Military offices Preceded byUnidentified Commanding General of the 192nd Rifle Division 1940 Succeeded byUnidentified Preceded byNewly Formed Commanding General of the 27th Mechanized Corps 1941 Succeeded byDisbanded Preceded byUnidentified Commanding General of the 1st Cavalry Division 1941 Succeeded byUnidentified Preceded byUnidentified Commanding General of the 2nd Cavalry Division 1941 Succeeded byUnidentified Preceded byAthanasius Zakharchenko Commanding General of the 25th Rifle Division 1941 Succeeded byTrofim Kolomiets Preceded byLieutenant Georgy Sofronov Commanding General of the Separate Coastal Army October 1941 – July 1942 Succeeded byDisbanded Preceded byAndrei Khryashchev Commanding General of the 44th Army August 1942 – October 1942 Succeeded byKondrat Melnik Preceded byYakov Cherevichenko Commanding General of the Black Sea Group of Forces October 1942 – March 1943 Succeeded byDisbanded Preceded byColonel General Ivan Maslennikov Commander of the Northern Caucasian Front March 1943 – 20 November 1943 Succeeded byDisbanded Preceded by2nd Formation of the Army(Command elements from Northern Caucasian Front) Commander of the Coastal Army 20 November 1943 – February 1944 Succeeded byArmy General Andrey Yeryomenko Preceded byGeneral-Colonel Vasily Gordov Commander of the 33rd Army March 1944 – April 1944 Succeeded byGeneral-Lieutenant Vasily Kryuchenkin Preceded byColonel General Pavel A. Kurochkin Commander of the 2nd Belorussian Front April 1944 – June 1944 Succeeded byGeneral of the Army Georgii Zakharov Preceded byFyodor Tolbukhin Commander of the 4th Ukrainian Front 1944 – April 1945 Succeeded byArmy General Andrey Yeryomenko Preceded byVasily Sokolovsky Chief of Staff of the 1st Ukrainian Front April 1945 – June 1945 Succeeded byDisbanded to form the Central Group of Forces Preceded byReformed from the Split of the Central Asian Military District Command staff came from the 1st Shock Army Commander of the Turkestan Military District 9 July 1945 – 1952 Succeeded byAlexei Radzievsky