Kursk Front

The Kursk Front was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War. It was set up on March 23, 1943 following a Stavka directive of Mar. 19 by re-purposing the command cadre of Reserve Front to defend the westernmost sector of the Kursk Salient. It consisted of 38th Army, 60th Army, and 15th Air Army, with another field army to be assigned, probably either the 63rd or 66th. Col. Gen. M.A. Reiter was appointed to command, with Mjr. Gen. I.Z. Susaikov as member of the military council and Lt. Gen. L.M. Sandalov as chief of staff. The new Front was very short lived. Another Stavka directive on Mar. 24 transformed Kursk Front into the new Orel Front, to be set up by Mar. 27. At the same time, 60th Army was transferred to Central Front, and 38th to Voronezh Front. Finally, on Mar. 28, Orel Front was ordered to be renamed as the new Bryansk Front.^[1]

References

↑ David M. Glantz, After Stalingrad, Helion & Co., Ltd., Solihull, UK, 2009, pp 370-73

External links

Maks Andreevich Reiter

Fronts of the Red Army in World War II

1938–40	Northwestern Belorussian Ukrainian Far Eastern

June 1941	Northern Northwestern Western Southwestern Southern Far Eastern

Mid-war	Karelian Leningrad Volkhov Kalinin Central Bryansk Moscow Defence Zone Moscow Line of Defence Moscow Reserve Front Maritime Group of Forces Reserve Oryol Kursk Voronezh Don Stalingrad Southeastern Steppe North Caucasian Transcaucasian Caucasian Crimean

Late war	1st Baltic 2nd Baltic 3rd Baltic 1st Belorussian 2nd Belorussian 3rd Belorussian 1st Ukrainian 2nd Ukrainian 3rd Ukrainian 4th Ukrainian Transbaikal 1st Far Eastern 2nd Far Eastern

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