1st Ukrainian Front

1st Ukrainian Front
Alexander Pokryshkin (center) carrying the standard of the 1st Ukrainian Front at the 1945 Moscow Victory Parade.
Active1943–45
Country Soviet Union
Branch Red Army
TypeArmy group
RoleCo-ordination and conduct of Red Army Operations in Ukraine, Poland, and Germany
SizeSeveral Armies
EngagementsKorsun-Shevchenkivskyy
Hube's Pocket
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive
Vistula–Oder Offensive
Silesian offensives
Siege of Breslau
Berlin
Halbe Encirclement
Prague
Commanders
Notable
commanders
General Nikolai F. Vatutin (October 1943 – March 1944)
Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov (March – May 1944)
Marshal Ivan S. Konev (May 1944 – May 1945)
1st Ukrainian Front Standard for Victory Parade - at the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow

The 1st Ukrainian Front (Russian: Пéрвый Украи́нский фронт), previously the Voronezh Front (Воронежский Фронт), was a major formation of the Red Army during World War II, being equivalent to a Western army group.


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