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22-562: 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 the new 62nd , 63rd and 64th Armies , formed from

44-726: The STAVKA ordered: 1 . Organize two independent fronts in the Stalingrad region... the Don Front, including in it 63rd, 21st, 4th Tank, 1st Guards, 24th, and 66th Armies ... 3 . Appoint Lt. Gen. K. K. Rokossovsky as commander of the forces of the Don Front, freeing him from his duties as commander of the Bryansk Front . 4 . Additionally, bring Corps Commissar A. S. Zheltov into the Don Front's Military Council ... 7 . Appoint Mjr. Gen. K. A. Kovalenko as deputy commander of

66-617: 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

88-552: The Soviet Union . In Western literature it is sometimes written in uppercase ( STAVKA ), although it is not an acronym. Stavka may refer to its members, as well as to the headquarters location (its original meaning from the old Russian word ставка , 'tent'). The commander-in-chief of the Russian army at the beginning of World War I was Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch , a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I . Appointed at

110-539: 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 was ordered to hold a defensive line within

132-545: The Don Front ... 8 . Appoint Mjr. Gen. M. S. Malinin as the chief of staff of the Don Front ... 9 . Appoint Col. Boikov as the chief of the Operations Department of the Don Front ... The initial composition of the Don Front was as follows: The command cadre of the new front came almost entirely from Rokossovsky's Bryansk Front , leaders that he trusted and would follow him until he was ordered to take command of 2nd Belorussian Front in late 1944. On

154-650: The People's Commissar ( Narkom ) of the Navy Admiral Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov . The same decree organized at Stavka "the institution of permanent counsellors of Stavka": Marshal Kulik , Marshal Shaposhnikov , Kirill Meretskov , head of the Air force Zhigarev , Nikolay Vatutin , head of Air Defence Voronov , Mikoyan , Kaganovich , Lavrenty Beria , Voznesensky , Zhdanov , Malenkov , Mekhlis . Very soon afterwards,

176-737: The Supreme Commander-in-Chief ( Ukrainian : Ставка Верховного Головнокомандувача ) is the highest command and control body for the troops and individual branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine , as well as law enforcement services and agencies of Ukraine, which are part of the Armed Forces, formed by decree of the President of Ukraine No. 72/2022 dated February 24, 2022 in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on that day. Don Front The Don Front

198-530: 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

220-466: 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

242-603: The deputy defence minister of the army, Meretskov, was arrested following false charges made by Beria and Merkulov . Meretskov was subsequently released from jail on the same day, at the end of the first week of September 1941, which was called for by Stalin. Stavka's Main Command was reorganized into the Stavka of the Supreme Command ( Stavka Verkhovnogo Komandovaniya ) on 10 July 1941. This action occurred after Stalin

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264-517: 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

286-558: 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:

308-578: The last minute in August 1914, he played no part in formulating the military plans in use at the beginning of the war. Nikolai Yanushkevich was his chief of staff . In the summer of 1915 the Tsar himself took personal command, with Mikhail Alekseyev as his chief of staff. In the years 1915–1917 Stavka was based in Mogilev and the Tsar, Nicholas II, spent long periods there as Commander-in-Chief. The Stavka

330-506: 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,

352-401: 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

374-665: Was a front of the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War , which existed between September 1942 and February 1943, and was commanded during its entire existence by Konstantin Rokossovsky . The name refers to Don River, Russia . The front was created by order of the STAVKA of the Supreme High Command on Sept. 28, 1942 in order to form a more cohesive command structure to the much-reinforced Soviet forces fighting in and around Stalingrad . On that date

396-591: Was divided into several departments: The Stavka was first established in Baranovichi . In August 1915, after the German advance, the Stavka re-located to Mogilev . The Stavka of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II , or the headquarters of the "Main Command of the Armed Forces of the USSR" ( Stavka Glavnogo Komandovaniya ) (Russian: Ставка Главного Командования Вооруженных Сил Союза ССР ),

418-572: Was established on 23 June 1941 by a top-secret decree signed by Joseph Stalin in his capacities both as the head of government and as the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . According to this decree, Stavka was composed of the defence minister Marshal Semyon Timoshenko (as its president), the head of General Staff Georgy Zhukov , Stalin , Vyacheslav Molotov , Marshal Kliment Voroshilov , Marshal Semyon Budyonny and

440-521: Was named Supreme Commander, and replaced Timoshenko as head of Stavka. On 8 August 1941 it was again reorganized into Stavka of the Supreme Main Command ( Stavka Verkhovnogo Glavnokomandovaniya ). On the same day Strategic Directions commands were instituted. A 17 February 1945 decree set out the membership of Stavka as Stalin (President), Zhukov, Aleksandr Vasilevsky , Aleksei Antonov , Nikolai Bulganin and Kuznetsov. The Stavka of

462-639: Was renamed as the new Southern Front . Stavka The Stavka ( Russian and Ukrainian : Ставка, Belarusian : Стаўка) is a name of the high command of the armed forces used formerly in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union and currently in Ukraine . In Imperial Russia Stavka referred to the administrative staff , and to the General Headquarters in the late 19th-century Imperial Russian armed forces and subsequently in

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484-445: 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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