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14-570: It was commanded throughout its existence by Dmitr Timofeyevich Kozlov , and was made up of It also had operational control over It was formed on 28 January 1942 by splitting the Caucasian front and included the armies then in the Kerch and Taman peninsulas and the region of Krasnodar , along with operational control over other forces. It was tasked with assisting the troops of Sevastopol Defence Area, striking at Karasubazar and threatening

28-890: A major factor in the Soviet loss of Sevastopol in July 1942, and helped make possible the German summer offensive into the Caucasus . On 19 May 1942, the Crimean Front was disbanded, and its troops given to the command of the North Caucasian Front . Dmitr Timofeyevich Kozlov Dmitry Timofeyevich Kozlov ( Russian : Дми́трий Тимофе́евич Козло́в ; October 23 (November 4) 1896, Razgulyayka, now in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast – December 6, 1967, Minsk )

42-488: A number of times during the war. The army headquarters, formed from Headquarters Siberian Military District ; under General Staff instructions of 25 June 1941 arrived on 28 June 1941 at Vyazma , accepting on arrival in this area six Siberian rifle divisions of the high command reserve (RVGK). Involved in the Yelnya Offensive , August–September 1941. Headquarters disbanded 10 October 1941, having been destroyed in

56-683: The Kerch Peninsula landings but, despite initial successes, the operation ended in disaster, with the Soviets losing over 176,000 men, 37 tanks, around 3,500 guns and mortars and 400 aircraft and losing the bridgehead to the Germans in Operation Trappenjagd . On 4 June 1942, he was demoted to major general and removed from command of the front. In August of that year he was transferred to command 24th Army and from October 1942

70-905: The Russo-Finnish War . In January 1941 he was appointed commander of the troops of Transcaucasian Military District and when the Germans invaded in August of that year he was put in command of the Transcaucasian Front , where he led the Soviet contingent in the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran . He moved to command the Caucasian Front in December 1941 and the Crimean Front in January 1942. He commanded

84-669: The Transcaucasian Front . The army was disbanded on 23 August and the headquarters personnel were used to form the 58th Army (II) on August 28, 1942; Composition on 1 June 1942: On 1 August only the Sapper Battalions remained assigned to the Army. Soon afterwards reformed again as part of the Stalingrad front from 9th Reserve Army on 1 September 1942. The army participated in the Battle of Stalingrad as part of both

98-569: The Vyazma Pocket . Composition on 1 September 1941: Composition on 1 October 1941: Reformed from 9 December 1941 to 4 January 1942 when it was redesignated as 1st Reserve Army (II). The army was assigned the 385th Rifle Division for less than a month. The army remained in the Moscow Defense Zone through April 1942 with no assigned forces. Reformed again on 20 May 1942, from an Operational Group under

112-910: The 109th Regiment in September 1924. He moved to the staff in 1928, then to head the Kiev Infantry School in 1930. He then became the commander and commissar of 44th Rifle Division in January 1931. Next, he became a general tactical lecturer at the RKKA Military Academy in December 1935, deputy commander of the troops in Odessa Military District in April 1940, and head of the Main Directorate of Red Army Air Defence in December 1940. 1940 also saw him promoted to lieutenant general . He also fought in

126-524: The Soviet troops of the Crimean Front to be evacuated to the Taman Peninsula. Some troops were unable to evacuate and fought the Germans at Adzhimushkay until the end of October of the same year, with no significant stocks of food, water, medicine, arms, or ammunition. The Red Army lost over 300,000 men in the Kerch landings, and a large amount of its heavy weaponry. The landings' failure was also

140-548: The command of Major General Aleksei Grechkin while assigned to the Southern Front . The army was concentrated in the area of Salsk , Rostov Oblast. The army was then transferred to the North Caucasus Front on 28 July. In early August the units assigned were transferred to the 12th and 37th Armies , and its headquarters relocated to Grozny , Chechen Republic, Soviet Union, where it was assigned to

154-589: The rear of the Axis forces blockading Sevastopol . Its troops went on the offensive three times from February 27 to April 13, 1942, but made no significant progress, and after minor gains they were forced onto the defensive. On 21 April 1942, the troops in the North Caucasus were added to it. On 8 May 1942, the Germans launched an offensive on the Kerch Peninsula and recaptured it on 16 May, forcing

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168-677: Was a Soviet military commander. Born in the village of Razgulyayka, he left school in 1915 and joined the Russian Army at the rank of Praporshchik . He served in the First World War and graduated from officer training school in 1917. He moved to the Red Army in 1918, commanding a battalion and then a regiment in the Russian Civil War . In December 1922 he became the commander of the 4th Turkestan Regiment, then of

182-567: Was assistant deputy commander of the Voronezh Front . Kozlov headed Kharkiv 's defence and was one of the last Russians to leave it before the Germans recaptured it on 14 March 1943. From 14 to 21 March 1943 Soviet divisions were constantly withdrawing through the woods northeast of Mokhnachev, and Kozlov took the same route away from Kharkiv. From May to August 1943 he was given a post on the Leningrad Front and from August 1943

196-722: Was made deputy commander of the Transbaikal Front , where he took part in the Soviet offensives against Japan . From 1946 until his retirement in 1954, he was made deputy commander of Transbaikal. He died in 1967 in Minsk. 24th Army (Soviet Union) The 24th Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army , formed in 1941 and active during the Second World War . The army was disbanded and reformed

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