Southwestern Front (RSFSR)

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This article is about the Russian Civil War formation. For the World War II formation, see Southwestern Front (Soviet Union).

The Southwestern Front (

Polish-Soviet War, which existed between January 10, 1920, and December 5, 1920. Before January 1920, it was named the Southern Front
.

Operations

In January–February 1920, the Front forces, pursuing the retreating White forces of Denikin, successfully conducted the Odessa operation and occupied Odessa on February 7. By March 1 the Front reached the line Mozyr-Ovruch-Korosten-Letichev-Dniester River, but attempts to seize the Crimea, defended by the White Army under the command of General Yakov Slashchov, ended unsuccessfully.

Then the Front troops acted on two strategic directions : the Western against Poland, and the Crimean against the Army of

Novohrad-Volynskyi and Rivne
operations, the Front troops defeated the Polish and reached the approaches to Lublin and Lvov, but they could not seize Lvov and in August 1920 they were forced to retreat.

The troops of the Front also fought the armed detachments of

Petlyura and Boris Savinkov
. On October 18, after the conclusion of the Truce with Poland, the Front's operations were stopped and the troops withdrew behind the state border.

On the Crimean front, in June–July, under the pressure of Wrangel's army the Front forces withdrew to the right bank of the Dnieper and conducted defensive battles on the Kherson-Nikopol-

Kakhovka bridgehead
.
In September, the enemy succeeded in pushing back the troops of the left wing of the 13th Army, and in occupying Alexandrovsk, Orekhov and Sinelnikovo, creating a threat to the Donbas Region. In September 1920, the Crimean section of the South-Western Front was separated into an independent Southern Front (2nd formation).

The Front was disbanded on December 5, 1920, and the Front Administration merged with the Administration of the Kiev Military District, to which all the front troops became subordinated.

Composition

  • 12th Army (10.01.1920 - 13.08.1920 and 27.09.1920 - 25.12.1920),
  • 13th Army (10.01.1920 - 21.09.1920),
  • 14th Army (10.01.1920 - 31.12.1920),
  • 1st Cavalry Army (01.04.1920 - 14.08.1920),
  • 2nd Cavalry Army (16.07.1920 - 25.09.1920),
  • 6th Army (08.09.1920 - 26.09.1920),
  • Ukrainian Labor Army (30.01.1920 - 25.09.1920),
  • Gomel
    Fortified Region
    (25.02.1920 - 17.03.1920),
  • Fastov Group (Iona Yakir) (19.05.1920 - 13.06.1920)

Commanders

Commander :

Chief of Staff :

  • Nikolai Petin

Members of the Revolutionary Military Council:

Sources

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