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The Southwestern Front describes several distinct organizations during the war. The first version was 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. OPERATIONAL HISTORY The Southwestern Front was on the main axis of attack by the German Army Group South during Operation Barbarossa . At the outbreak of war with Germany, the Front contained the Soviet 5th , 6th, 26th, and 12th Armies along the frontier. These forces took part in the tank battles in western Ukraine and were surrounded and destroyed at Uman and Kiev in August and September 1941. The Front was immediately reestablished with new forces. It was formally disbanded on July 12 , 1942 and the forces transferred to the Stalingrad Front and Southern Front . The Front was reformed from reserve armies on October 22 , 1942 . It was renamed the 3rd Ukrainian Front on October 20 , 1943 . COMMANDERS
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