page_title: North Caucasian Front
section_title: Second Creation
hierarchical_section_title: North Caucasian Front / Second Creation
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Battle of the Caucasus campaign, on the World War II Eastern Front. North Caucasus, December 1942—February 1943. Русский: Наступление КА зимой 1942-43
context_page_description: The North Caucasian Front or North Caucasus Front was a major formation of the Red Army during the Second World War.
  The North Caucasus Front describes either of two distinct organizations during the war.
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  The second formation of this Front was created on January 24, 1943 from the Northern Group of Forces in the Transcaucasian Front (located in the eastern Caucasus), and reintegrated the Black Sea Group of Forces on February 5, 1943. Lieutenant General Ivan Maslennikov, who was promoted to Colonel General in January 1943, initially took command. He handed over to Lieutenant General Ivan E. Petrov (Russian: Иван Ефремович Петров), in May 1943, and Petrov was then promoted to Colonel General in August.
  During the long series of engagements known as the Battle of the Caucasus, the North Caucasian Front included the 
  Black Sea Group of Forces consisting of the
  46th Army (Konstantin Leselidze),
  18th Army (Alexander Ryzhov),
  47th Army (Fyodor Kamkov),
  56th Army (Andrei Grechko),
  5th Air Army (Sergei Goryunov),
  13th Separate Rifle Corps
  16th Separate Rifle Corps.
  The Northern Group of Forces commanded the
  37th Army (Pyotr Kozlov,
  9th Army (Konstantin Koroteev),
  58th Army (Kondrat Melnik),
  44th Army (Vasily Khomenko),
  4th Air Army (Nikolai Naumenko),
  10th Separate Rifle Corps.
  Additionally it commanded the Black Sea Fleet and the Baku Army of PVO.
  The fighting remained reasonably static from February until September 1943 when the Germans ordered fresh withdrawals from the Kuban bridgehead, which effectively ended the period of fighting in the Caucasus.
  The Front was reorganized into the Separate Coastal Army on November 20, 1943 during the Kerch-Eltigen Operation, the Soviet amphibious crossing of the Sea of Azov.
caption: The front from December 1942 to February 1943
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