Historical images and commander records

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Alexander Lizyukov

Mil.ru

до 23 июля 1942 года.

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Alexander Sokolsky

Mil.ru / Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation; photographer identified elsewhere as Pyotr Bernstein

Summer 1945 (Commons file description)

Alexander Sokolsky is seated at left in the balloon basket; Konstantin Rokossovsky stands beside him. Photograph is from 1945, after this scenario.

Andrei Grechko

Mil.ru

1960

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Anton Lopatin

Mil.ru

Unknown date

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Corneliu Dragalina

Unknown photographer

2014-04-01 18:07:04

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Dmitry Kozlov

Mil.ru / Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Undated; Commons date unverified

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Dmitry Ryabyshev

Mil.ru

Unknown date

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Eberhard von Mackensen

Mendl

January 1944

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Ernst-Eberhard Hell

Unknown photographer

circa 1943

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Fyodor Kharitonov

Unknown photographer

1942

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Fyodor Tolbukhin

Mil.ru

1945

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Gabriele Nasci

Unknown photographer

before 12 april 1947

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Georg Stumme

Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1980-009-34 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

1940

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Giovanni Messe

Official photograph of Kingdom of Italy with no credited author

1941

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Grigory Kotov

Mil.ru

before 1940

CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image and caption

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Gustav Fehn

Unknown German photographer

1942-03-04

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Gustav von Wietersheim

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

1938-02

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György Rakovszky

Unknown photographer

before 1945

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Hans von Obstfelder

Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-263-1595-32 / Baumann / CC-BY-SA 3.0

9 February 1944

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Hans-Valentin Hube

Unknown photographer

1942

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Ilya Smirnov

Mil.ru

1948

CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image and caption

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Ioan Mihail Racoviță

Unknown photographer

Unknown date

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Ivan Chernyakhovsky

Unknown author.

февраль-июнь 1943 года

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Ivan Chistyakov

Unknown photographer

1943

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Ivan Galanin

Mil.ru

circa 1942

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Ivan Petrov (army general)

Mil.ru

between 1945 and 1948

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Karl Strecker

Unknown photographer

1943-02

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Karl-Adolf Hollidt

Unknown photographer or not provided

circa 1948

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Kirill Moskalenko

Mil.ru

Unknown date

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Konstantin Koroteyev

Mil.ru

1943

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Konstantin Leselidze

Mil.ru

Unknown date

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Lajos Csatay

MFI/Magyar Film Iroda

1944

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Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg

Unknown photographer

1935

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Markian Popov

Mil.ru

Unknown date

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Maxim Antonyuk

Mil.ru / Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Unknown date

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Maximilian de Angelis

Kintscher

May 1943

Group photograph: de Angelis is the officer at far right; Kleist stands second from right.

Mikhail Shumilov

Mil.ru

Unknown date

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Nikolai Kirichenko

Unknown photographer; Krasnaya Bashkiriya newspaper, 20 October 1942; via Wikimedia Commons

1942

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Nikolai Krylov

Mil.ru / Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation; photographer: Алексеев Ю.А

1960s

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Nikolai Pukhov

Mil.ru

1950s

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Nikolai Trufanov

Unknown photographer

1942

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Otto von Knobelsdorff

Unknown photographer

1944-01-01

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Archival photograph of a column of German infantry and a horse-drawn wagon silhouetted along a horizon, August 1942.

German infantry on the march, southern Soviet Union, August 1942.

Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-217-0492-09 / Dieck / CC-BY-SA 3.0

August 1942

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Archival photograph of Italian soldiers leading loaded mules through a village on the Eastern Front, July 1942.

Italian troops with mules, Eastern Front, July 1942.

Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-B27180 / Lachmann / CC-BY-SA 3.0

July 1942

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Archival photograph of Soviet T-34 tanks and their crews inside a factory; the archive dates the photograph to 1942.

T-34 production, Soviet Union, 1942 (archive date).

RIA Novosti archive, image #1274 / V. Kaushanov / CC-BY-SA 3.0

1942 (archive date)

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The archive metadata gives 1 February 1942, which has not been independently corroborated. The current Commons description also names the Ural Volunteer Tank Corps, while the embedded archive description says tanks from the Uralmash workshops. Use the neutral T-34 production caption; do not assert an exact month, named formation, battle or selected counter.

Archival photograph of Soviet infantry with submachine guns moving among brick ruins in Stalingrad, September 1942.

Soviet infantry among ruined buildings in Stalingrad, September 1942.

RIA Novosti archive, image #602770 / Zelma / CC-BY-SA 3.0

September 1942

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Rodion Malinovsky

Mil.ru

1958-11-22

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Rudolf Freiherr von Roman

Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-088-3724-06A / Thiemann; cropped by Vasyatka1 / CC BY-SA 3.0 de

2011-03-15 06:53

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Rudolf Konrad

Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, 3/2/0/-/1393 / Knodler

1942-08-03

Official archive identifies Konrad as third from left and Ruoff as second from right in the first rank. Konrad is the large centre-foreground officer; small officers farther back are not counted in that leading row. Keep this identifying caption with the group photo.

Rudolf Veiel

Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1984-018-08A / CC-BY-SA 3.0

1940

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Vasily Chuikov

Mil.ru

Late 1950s–early 1960s

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Vasily Ivanovich Kuznetsov

Mil.ru / Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

1942

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Viktor von Schwedler

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

1938-02

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Vladimir Kolpakchi

Mil.ru

during or after 1945

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Walter Heitz

Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-2005-0428-501 / Dorneth / CC-BY-SA 3.0

October 1936

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Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach

Unknown photographer

03.02.1942

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Werner Kempf

Mahla

1943-06

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Willibald von Langermann und Erlencamp

Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1981-101-24 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

1942

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Korps/LVKorps-R.htm

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Command records

LV Corps · Corps commander

Rudolf Freiherr von Roman · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

XIII Corps · Corps commander

Erich Straube · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Korps/XIIIKorps-R.htm

XXIV Panzer Corps · Corps commander

Willibald von Langermann und Erlencamp · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-03 (end date exclusive)

Otto von Knobelsdorff · 1942-10-03 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/KorpsPz/XXIVPzKorps-R.htm

XLVIII Panzer Corps · Corps commander

Werner Kempf · 1942-06-28 to 1942-09-28 (end date exclusive)

Rudolf Veiel · 1942-09-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXXVIII_Panzer_Corps

Hungarian III Corps · Corps commander

György Rakovszky · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.niehorster.org/015_hungary/oob/corps_03.html

VII Corps · Corps commander

Ernst-Eberhard Hell · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Korps/VIIKorps-R.htm

XXIX Corps · Corps commander

Hans von Obstfelder · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Korps/XXIXKorps-R.htm

VIII Corps · Corps commander

Walter Heitz · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Korps/VIIIKorps-R.htm

XVII Corps · Corps commander

Karl-Adolf Hollidt · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Korps/XVIIKorps-R.htm

XL Panzer Corps · Corps commander

Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg · 1942-06-28 to 1942-09-30 (end date exclusive)

NARA T314 roll 962, KTB 4, item 27759/1, frames 70–72 records Geyr assuming command on 28 June 1942; this supersedes conflicting secondary July dates.

Gustav Fehn · 1942-09-30 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

NARA T314 roll 962, KTB 4, item 27759/1, frames 70–72 records Geyr assuming command on 28 June 1942; this supersedes conflicting secondary July dates.

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/317534723

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Geyr_von_Schweppenburg

LI Corps · Corps commander

Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/S/SeydlitzWv-R.htm

III Panzer Corps · Corps commander

Eberhard von Mackensen · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

NARA T314 roll 194, item 32375/1, frames 351, 356–358 establishes Mackensen before and during the opening; XL corps diary records Geyr taking that separate command on 28 June.

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/316595802

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/KorpsPz/IIIPzKorps-R.htm

XI Corps · Corps commander

Karl Strecker · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Korps/XIKorps-R.htm

XLIV Corps · Corps commander

Maximilian de Angelis · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Korps/XXXXIVKorps-R.htm

Romanian VI Corps · Corps commander

Corneliu Dragalina · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.ligamilitarilor.ro/fara-categorie/general-de-corp-de-armata-corneliu-dragalina/

IV Corps · Corps commander

Viktor von Schwedler · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Korps/IVKorps-R.htm

XLIX Mountain Corps · Corps commander

Rudolf Konrad · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/KorpsGeb/XXXXIXGebKorps-R.htm

LII Corps · Corps commander

Eugen Ott · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Korps/LIIKorps-R.htm

Italian CSIR · Corps commander

Giovanni Messe · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Army_in_Russia

XIV Panzer Corps · Corps commander

Gustav von Wietersheim · 1942-06-28 to 1942-09-14 (end date exclusive)

Hans-Valentin Hube · 1942-09-14 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/KorpsPz/XIVPzKorps-R.htm

Romanian Cavalry Corps · Corps commander

Ioan Mihail Racoviță · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.worldwar2.ro/generali/?article=91

Hungarian IV Corps · Corps commander

Lajos Csatay · 1942-07-08 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IV_Corps_(Hungary)

Italian II Corps · Corps commander

Giovanni Zanghieri · 1942-07-18 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.regioesercito.it/pages/09-ARMIR%20AL%209%20LUGLIO%201942.pdf

Italian Alpine Corps · Corps commander

Gabriele Nasci · 1942-08-20 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Nasci

13th Army · Army commander

Nikolai Pukhov · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

Commander throughout scenario. Sources disagree on January accession date, irrelevant to this scope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Army_(Soviet_Union)

https://www.ww2.dk/new/army/armies/13oa.htm

40th Army · Army commander

Mikhail Parsegov · 1942-06-28 to 1942-07-03 (end date exclusive)

Command record uncertain · 1942-07-03 to 1942-07-04 (end date exclusive) · Sources differ for this period

Handover is listed as 3 July in Popov biography and 4 July in service chronology.

Markian Popov · 1942-07-04 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_Army_(1941–1945)

https://generals.dk/general/Popov/Markian_Mikhailovich/Soviet_Union.html

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Попов,_Маркиан_Михайлович

21st Army · Army commander

Aleksei Danilov · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

Danilov succeeded Gordov on 6 June; Chistyakov did not take over until after the scenario.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/21-я_армия_(СССР)

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/Glantz-lp7.pdf

28th Army · Army commander

Dmitry Ryabyshev · 1942-06-28 to 1942-07-04 (end date exclusive)

Vasily Kryuchyonkin · 1942-07-04 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

Same commander across the scenario’s 23 July 4th Tank Army conversion. Sources distinguish the 22 July order from the 1 August administrative formation; no new commander on conversion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Army_(Soviet_Union)

https://generals.dk/general/Kriuchenkin/Vasilii_Dmitrievich/Soviet_Union.html

38th Army · Army commander

Kirill Moskalenko · 1942-06-28 to 1942-08-07 (end date exclusive)

No single historical commander · 1942-08-07 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive) · Pooled formation

No unified commander for the scenario’s 62nd Army mobile-group remnants.

Moskalenko commanded 38th Army then 1st Tank Army. Exact formation dates differ from scenario events. Never map the later 38th Army under Chibisov onto this continuous counter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38th_Army_(Soviet_Union)

https://generals.dk/general/Moskalenko/Kirill_Semenovich/Soviet_Union.html

9th Army · Army commander

Anton Lopatin · 1942-06-28 to 1942-07-14 (end date exclusive)

Feofan Parkhomenko · 1942-07-14 to 1942-08-08 (end date exclusive)

Vladimir Marcinkiewicz · 1942-08-08 to 1942-08-29 (end date exclusive)

Command record uncertain · 1942-08-29 to 1942-09-04 (end date exclusive) · Historical command unavailable

Sources differ on 28/29 August relief; successor is documented from 4 September.

Konstantin Koroteev · 1942-09-04 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

English army summary overlaps Lopatin and Parkhomenko; 14 July follows the detailed Russian list. Marcinkiewicz also transliterated Martsinkevich.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-я_армия_(СССР)

https://generals.dk/general/Martsinkevich/Vladimir_Nikolaevich/Soviet_Union.html

https://generals.dk/general/Kozlov/Petr_Mikhailovich/Soviet_Union.html

37th Army · Army commander

Pyotr Kozlov · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://origin.armedconflicts.com/37th-Army-t79823

12th Army · Army commander

Andrei Grechko · 1942-06-28 to 1942-09-04 (end date exclusive)

Alexander Sokolsky · 1942-09-04 to 1942-09-13 (end date exclusive)

Nikolai Kirichenko · 1942-09-13 to 1942-09-20 (end date exclusive)

Historical command ended · 1942-09-20 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive) · Historical formation ended

Army headquarters reorganized as Tuapse Defense Region; no continuing historical 12th Army command.

If the game retains 12th Army beyond dissolution, use an explicit historical-command-unavailable fallback, not Grechko indefinitely. Acting commander is Alexander Kuzmich Sokolsky (1903–1979), verified in Ministry of Defence biography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Grechko

https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/pamyat-commander1172/

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-я_армия_(СССР)

18th Army · Army commander

Fyodor Kamkov · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_Army_(Soviet_Union)

https://www.armedconflicts.com/18th-Army-t34361

24th Army · Army commander

Ilya Smirnov · 1942-06-28 to 1942-07-15 (end date exclusive)

Vladimir Marcinkiewicz · 1942-07-15 to 1942-08-07 (end date exclusive)

No single historical commander · 1942-08-07 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive) · Pooled formation

Field-remnants and later 58th Army cadre-group counters are scenario abstractions without a verified unified commander.

Historical headquarters lineage: Vasily Khomenko commanded old 24th Army 7–23 August and 58th Army from 1 September. This is background only, not proof he commanded the scenario’s retained field-remnants pool. Separate new24 counter is Dmitry Kozlov, not Khomenko.

https://generals.dk/general/Smirnov/Ilia_Kornilovich/Soviet_Union.html

https://generals.dk/general/Martsinkevich/Vladimir_Nikolaevich/Soviet_Union.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56th_Army_(Soviet_Union)

56th Army · Army commander

Viktor Tsyganov · 1942-06-28 to 1942-07-01 (end date exclusive)

Alexander Ryzhov · 1942-07-01 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://www.valka.cz/56-armada-1941-1943-t35978

51st Army · Army commander

Aleksei Mikhailovich Kuznetsov · 1942-06-28 to 1942-07-02 (end date exclusive)

Nikolai Trufanov · 1942-07-02 to 1942-07-22 (end date exclusive)

Command record uncertain · 1942-07-22 to 1942-07-26 (end date exclusive) · Sources differ for this period

Detailed lists assign Yakov Cherevichenko 22–26 July; an archival-order transcription instead says Kolomiets took acting command on 23 July. Avoid a certain single portrait during this interval.

Trofim Kolomiets · 1942-07-26 to 1942-09-05 (end date exclusive)

Aleksei Mikhailovich Kuznetsov · 1942-09-05 to 1942-09-27 (end date exclusive)

Trofim Kolomiets · 1942-09-27 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

Do not confuse Aleksei Mikhailovich Kuznetsov with Vasily Ivanovich or Fyodor Isidorovich Kuznetsov. Trufanov’s return was 7 October, outside scenario.

https://generals.dk/general/Kuznetsov/Aleksei_Mikhailovich/Soviet_Union.html

https://generals.dk/general/Trufanov/Nikolai_Ivanovich/Soviet_Union.html

https://generals.dk/general/Kolomiets/Trofim_Kalinovich/Soviet_Union.html

https://samsv.narod.ru/Arm/a51/arm.html

https://don1942.ru/oborona-sovetskikh-vojsk-v-nizhnem-techenii-dona-letom-1942-goda/item/vossozdanie-51-j-armii

47th Army · Army commander

Grigory Kotov · 1942-06-28 to 1942-09-08 (end date exclusive)

Command record uncertain · 1942-09-08 to 1942-09-18 (end date exclusive) · Sources differ for this period

Grechko memoir and Valka place handover on 8 September; detailed army list gives 18 September.

Andrei Grechko · 1942-09-18 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

If choosing one handover for display, 8 September has memoir support; retain the source discrepancy in a note.

https://www.valka.cz/47-armada-1941-1946-t31746

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/47-я_армия_(СССР)

https://nurembergtrial.histrf.ru/articles/tags/wars/20/952/t43531/

44th Army · Army commander

Andrei Khryashchev · 1942-06-28 to 1942-08-02 (end date exclusive)

June–July identity is supported by army histories; 2 August cutoff follows Zalessky. Grechko memoir still identifies Khryashchev in the early-August defense plan. Biographical lists contain inconsistent termination dates.

Command record uncertain · 1942-08-02 to 1942-08-26 (end date exclusive) · Sources differ for this period

Khryashchev relief dates in sources range from 2 June/July to 2/10 August; Petrov is securely documented from 26 August. No certain single commander is assigned in this handover interval.

Ivan Yefimovich Petrov · 1942-08-26 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

Khryashchev is the supported June–July commander. Exact end of command is disputed; the earlier 2 July cutoff in this research was overly conservative after cross-checking Grechko’s memoir. Petrov’s accession is dated 26 August in Russian State Archive biographical material. Do not extend Petrov back into June.

https://generals.dk/general/Khriashchev/Andrei_Alekseevich/Soviet_Union.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44th_Army

https://projects.rusarchives.ru/rgafd/War-history-USSR-fono-RGAFD/files/assets/common/downloads/publication.pdf

https://litresp.ru/chitat/ru/Г/grechko-a-a/bitva-za-kavkaz

https://www.soldat.ru/files/f/000001b0.pdf

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Хрящев,_Андрей_Алексеевич

5th Tank Army · Army commander

Alexander Lizyukov · 1942-06-28 to 1942-07-15 (end date exclusive)

No single historical commander · 1942-07-15 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive) · Pooled formation

Fifth Tank Army was dissolved in mid-July. Thereafter counter is a pool of surviving tank corps, with no single historical commander.

Scenario event uses 17 July; accounts vary 15–19 July. Do not attach Rybalko or Romanenko of the later formation to this pool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Tank_Army

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lizyukov

https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.1614183.8

Bryansk mobile reserve · Army commander

No single historical commander · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive) · Pooled formation

Multiple formations pooled for gameplay; no historical unified commander.

Scenario pool combining multiple formations; no single historical commander.

https://www.soldat.ru/files/f/boevoj_sostav_sa_1942.pdf

Southwest mobile reserve · Army commander

No single historical commander · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive) · Pooled formation

Multiple formations pooled for gameplay; no historical unified commander.

Scenario pool combining multiple formations; no single historical commander.

https://www.soldat.ru/files/f/boevoj_sostav_sa_1942.pdf

7th Reserve Army · Army commander

Vladimir Kolpakchi · 1942-06-28 to 1942-08-03 (end date exclusive)

Anton Lopatin · 1942-08-03 to 1942-09-06 (end date exclusive)

Nikolai Krylov · 1942-09-06 to 1942-09-10 (end date exclusive)

Vasily Chuikov · 1942-09-10 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

10 September is the formal service-list date; accounts of physical assumption of command say 11 or 12 September.

Kolpakchi also commanded 7th Reserve Army. The 10 July redesignation does not change commander. Army-summary claim that Chuikov commanded from mid-August is erroneous.

https://generals.dk/general/Kolpakchi/Vladimir_Iakovlevich/Soviet_Union.html

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/62-я_армия

https://generals.dk/general/Chuikov/Vasilii_Ivanovich/Soviet_Union.html

https://stalingrad.vpravda.ru/stati/80-let-nazad-12-sentyabrya-1942-goda-v-dni-nachala-samyh-strashnyh-boev-v-stalingrade-komanduyushchim-62-y-armiey-stal

https://don1942.ru/oborona-sovetskikh-vojsk-v-nizhnem-techenii-dona-letom-1942-goda/item/balans-sil

5th Reserve Army · Army commander

Vasily Ivanovich Kuznetsov · 1942-06-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

June reserve-army identification is supported by archive-referenced Don1942 narrative; 63rd Army commander from July.

Same person through 5th Reserve → 63rd Army. Generals.dk reserve formation number is inconsistent, so use the archive-referenced source for June.

https://don1942.ru/oborona-sovetskikh-vojsk-v-nizhnem-techenii-dona-letom-1942-goda/item/balans-sil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/63rd_Army_(Soviet_Union)

https://generals.dk/general/Kuznetsov/Vasilii_Ivanovich/Soviet_Union.html

1st Reserve Army · Army commander

Vasily Chuikov · 1942-06-28 to 1942-08-04 (end date exclusive)

Mikhail Shumilov · 1942-08-04 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

Chuikov is documented commanding 1st Reserve Army from May. Russian Wikipedia lists Gordov before 22 July, but this is contradicted by Chuikov service chronology, English army list, and reserve narrative; do not propagate Gordov without stronger evidence.

https://generals.dk/general/Chuikov/Vasilii_Ivanovich/Soviet_Union.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64th_Army_(Soviet_Union)

https://don1942.ru/oborona-sovetskikh-vojsk-v-nizhnem-techenii-dona-letom-1942-goda/item/balans-sil

60th Army · Army commander

Maxim Antonyuk · 1942-07-07 to 1942-07-25 (end date exclusive)

Ivan Chernyakhovsky · 1942-07-25 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

Antonyuk commanded preceding 3rd Reserve Army from 3 July; source lists sometimes date 60th formation to 10 July rather than scenario’s 7 July.

https://don1942.ru/oborona-sovetskikh-vojsk-v-nizhnem-techenii-dona-letom-1942-goda/item/balans-sil

https://military.wikireading.ru/14005

6th Army · Army commander

Fyodor Kharitonov · 1942-07-07 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

Kharitonov commanded the preceding 6th Reserve Army from 2 July. Formal 6th Army service list starts 8 July; same commander at scenario arrival on 7 July.

https://www.armedconflicts.com/-t178107

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Guards_Combined_Arms_Army

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/6-army-history.htm

57th Army (rebuilt) · Army commander

Dmitry Nikishov · 1942-07-22 to 1942-07-25 (end date exclusive)

Command record uncertain · 1942-07-25 to 1942-07-27 (end date exclusive) · Historical command unavailable

Gap between listed relief and successor appointment.

Fyodor Tolbukhin · 1942-07-27 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

Nikishov also spelled Nikishev. Do not use Tolbukhin at the scenario’s 22 July arrival before his documented appointment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57th_Army_(Soviet_Union)

https://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_tolbukhin.html

https://nlr.ru/res/epubl/rue/texts/volgograd/RUS/enciklopediya/1/P.html

46th Army pass defense · Army commander

Vasily Sergatskov · 1942-08-01 to 1942-08-28 (end date exclusive)

Konstantin Leselidze · 1942-08-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46th_Army

1st Guards Army · Army commander

Kirill Moskalenko · 1942-08-09 to 1942-09-28 (end date exclusive)

Ivan Chistyakov · 1942-09-28 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

Golikov commanded briefly at formation, then was relieved 9 August; using Moskalenko on scenario arrival follows the service-list date. Moskalenko is no longer commander of su-38 by this time.

https://generals.dk/general/Moskalenko/Kirill_Semenovich/Soviet_Union.html

https://generals.dk/general/Chistiakov/Ivan_Mikhailovich/Soviet_Union.html

https://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/ivanov_sp/10.html

24th Army (new formation) · Army commander

Dmitry Kozlov · 1942-09-01 to 1942-10-01 (end date exclusive)

Ivan Galanin · 1942-10-01 to 1942-10-06 (end date exclusive)

This is the new September 24th Army from Ninth Reserve Army, distinct from su-24 remnants. Dmitry Timofeyevich Kozlov is not Pyotr Mikhailovich Kozlov.