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:
- 24th Army, with ten divisions, three gun, one howitzer, and three corps artillery regiments, and four anti-tank artillery regiments;
- 28th Army, with nine divisions, one gun, one howitzer, and four corps artillery regiments, and four anti-tank artillery regiments;
- 29th Army, with five divisions, five regiments of artillery, and two regiments and one squadron of aviation;
- 30th Army, with five divisions, one corps artillery regiment, and two AA artillery regiments;
- 31st Army, with six divisions, one corps artillery regiment, and two anti-tank artillery regiments; and
- 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 on October 10, 1941.
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