Moscow Line of Defence

The Moscow Line of Defence was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War. On 19 July 1941 it was set up to organise the defence of Moscow and on 30 July 1941 it was dissolved and its forces transferred to the Reserve Front.

Fronts of the Red Army in World War II

1938–40	Northwestern Belorussian Ukrainian Far Eastern

June 1941	Northern Northwestern Western Southwestern Southern Far Eastern

Mid-war	Karelian Leningrad Volkhov Kalinin Central Bryansk Moscow Defence Zone Moscow Line of Defence Moscow Reserve Front Maritime Group of Forces Reserve Oryol Kursk Voronezh Don Stalingrad Southeastern Steppe North Caucasian Transcaucasian Caucasian Crimean

Late war	1st Baltic 2nd Baltic 3rd Baltic 1st Belorussian 2nd Belorussian 3rd Belorussian 1st Ukrainian 2nd Ukrainian 3rd Ukrainian 4th Ukrainian Transbaikal 1st Far Eastern 2nd Far Eastern

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