| Ukrainian Front | |
|---|---|
| Український фронт | |
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| Active | January 4–June 15, 1919 |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Allegiance |  Ukrainian SSR |
| Branch | &sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Soviet_Red_Army_Hammer_and_Sickle.svg){kind=small} Red Army |
| Size | c. 120,000 |
| Engagements | Soviet-Ukrainian War |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders | Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko |
The Ukrainian Front, formerly the Army Group of Kursk Direction, was a Red Army group (later front) during the Russian Civil War, which existed between January and June 1919. The army group was created to invade Ukraine after the withdrawal of the Austrian-German occupation force in November 1918 and to fight the Ukrainian People's Republic, as well as the troops of the Entente which had landed on the Black Sea coast.
The army group was primarily based on two insurgent divisions that were created on September 22, 1918, by the order #6 of All-Ukrainian Central Military Revolutionary Committee and were part of the Red Army Reserve Front at the Oryol Military District. The reserve front was originally commissioned under Commandarm Vasily Glagolev and members of revolutionary military council Viyshnevetsky and Zusmanovich.[1]
- ^ Kakurin N.E. Civil War. 1918-1921 / N. Ye. Kakurin, I. I. Vatsetis; Ed. A. S. Bubnova and others - SPb .: OOO "Publishing house" Polygon ", 2002. - 672.