Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)

Southwestern Front
Active22 June 1941 – 12 July 1942
22 October 1942 – 20 October 1943
Country Soviet Union
Branch Red Army
TypeArmy Group Command
SizeSeveral Armies
Engagements
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Semyon Timoshenko
Rodion Malinovsky

The Southwestern Front was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War, formed thrice.

It was first created on June 22, 1941 from the Kiev Special Military District. The western boundary of the front in June 1941 was 865 km long, from the Pripyat River and the town of Wlodawa to the Prut River and the town of Lipkany at the border with Romania. It connected to the north with the Western Front, which extended to the Lithuanian border, and to the south with the Southern Front, which extended to the city of Odessa on the Black Sea.