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{{Short description|Military formation of the WW2 Red Army}}
[[File:Georgy_Zhukov_8.jpg|thumb|right|Army General Georgy Zhukov near Yelnya, 1941.]]
The '''Reserve Front''' was a [[Front (military formation)|major formation]] of the [[Red Army]] during the [[World War II|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:<ref>STAVKA Order 003334, Collection of Combat Documents of the Great Patriotic War, ('SBDVOV'), Moscow, [[Voenizdat]], 1958(?), Issue 37, p.13, cited in Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, p.215</ref>

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

This Front was encircled and destroyed at [[Vyazma]]. 

The surviving forces transferred to the [[Soviet Western Front|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:
*[[Reserve Army (Soviet Union)|2nd Reserve Army (3rd Formation)]]
*[[24th Army (Soviet Union)|24th Army]]
*[[53rd Army (Soviet Union)|53rd Army]]
*[[66th Army (Soviet Union)|66th Army]]
*[[47th Army (Soviet Union)|47th Army]]
*[[46th Army (Soviet Union)|46th Army]]
*[[5th Guards Tank Army]]
*eight mobile corps

It was reorganized as the [[Steppe Military District]] on April 15, 1943 and eventually designated the [[Steppe Front]].

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

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

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[[Category:Soviet fronts|Western Front]]

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