Soviet Western Front (Red Army formation)

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Red Army front Soviet military formation

The Soviet Western Front was a major Red Army operational formation responsible for conducting large-scale defensive and offensive operations against German forces on the central sector of the Eastern Front during World War II.

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Label	Occurrences
Soviet Western Front (Red Army formation) canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Red Army front ⓘ Soviet military formation ⓘ
abbreviation	ZapF ⓘ
areaOfResponsibility	Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic ⓘ surface form: Belorussian SSR Smolensk Oblast ⓘ surface form: Smolensk region western approaches to Moscow ⓘ
branch	Ground forces ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ surface form: Great Patriotic War World War II ⓘ surface form: Second World War
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
dateDisbanded	April 1944 ⓘ
dateFormed	22 June 1941 ⓘ
engagedIn	Battle of Moscow ⓘ Battle of Smolensk (1941) ⓘ Bobruysk offensive ⓘ Minsk offensive (1944) ⓘ Vitebsk–Orsha offensive ⓘ surface form: Mogilev offensive Operation Bagration ⓘ Operation Mars ⓘ Operation Suvorov (Smolensk offensive, 1943) ⓘ Orsha offensive (1944) ⓘ Orsha offensives ⓘ Rzhev meat grinder ⓘ Rzhev–Vyazma strategic operations ⓘ surface form: Rzhev–Vyazma operations Vitebsk–Orsha offensive ⓘ
formedFrom	Western Special Military District ⓘ
frontSector	central sector of the Eastern Front ⓘ
garrison	Moscow Military District ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Minsk ⓘ Moscow Oblast ⓘ surface form: Moscow region Smolensk ⓘ Vyazma ⓘ
languageOfName	Russian ⓘ
locationFormed	Western USSR ⓘ
nativeName	Western Front ⓘ surface form: Западный фронт
notableCommander	Andrey Yeremenko ⓘ surface form: Andrey Yeryomenko Dmitry Pavlov ⓘ Georgy Zhukov ⓘ Ivan Konev ⓘ Konstantin Rokossovsky ⓘ Vasily Sokolovsky ⓘ
notableEvent	defensive role in Battle of Moscow ⓘ encirclements at Bialystok–Minsk ⓘ encirclements at Smolensk ⓘ participated in liberation of Belarus ⓘ participated in liberation of Smolensk ⓘ suffered heavy losses in summer 1941 ⓘ
opponent	Nazi Germany ⓘ Wehrmacht ⓘ
partOf	Red Army ⓘ
reorganizedAs	3rd Belorussian Front ⓘ
role	conducted large-scale defensive operations ⓘ conducted large-scale offensive operations ⓘ operational-strategic command formation ⓘ
subordinateTo	Stavka of the Red Army ⓘ surface form: Stavka of the Supreme High Command
subordinateUnit	16th Army ⓘ 19th Army ⓘ 20th Army ⓘ 22nd Army ⓘ 29th Army ⓘ 2nd Guards Tank Corps ⓘ 30th Army ⓘ 31st Army ⓘ 33rd Army ⓘ 43rd Army ⓘ 49th Army ⓘ Soviet 50th Army ⓘ surface form: 50th Army 5th Guards Tank Army ⓘ 5th Mechanized Corps ⓘ air armies ⓘ cavalry corps ⓘ
theaterOfOperations	Eastern Front ⓘ

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Soviet-German Front → commandStructure → Soviet Western Front (Red Army formation) ⓘ