Stalingrad Front

Stalingrad Front
ActiveJuly 12, 1942 - January 1, 1943
Country Soviet Union
Branch Red Army
TypeArmy Group Command
SizeSeveral Armies
EngagementsWorld War II
Case Blue
Battle of Stalingrad
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Semyon Timoshenko
Vasiliy Gordov
Andrey Yeryomenko

The Stalingrad Front was a front, a military unit encompassing several armies, of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War. The name indicated the primary geographical region in which the Front first fought, based on the city of Stalingrad on the Volga River.