Bryansk Front
| Bryansk Front | |
|---|---|
| Active | August 14 - November 10, 1941 December 24, 1941 - March 12, 1943 March 28 - October 10, 1943 |
| Country |  Battle of Smolensk (1943) |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders | Andrey Yeryomenko Yakov Cherevichenko Filipp Golikov Konstantin Rokossovsky Max Reyter Markian Popov |
The Bryansk Front (Russian: Брянский фронт) was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War.
First Formation (August - November 1941)
General
Soviet Central Front, 21st and 3rd Army, which had avoided encirclement at the Battle of Smolensk (1941)
, were promised but also badly worn down.
In late August along with the
some success by the Reserve Front at El'nia
, the efforts by Bryansk Front were a failure.
After the failure of the Smolensk offensives, the seriously weakened front became trapped in an enormous
Zhukov. On 23 Oct., "thanks to heroic efforts they managed to break out of encirclement." On 10 Nov., the Bryansk Front was "disbanded".[2]
Second Formation (December 1941 - March 1943)
On its second formation in late 1941 under
Operation Blau, the German summer offensive of 1942, the Front comprised the 3rd, 13th, 40th, 48th Armies, the 5th Tank Army, and the 2nd Air Army.[3] It was then reformed, then disbanded on 11–12 March 1943 and its headquarters became HQ Kursk Front after a short time expecting to be the headquarters and the basis of the new Reserve Front
.
Third Formation (March 1943 - October 1943)
It was later reformed from the
Orel Front
on 28 March 1943.By the time of the Battle of Kursk the Front consisted of
Colonel General
Baltic Front, which then became the 2nd Baltic Front
.
Commanders
First Formation
- Lieutenant-General Andrey Yeryomenko (16.08.41 to 13.10.41),
- Major-General Georgiy Fedorovich Zakharov(14.10.41 to 10.11.41).
Second Formation
- Colonel-General Yakov Cherevichenko (24.12.1941 to 02.04.1942),
- Lieutenant-General Filipp Golikov (02.04.1942 to 07.07.1942),
- Lieutenant-General Nikandr Yevlampyevich Chibisov(07.07.42 to 13.07.1942)
- Lieutenant-General Konstantin Rokossovsky (14.07.42 to 27.09.1942),
- Colonel-General Max Andreyevich Reyter(28.09.42 to 12.03.1943).
Third Formation
- Colonel-General Max Andreyevich Reyter(12.03.1943 to 05.06.1943),
- Colonel-General Markian Popov (05.06.43 to 10.10.1943).
References and sources
- ^ *John Erickson, The Road to Stalingrad, London, 1975
- ISBN 9781781592915.
- ^ Axis History Forum, Order of Battle Fall Blau, June 28 1942
- David Glantz, Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War 1941–43, University Press of Kansas, 2005