Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)

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Southwestern Front
Active	22 June 1941 – 12 July 1942 22 October 1942 – 20 October 1943
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Army Group Command
Size	Several Armies
Engagements	World War II Operation Barbarossa Battle of Moscow Second Battle of Kharkov Operation Little Saturn Third Battle of Kharkov Donbass Strategic Offensive
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.