The '1st Ukrainian Front' was a
front (military subdivision) of the
Soviet Union's Red Army during the
Second World War.
Wartime
On
October 20,
1943 the
Voronezh Front was renamed to the 1st Ukrainian Front. This name change reflected the westward advance of the Red Army in its campaign against the
German Wehrmacht, leaving Russia behind and moving into Ukraine. The front participated or conducted battles in
Ukraine,
Poland,
Germany, and
Czechoslovakia during 1944 and 1945.
During 1944, the front participated with other fronts in the battles of
Korsun-Shevchenkivskyy, and the battle of
Hube's Pocket in Ukraine. It conducted the
Lviv-Sandomierz Offensive, during which the Front was controlling the 1st Guards Tank Army, 3rd Guards Tank Army, 4th Tank Army,
3rd Guards, 5th Guards, 13th, 38th, and 60th
Armies. It then took part in the battle for Ternopil'.
In 1945 the front participated in the
Vistula-Oder offensive, and conducted the
Silesian and
Prague Operations, and the siege of
Breslau. It also participated in the
Berlin operations in Germany and Poland. The front also conducted the major part of the
Halbe Encirclement, in which most of the German 9th Army was destroyed south of Berlin. It provided the defence against the counter-attacks by Armee Wenck which aimed to relieve Berlin and the
9th Army.
The front was victorious in all of its operations over the opposing forces of the
Wehrmacht. The Prague Operation was the final battle of
World War II in
Europe.
Following the war, the Front headquarters formed the Central Group of Forces of the Red Army in Austria and Hungary, guarding the
Iron Curtain.
Commanders
★
General Nikolai F. Vatutin (October 1943-March 1944)
★
Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov (March 1944-May 1944)
★
Marshal Ivan S. Konev (May 1944-May 1945)
References
★ Konev, I.S. ''Aufzeichnungen eines Frontbefehlshabers''
★ Konev, I.S. ''Das Jahr 1945''
★ Ziemke, E.F. ''Stalingrad to Berlin''
★ Tissier, Tony ''Slaughter at Halbe''
★ Duffy, Christopher ''Red Storm on the Reich''
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