40th Army (Red Army)

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The 40th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that played a significant role in major Eastern Front operations during World War II.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet army
field army
military unit
allegiance Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
awarded honorific titles and decorations for combat performance
branch Ground Forces
composition armored and mechanized units
artillery units
rifle divisions
conflict Great Patriotic War
World War II
country Soviet Union
formedIn 1941
frontAssignment 2nd Ukrainian Front
Southwestern Front
Steppe Front
Voronezh Front
garrisonOrAreaOfOperations Left-bank Ukraine
Moldavia
Right-bank Ukraine
Romania
Voronezh region
historicalPeriod Second World War era
notableAction crossing of the Dnieper River in 1943
defense of Voronezh in 1942
liberation of Kiev in 1943
notableCommander Fyodor Kostenko
Konstantin Moskalenko
Kuzma Podlas
Philip Zhmachenko
notableOperation Battle of Kursk
Battle of the Dnieper
Kiev offensive (1943)
Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive
Uman–Botoșani offensive
Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive
Voronezh–Kursk defensive operation
partOf Red Army
Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
primaryOpponents German Army Group B
German Army Group South
Wehrmacht
role front‑line combat formation
subordinateTo Stavka of the Supreme High Command
task defensive operations in 1941–1942
offensive operations from 1943 onward
theater Eastern Front
typeOfUnit combined arms army

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Soviet Southwestern Front
componentUnit

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