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:[1]
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.
^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
^Zhukov, Georgy (1974). Marshal of Victory, Volume II. Pen and Sword Books Ltd. p. 19. ISBN9781781592915.
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
