How many fresh Soviet divisions did Stalin bring forward by the middle of August 1941?

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Operation Barbarossa German soldiers fighting in the Soviet Union as part of Operation Barbarossa, 1941.

By the middle of August 1941, the Soviet Union had brought up more than 200 fresh divisions to the front, bringing their total to 360 divisions.12

This significant mobilization was a major miscalculation by the German intelligence service, which had estimated that the Soviets would only be able to produce 50 additional divisions beyond the approximately 150 they had initially identified in the western parts of the U.S.S.R.. Consequently, although the German forces succeeded in shattering the original Soviet armies, they were subsequently confronted by these fresh reserves, which effectively blocked their path.12