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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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Red Army front → Soviet military formation →
abbreviation	ZapF →
areaOfResponsibility	Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic → surface form: "Belorussian SSR" Smolensk region NERFINISHED → 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 Yeryomenko NERFINISHED → Dmitry Pavlov NERFINISHED → Georgy Zhukov → Ivan Konev → Konstantin Rokossovsky → Vasily Sokolovsky NERFINISHED →
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) →