Commander of the Karelian Front

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Commander of the Karelian Front was a senior Soviet military leadership post responsible for directing Red Army operations in the strategically important Karelian region during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Red Army command position
Soviet military post
military position
appliesToJurisdiction Karelian front
surface form: Karelian Front
appliesToPeriod Eastern Front of World War II
associatedWithEvent Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive
surface form: Soviet offensive in Karelia (1944)

Finnish–Soviet front in World War II
surface form: Soviet–Finnish front stabilization (1941–1943)
commandedUnits Karelian front
surface form: armies of the Karelian Front

corps and divisions deployed in Karelia
commandStructure Soviet front system
conflict Finnish–Soviet front in World War II
surface form: Soviet–Finnish military operations in World War II

operations against German Army Norway (Armee Norwegen)
country Soviet Union
domain land warfare
endTime 1944
governingBody People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR
surface form: People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR
hasRole coordination with Soviet Navy units in the north
coordination with other Soviet fronts
defense of the Soviet–Finnish border
directing combat operations
offensive operations against Finnish and German forces
operational command of front-level forces
planning military operations
hasTask protection of Kirov Railway
protection of Murmansk approaches
support of Arctic convoys through related ground operations
hierarchicalLevel front-level command
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
location East Karelia
surface form: Karelian region

Northern Front (Soviet Union)
surface form: Northern Front of the Eastern Front (World War II)
militaryBranch Red Army
surface form: Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
notableCommander Kirill Meretskov
Valerian Frolov
partOf Red Army
responsibleFor Karelian Front ground forces
coordination with Leningrad Front
coordination with Northern Fleet
operational sector between Ladoga and the Arctic
selectionBy Soviet political and military leadership
startTime 1941
strategicImportance high
subordinateTo Soviet High Command
Stavka
theater Northern theater of operations
typeOfPosition senior command
usedInWar World War II
surface form: Great Patriotic War

World War II

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Kirill Meretskov positionHeld Commander of the Karelian Front