Southeastern Front

 

• 52nd Army (Vsevolod Yakovlev),
• 57th Army (Fyodor Tolbukhin),
• 64th Army(Vasily Chuikov) .

Were later added to the forces of the front :

• Vasyl Herasymenko
  ),
• 62nd Army (Anton Lopatin),
• 8th Air Army (Timofey Khryukin).

On September 28 the Southeastern Front was disbanded; most of its forces became the new Stalingrad Front, whilst the former Stalingrad Front was renamed the Don Front.^[1]

Commanders

• Colonel-General Andrey Yeryomenko;

• Brigadekomissar V. M. Layok (Member of the Military Council - August 1942);
• Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) Central Committee Secretary Nikita Khrushchev (Member of the Military Council, August–September 1942);
• Major General G. F. Sakharov (Chief of Staff, August–September 1942).

References