Soviet Southwestern Front

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Red Army operational formation Soviet Front World War II military unit

The Soviet Southwestern Front was a major Red Army operational formation on the Eastern Front of World War II that played a key role in large-scale defensive and offensive operations against Nazi Germany.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Red Army operational formation → Soviet Front → World War II military unit →
chiefOfStaff	Vasiliy Tupikov →
commander	Mikhail Kirponos → Nikolai Vatutin → Rodion Malinovsky → Semyon Timoshenko →
componentUnit	12th Army (Red Army) → 21st Army (Red Army) → 26th Army (Red Army) → 37th Army (Red Army) → 38th Army (Red Army) → 40th Army (Red Army) → 57th Army (Red Army) → 5th Army (Red Army) → 6th Army (Red Army) → 9th Army (Red Army) → Southwestern Front Air Forces →
conflict	Eastern Front of World War II → World War II →
country	Soviet Union →
dateFormed	1941-06-22 →
disbanded	1943 →
formedFrom	Kiev Special Military District →
historicalSignificance	contributed to later Soviet counteroffensives in the southwestern sector → played a key role in early defensive battles of the Soviet–German War → suffered major encirclements and losses in 1941 →
locationFormed	Kiev → Ukrainian SSR →
militaryBranch	Red Army →
notableEngagement	Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive → Battle of Kiev (1941) → Battle of Uman → Donbass defensive operations (1941) → Kharkov defensive operations (1941) → Second Battle of Kharkov → Stalingrad strategic defensive operations (flank sector) → Voronezh–Voroshilovgrad defensive operations →
opponent	Nazi Germany → Wehrmacht →
partOf	Red Army →
primaryAreaOfOperations	Right-bank Ukraine → Southwestern sector of the Soviet–German front → Ukraine →
reasonForDisbandment	reorganization into Ukrainian Fronts →
role	front-level operational command →
strategicFunction	conduct large-scale defensive operations → conduct large-scale offensive operations →
subordinateTo	Soviet High Command → Stavka →
successor	1st Ukrainian Front → Steppe Front → Voronezh Front →
theaterOfOperations	Eastern Front →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive → Voronezh–Voroshilovgrad defensive operations →	combatant
Army Group Don → Battle of the Don Bend →	opponent
Donbass defensive operations (1941) →	belligerent
Soviet-German Front ("Soviet Southwestern Front (Red Army formation)") →	commandStructure
Battle of Uman ("Soviet Southwestern Front forces") →	encirclementOf
Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive ("Southwestern Front (Red Army)") →	front
Battle of Stalingrad →	involvedMilitaryUnit
Operation Little Saturn →	involvedUnit
12th Army (Red Army) ("Southwestern Front (Red Army)") →	subordinateTo