<p style='text-indent:20px;'>For an integer <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ r\ge0 $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>, we prove the <inline-formula><tex-math id="M2">\begin{document}$ r^{\mathrm{th}} $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> order Reshetnyak formula for the ray transform of rank <inline-formula><tex-math id="M3">\begin{document}$ m $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> symmetric tensor fields on <inline-formula><tex-math id="M4">\begin{document}$ {{\mathbb R}}^n $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>. Roughly speaking, for a tensor field <inline-formula><tex-math id="M5">\begin{document}$ f $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>, the order <inline-formula><tex-math id="M6">\begin{document}$ r $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> refers to <inline-formula><tex-math id="M7">\begin{document}$ L^2 $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>-integrability of higher order derivatives of the Fourier transform <inline-formula><tex-math id="M8">\begin{document}$ \widehat f $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> over spheres centered at the origin. Certain differential operators <inline-formula><tex-math id="M9">\begin{document}$ A^{(m,r,l)}\ (0\le l\le r) $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> on the sphere <inline-formula><tex-math id="M10">\begin{document}$ {{\mathbb S}}^{n-1} $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> are main ingredients of the formula. The operators are defined by an algorithm that can be applied for any <inline-formula><tex-math id="M11">\begin{document}$ r $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> although the volume of calculations grows fast with <inline-formula><tex-math id="M12">\begin{document}$ r $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>. The algorithm is realized for small values of <inline-formula><tex-math id="M13">\begin{document}$ r $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> and Reshetnyak formulas of orders <inline-formula><tex-math id="M14">\begin{document}$ 0,1,2 $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> are presented in an explicit form.</p>