# Reserve Front

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{{Short description|Military formation of the WW2 Red Army}}
thumb|right|Army General Georgy Zhukov near Yelnya, 1941.
The '''Reserve Front''' was a [major formation](/source/Front_(military_formation)) of the [Red Army](/source/Red_Army) during the [Second World War](/source/World_War_II).

==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:<ref>STAVKA Order 003334, Collection of Combat Documents of the Great Patriotic War, ('SBDVOV'), Moscow, [Voenizdat](/source/Voenizdat), 1958(?), Issue 37, p.13, cited in Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, p.215</ref>

*[24th Army](/source/24th_Army_(Soviet_Union)), with ten divisions, three gun, one howitzer, and three corps artillery regiments, and four anti-tank artillery regiments;
*[28th Army](/source/28th_Army_(Soviet_Union)), with nine divisions, one gun, one howitzer, and four corps artillery regiments, and four anti-tank artillery regiments;
*[29th Army](/source/29th_Army_(Soviet_Union)), with five divisions, five regiments of artillery, and two regiments and one squadron of aviation;
*[30th Army](/source/30th_Army_(Soviet_Union)), with five divisions, one corps artillery regiment, and two AA artillery regiments;
*[31st Army](/source/31st_Army_(Soviet_Union)), with six divisions, one corps artillery regiment, and two anti-tank artillery regiments; and
*[32nd Army](/source/32nd_Army_(Soviet_Union)), with seven divisions (apparently including the [8th Rifle Division](/source/8th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union))), and one anti-tank artillery regiment.

This Front was encircled and destroyed at [Vyazma](/source/Vyazma). 

The surviving forces transferred to the [Western Front](/source/Soviet_Western_Front) on October 10, 1941 under the command of Zhukov.<ref name=GeorgyZhukov>{{Cite book |last=Zhukov |first=Georgy |title=Marshal of Victory, Volume II |publisher=Pen and Sword Books Ltd. |year=1974 |ISBN=9781781592915 |page=19}}</ref>

==2nd Formation==
The second version of this Front was created on April 6, 1943. It incorporated the:
*[2nd Reserve Army (3rd Formation)](/source/Reserve_Army_(Soviet_Union))
*[24th Army](/source/24th_Army_(Soviet_Union))
*[53rd Army](/source/53rd_Army_(Soviet_Union))
*[66th Army](/source/66th_Army_(Soviet_Union))
*[47th Army](/source/47th_Army_(Soviet_Union))
*[46th Army](/source/46th_Army_(Soviet_Union))
*[5th Guards Tank Army](/source/5th_Guards_Tank_Army)
*eight mobile corps

It was reorganized as the [Steppe Military District](/source/Steppe_Military_District) on April 15, 1943 and eventually designated the [Steppe Front](/source/Steppe_Front).

== Commanders ==
* Lieutenant General of NKVD [Ivan A. Bogdanov](/source/Ivan_Bogdanov) [Front of Reserve Armies] (14–30 July, 1941)
* General [Georgy K. Zhukov](/source/Georgy_Zhukov) (August–September 1941)
* Marshal [Semyon M. Budenny](/source/Semyon_Budyonny) (September – 10 October, 1941)
* Lieutenant General [Markian M. Popov](/source/Markian_Popov) (6–15 April, 1943)

==See also==
*[Reserve of the Supreme High Command](/source/Reserve_of_the_Supreme_High_Command)
*[Reserve duty (Israel)](/source/Reserve_duty_(Israel))
==Notes==
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==References==
*[David Glantz](/source/David_Glantz), Stumbling Colossus, University Press of Kansas, 1998
*[David Glantz](/source/David_Glantz), Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War 1941-43, University Press of Kansas, 2005

{{Fronts of the Red Army in World War II}}

Western Front

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