40th Army (Red Army)

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The 40th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that played a significant role in major Eastern Front operations during World War II.

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40th Army (Red Army) canonical 1
40th Army (Soviet Union) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet army
field army
military unit
allegiance Soviet Union
surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
awarded honorific titles and decorations for combat performance
branch Ground Forces
composition armored and mechanized units
artillery units
rifle divisions
conflict World War II
surface form: Great Patriotic War

World War II
country Soviet Union
formedIn 1941
frontAssignment Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front
surface form: 2nd Ukrainian Front

Southwestern Front
Soviet Steppe Front
surface form: Steppe Front

Soviet Voronezh Front
surface form: Voronezh Front
garrisonOrAreaOfOperations Left-bank Ukraine
Moldova
surface form: Moldavia

Right-bank Ukraine
Romania
Voronezh Oblast
surface form: Voronezh region
historicalPeriod Second World War era
notableAction crossing of the Dnieper River in 1943
defense of Voronezh in 1942
liberation of Kiev in 1943
notableCommander Fyodor Kostenko
Konstantin Moskalenko
Kuzma Podlas
Philip Zhmachenko
notableOperation Battle of Kursk
Battle of the Dnieper
Kiev offensive (1943)
Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive
Uman–Botoșani offensive
Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive
Voronezh–Kursk defensive operation
partOf Red Army
Red Army
surface form: Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
primaryOpponents German Army Group B
Heeresgruppe Süd
surface form: German Army Group South

Wehrmacht
role front‑line combat formation
subordinateTo Soviet High Command
surface form: Stavka of the Supreme High Command
task defensive operations in 1941–1942
offensive operations from 1943 onward
theater Eastern Front
typeOfUnit combined arms army

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Soviet Southwestern Front componentUnit 40th Army (Red Army)
Uman–Botoșani offensive involvedFormation 40th Army (Red Army)
this entity surface form: 40th Army (Soviet Union)