 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Kuita kwaYeryomenko mukurwisa kwechando kwakadzorera chivimbo chaStalin, uye akapiwa kutungamira kweSoutheastern Front, musi waAugust 1, 1942, kwaakaenderera mberi nekutanga kurwisa zvine simba kurwisa kurwisa kweGerman muCaucasus, Fall Blau. Yeryomenko naCommissar Nikita Khrushchev vakaronga kudzivirirwa kweStalingrad, vachiunganidza nekurongazve varume nemidziyo inodzokera kuguta kubva kuRwizi rweDon nemasango kumadokero. Apo mumwe wevarwi vake, Gen. Anton Lopatin, akanga asina chokwadi kana 62nd Army yake yaizokwanisa kudzivirira Stalingrad, Yeryomenko akamutsiva naLt. Gen. Vasily Chuikov semutungamiri wemauto musi waSeptember 11, 1942. Chuikov ne62nd Army vakapfuurira kuzviratidza sevadziviriri veguta, vachisimbisa kutonga kwaYeryomenko. Musi waSeptember 28, Southeastern Front yakatumidzwa kuti Stalingrad Front. 