Western Front (Red Army)

Commanders

• Dmitry Pavlov 22 Jun 1941 – 30 Jun 1941
• Semyon Timoshenko 2 Jul 1941 – 12 Sept 1941
• Ivan Konev 12 Sept 1941 – 10 Oct 1941
• Georgy Zhukov 10 Oct 1941 – 26 Aug 1942
• Ivan Konev 26 Aug 1942 – 27 Feb 1943
• Vasily Sokolovsky 28 Feb 1943 – 15 Apr 1944

Positions (approximate)

1. 22 June 1941Facing Army Group Centre (Belarus)
2. 9 July 1941Remnants after the Minsk disaster; Smolensk
3. 5 December 1941Defence of Moscow; counter-offensive begins
4. 18 November 1942Rzhev (Operation Mars from 25 Nov)
5. 25 March 1943Smolensk direction
6. 1 January 1944Orsha – Vitebsk; split into 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts in April

Positions are approximate sector centres on front-snapshot dates — not daily positions or headquarters. Between dates the map shows the last known position.

Sources

1. [1]
   Western Front (Soviet Union)

   Wikipedia (EN) · encyclopedia

2. [2]
   Operation Barbarossa

   Wikipedia (EN) · encyclopedia