'Toni' was a German series of military convoys from Genichesk in southern Ukraine across the Sea of Azov to Temryuk on the northern side of the Taman peninsula in the Kuban region of the southern USSR to supply Generaloberst Richard Ruoff’s (from 24 June Generaloberst Erwin Jaenecke’s) 17^th Army in the Kuban area to the east of the Strait of Kerch (1943).