the Caucasus, the North Caucasian Front included the Black Sea Group of Forces consisting of the 46th Army (Konstantin Leselidze), 18th Army (Alexander Ryzhov), 47th Army (Fyodor Kamkov), 56th Army (Andrei Grechko), 5th Air Army (Sergei Goryunov), 13th Separate Rifle Corps 16th Separate Rifle Corps. The Northern Group of Forces commanded the 37th Army (Pyotr Kozlov, 9th Army (Konstantin Koroteev), 58th Army (Kondrat Melnik), 44th Army (Vasily Khomenko), 4th Air Army (Nikolai Naumenko), 10th Separate Rifle Corps. Additionally it commanded the Black Sea Fleet and the Baku Army of PVO. The fighting remained reasonably static from February until September 1943 when the Germans ordered fresh withdrawals from the Kuban bridgehead, which effectively ended the period of fighting in the Caucasus. The Front was reorganized into the Separate Coastal Army on November 20, 1943 during the Kerch-Eltigen Operation, the Soviet amphibious crossing of the Sea of Azov. Sources Kursk Order of Battle Soviet fronts