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17-662: It was formed on August 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 : Were later added to the forces of the front : On September 28

34-670: The STAVKA released an additional nine fresh rifle divisions to the front from the Reserve of the Supreme High Command . Two days later, Lt. Gen. V.I. Chuikov was reassigned from the command of 64th Army to Gordov's deputy commander of the front; Lt. Gen. M.S. Shumilov took over command of the 64th. On August 1, the order of battle of the Stalingrad Front was as follows: By August 4, the STAVKA recognized that

51-812: The Soviet deep battle doctrine. Beginning in 1943, the formations and units in the Reserve ranged from battalions to whole armies (e.g. the Reserve Armies ), with an emphasis on artillery and mechanised formations, and were capable of large-scale, independent operations. For example, as of April 1943, an artillery penetration corps contained as many as 1,500 gun tubes and rocket launchers each. Tank armies, which also emerged in 1943, included one or two tank corps and one mechanised corps, plus supporting units. These mechanised formations were capable of conducting operational exploitations of up to 500 kilometers. Most of

68-728: The Southeastern Front was disbanded; most of its forces became the new Stalingrad Front , whilst the former Stalingrad Front was renamed the Don Front . Stalingrad Front The Stalingrad Front was a front , a military unit encompassing several armies, of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War . The name indicated the primary geographical region in which the Front first fought, based on

85-1082: The Soviet Red Army during World War II , and the RVGK now operates as part of the Russian Armed Forces under the control of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces ( Russian : Верховный главнокомандующий ) — the President of the Russian Federation . Forces from the Reserve were assigned by the Stavka (Supreme High Command) to individual fronts (army groups) that were conducting major operations. These formations were designed to support any forms of operations but especially penetrations and exploitations in accordance with

102-531: The above-mentioned had been joined by the 51st , 57th , 21st , 28th and 38th Armies , of which the last four were in particularly poor condition. The remnants of 28th Army were being rebuilt as the 4th Tank Army , while 38th was similarly rebuilding as 1st Tank Army . The front also commanded 8th Air Army and the Volga River Flotilla. On July 23, Sixth Army began a pincer operation with its XIV and XXIV Panzer Corps against 62nd Army. By

119-468: The city itself, and also held a supervisory role over Gordov. On September 3, the dispositions and strengths of the armies of Stalingrad Front were as follows: Armor strength: 350 - 400 tanks. By September 28, Stalingrad and Southeastern Fronts had been reinforced to the extent that another reorganization was ordered. Don Front was created, with the 63rd, 21st, 4th Tank, 1st Guards, 24th and 66th Armies, under command of Lt. Gen. K.K. Rokossovsky , who

136-506: The city of Stalingrad on the Volga River . By order of the Stavka on July 12, 1942, Stalingrad Front was formed, under the command of Marshal S.K. Timoshenko , with N.S. Khrushchev as member of the Military Council and Gen. P.I. Bodin as chief of staff. Ostensibly this was simply a renaming of the now-dissolved Southwestern Front , but in fact was a largely new formation, as the only effective units under its command were

153-517: The end of the next day two rifle divisions of the army had been pushed aside to the north, the army's right flank had been deeply penetrated and partly encircled in the Maiorovsky region before the advance had to be slowed due to supply difficulties and Soviet resistance. Stalin ordered the half-formed tank armies into the attack against the northern pincer, which began on the 25th. While these attacks were too disjointed to achieve decisive results, by

170-616: The implementation of state power at the disposal of the supreme leader of the country. The airborne troops have always been the reserve of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. The most important, but not the only factor that makes the Airborne being a reserve force of the Supreme Commander, is their mobility - to ensure the defense of the territory of such a large scale country as Russia, is only possible with

187-520: The military units of the Airborne Forces, which are part of the Reserve of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, are also guards. With reference to the Russian airborne troops, as the reserve of the Supreme Commander, officially used two largely equivalent term: reserves and fund - the latter reflects an instrumental status of forces among a set of other measures of military and non-military nature for

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204-551: The new 62nd , 63rd and 64th Armies , formed from the 7th, 5th and 1st Reserve Armies, respectively. The armies of the former front had been badly battered and partly encircled in the German Operation Wilhelm (June 10–15), Operation Fridericus II (June 22–25), and the opening stages of Operation Blue (began June 28) and the remnants were in retreat towards the east bank of the Don River . The new front

221-454: The next day German progress was halted, with Soviet tanks breaking into the rear of XIV Corps, and a 35 km gap remaining between the pincers. The rebuilding 21st Army joined the counterstroke that day as well. During the remainder of the month these actions continued to stymie the German advance and wear down their strength, and also relieve the partially-encircled Soviet force, although at considerable cost in men and vehicles. On July 28,

238-401: The size of this front could not be controlled effectively from one headquarters, and so created the new Southeastern Front , to take command of the southern sectors of the front. After some considerable discussion, Col. Gen. A.I. Yeryomenko was given command of Southeastern Front, leaving Gordov in command of the truncated Stalingrad Front. Yeryomenko was given responsibility for the defense of

255-602: Was ordered to hold a defensive line within the great bend of the Don, roughly between Kletskaya and the confluence of the Chir and the Don, preparing for the oncoming German Sixth Army . On July 22, Stalin concluded that Timoshenko was no longer capable of effective command, and called Lt. Gen. V.N. Gordov to Moscow, appointing him to command of the front effective July 23. Khrushchev and Bodin remained in their respective posts. At this time Stalingrad Front had eight armies under command:

272-637: Was renamed as the new Southern Front . Reserve of the Supreme High Command The Reserve of the Supreme High Command (Russian: Резерв Верховного Главнокомандования; also known as the Stavka Reserve or RVGK ( Russian : РВГК ) or RGK ( Russian : РГК — Резерв Главного Командования) comprises reserve military formations and units; the Stavka Reserve acted as the principal military reserve of

289-446: Was transferred from command of Bryansk Front ; Gordov was removed to the STAVKA reserves. Southeastern Front was disbanded, and Yeryomenko was put in command of the reorganized Stalingrad Front, with under his command This command structure would remain for the duration of the battle. As of November 19, Stalingrad Front commanded five field armies, plus the 8th Air Army ( Timofey Khryukin ). On January 1, 1943, Stalingrad Front

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