40th Army (Red Army)

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Soviet army field army military unit

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.

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 →

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