Reserve Army (Soviet Union)
Type of formation of the Red Army in WW2
The Reserve Armies were a group of armies formed by the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. Formed to control the training of newly formed units in the rear areas and provide army level headquarters to reconstitute destroyed armies or to form new armies. The Reserve Armies provided the Soviet High Command with a quickly deployable army headquarters to help stem German breakthroughs in the early part of the war.
1st Reserve Army
Former 24th Army January 1942.
First Formation redesignated 64th Army July 1942.
Second Formation redesignated 2nd Guards Army December 1942.
2nd Reserve Army
First Formation redesignated 1st Guards Army (First Formation) 7 August 1942.
Second Formation redesignated 63rd Army (Second Formation) April 1943.
3rd Reserve Army
First Formation redesignated 60th Army July 1942.
Second Formation redesignated 2nd Tank Army January 1943.
Third Formation redesignated 21st Army July 1943.
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