General of IS Sussaikov Armored Forces (member of the Military Council, March - June 1943)
  • Lieutenant General Lev Sakharovich Mechlis (Member of the Military Council, June - October 1943)
  • Lieutenant General LM Sandalow (Chief of Staff, March - October 1943)

swell

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