The Don Front was a front (military subdivision) of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

's Red Army

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...

 during the Second World War. The name refers to Don River, Russia.

It was restructured from first Stalingrad Front

Stalingrad Front

The Stalingrad Front was a front of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War. The name indicated the primary geographical region in which the Front first fought, based on the city of Stalingrad on the Volga River....

 on 30 September, 1942; the reconstructed Southwestern Front

Soviet Southwestern Front

The Southwestern Front was a name given to a Front by the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War, by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic during the Russian Civil War, and by the Red Army during the Second World War.The Southwestern Front in this article describes several...

 was given the name Stalingrad Front on the same day. The Don Front took part in the Battle of Stalingrad

Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943...

 from its positions between the Volga and the Don rivers. It was restructured into the Central Front on 15 February, 1943.

Composition

• 1st Guards Army.
• 21st Army.
• 24th Army.
• 63rd Army.
• 66th Army.
• 4th Tank Army.
• 16th Air Army.
• 57th Army.
• 62nd Army.
• 64th Army.

Members of the military council

• General Alexei Sergeevich Zheltov (September-October 1942).
• General Alexei Ilarionovich Kirichenko (October-November 1942).
• General Konstantin Telegin
  Konstantin Telegin
  -Early life:Telegin joined the Red Army in 1918 and fought in the Russian Civil War, becoming a member of the Russian Communist Party in 1919. He served as a Regimental Commissar assistant. In 1931 he graduated from the Lenin Military-Political Academy. At first he was a political officer in the...
  
  (December 1942 to disbanding).