The Reserve Front was a
major formation of the
Red Army during the
Second World War.
First Formation
The Reserve Front describes either of two distinct organizations during the war. The first version was created on July 30, 1941 in a reorganization of the earlier Front of Reserve Armies. STAVKA Order No.003334, of 14 July, directed that the Front of Reserve Armies include:
[STAVKA Order 003334, Collection of Combat Documents of the Great Patriotic War, ('SBDVOV'), Moscow, ]Voenizdat
Voenizdat (russian: Воениздат) was a publishing house in Moscow, Russia that was one of the first and largest publishing houses in USSR. The name is a Russian abbreviation for "Voennoe Izdatelstvo", meaning "Military Publication".
Voen ...
, 1958(?), Issue 37, p.13, cited in Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, p.215
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24th Army, with ten divisions, three gun, one howitzer, and three corps artillery regiments, and four anti-tank artillery regiments;
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28th Army, with nine divisions, one gun, one howitzer, and four corps artillery regiments, and four anti-tank artillery regiments;
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29th Army, with five divisions, five regiments of artillery, and two regiments and one squadron of aviation;
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30th Army, with five divisions, one corps artillery regiment, and two AA artillery regiments;
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31st Army, with six divisions, one corps artillery regiment, and two anti-tank artillery regiments; and
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32nd Army, with seven divisions (apparently including the
8th Rifle Division), and one anti-tank artillery regiment.
This Front was encircled and destroyed at
Vyazma.
The surviving forces transferred to the
Western Front Western Front or West Front may refer to:
Military frontiers
*Western Front (World War I), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (World War II), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (Russian Empire), a majo ...
on October 10, 1941 under the command of Zhukov.
2nd Formation
The second version of this Front was created on April 6, 1943. It incorporated the:
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2nd Reserve Army (3rd Formation)
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24th Army
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53rd Army
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66th Army
The 66th Army was a field army of the Red Army. It was established in August 1942 from the 8th Reserve Army. The 66th Army fought to break through to the Volga to the north of Stalingrad during September and October 1942. During Operation Uranus, ...
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47th Army The 47th Army (russian: 47-я армия) of the Soviet Union's Red Army was an army-level command active from 1941 to 1946.
History
The 47th Army was formed in late July 1941 in the Transcaucasian Military District as part of the Soviet Union's ...
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46th Army
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5th Guards Tank Army
The 5th Guards Tank Army (Russian: 5-я гварде́йская та́нковая а́рмия) was a Soviet Guards armored formation which fought in many notable actions during World War II. The army was formed in February 1943. Until the aft ...
*eight mobile corps
It was reorganized as the Steppe Military District on April 15, 1943 and eventually designated the
Steppe Front
The Steppe Front (russian: Степной фронт) was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War which existed from July to October 1943.
History
On 9 July 1943, Stavka designated a new Reserve Front in the Voronezh region, that had ...
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Commanders
* Lieutenant General of NKVD
Ivan A. Bogdanov ront of Reserve Armies(14–30 July, 1941)
* General
Georgy K. Zhukov (August–September 1941)
* Marshal
Semyon M. Budenny (September – 10 October, 1941)
* Lieutenant General
Markian M. Popov (6–15 April, 1943)
See also
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Reserve of the Supreme High Command
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Reserve duty (Israel)
In reserve duty (or reserve service; he, שירות מילואים, ''Sherut Milu'im''), Israeli residents who have completed military service are assigned to the Israel Defense Forces' military reserve force to provide reinforcements during emer ...
Notes
References
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David Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, University Press of Kansas, 1998
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David Glantz, Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War 1941-43, University Press of Kansas, 2005
Western Front Western Front or West Front may refer to:
Military frontiers
*Western Front (World War I), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (World War II), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (Russian Empire), a majo ...
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