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6th Army (Russian Empire)
The Russian Sixth Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern theatre of war. The 6th Army Field Headquarters was established in July 1914 at the Saint Petersburg Military District. The task of the Army between July 1914 and December 1916 was to defend the coasts of the Baltic and White Sea, and the approaches to St. Petersburg. In August 1915, it became part of the newly formed Northern Front. With the creation of the Romanian Front in December 1916, the staff was transferred to the Danube Army in Romania, which was renamed the 6th Army. The old 6th Army units became part of the Northern Front. Commanders * 1912-09-01 – 1914-08-26 — General of Infantry Alexander Blagoveshchensky * 1914-08-26 – 1915-06-21 — General of Artillery Konstantin Fan-der-Flit * 1915-06-30 – 1915-08-18 — General of Infantry Nikolai Ruzsky * 1915-08-20 – 1916-03-20 — General of Infantry Aleksiej Czurin * 1916-03-20 – 1916-12-12 — General of Infantry Vladimir ...
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World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdin ...
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Eastern Front (World War I)
The Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I (german: Ostfront; ro, Frontul de răsărit; russian: Восточный фронт, Vostochny front) was a theater (warfare), theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between Russian Empire, Russia and Kingdom of Romania, Romania on one side and Austria-Hungary, Kingdom of Bulgaria, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Empire, and German Empire, Germany on the other. It stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, involved most of Eastern Europe, and stretched deep into Central Europe as well. The term contrasts with "Western Front (World War I), Western Front", which was being fought in Belgium and French Third Republic, France. During 1910, Russian General Yuri Danilov developed "Plan 19" under which four armies would invade East Prussia. This plan was criticised as Austria-Hungary could be a greater threat than the German Empire. So instead of four arm ...
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Petersburg Military District (Russian Empire)
The Petersburg Military District (Питербургский вое́нный о́круг) was a Military District of the Russian Empire originally created in August 1864 following Order B-228 of Dmitry Milyutin, the Minister of War of the Russian Empire. The order, signed on 10 (22) August established that "for local control of the Ground Armed Forces and military establishments, are formed ... Military-regional administrations in the following ten military districts" of which one was Petersburg. The District's forces gained combat experience in the Russo-Turkish (1877–1878) and Russo-Japanese (1904–05) wars. Finland Military District was merged into the Petersburg District in 1905. By a decision of Emperor Nicholas II on 24 August 1914, the names of units and establishments within the District were changed to Petrograd Military District. This District was established as a part of the RKKA by order в"– 71 of the Highest Military Council of 6 September 1918. On 1 Fe ...
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Northern Front (Russian Empire)
The Northern Front (russian: Северный фронт) was an army group of the Imperial Russian Army during the World War I. It was responsible for carrying out operations against the Central Powers along a front line that stretched 280 kilometers, from Riga in the north down to northern Belarus. It was established in August 1915 when the Northwestern Front was split into the Northern and Western Front following the Great Retreat, and existed until the demobilization of the Russian army in 1918 due to the unrest from the Russian Revolution. In 1917 it had a total troop strength of 1.4 million men.Северный фронт
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Armies of the Northern Front

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Romanian Front (Russian Empire)
The Romanian Front (russian: Румынский фронт) was an army group level command of the Imperial Russian Army and the Romanian Army during the First World War. Overview The front was created in mid-December 1916 out of the headquarters of the former Russian Danube Army, following the defeat of Romanian Army forces at the Battle of Turtucaia in Southern Dobrudja. Nominally. the commanding officer of the front was King Ferdinand I of Romania; however, the ''de facto'' power lay in his "deputies," which were Imperial Russian Army generals delegated by the Russian Stavka. Initially the front consisted of three armies: the Russian 4th, 6th, and 9th Armies. Soon it was joined by the forces of the Romanian 1st Army under General Constantin Cristescu and the Romanian Second Army under Alexandru Averescu, and, in September 1917, by the Russian 8th Army. Following the October Revolution of 7 November 1917, the front was merged with the Southwestern Front as the Ukrainian ...
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Russian Danube Army (World War I)
The Russian Danube Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Romanian Front. Field management was established in November 1916, when the Dobruja Army was disbanded after the loss of the Cernavodă-Constanța line (following the Second Battle of Cobadin) to the German-Bulgarian-Ottoman Army under command of August von Mackensen. The army consisted of: * the 47th Army Corps (General Vasiliy Artemiev) **61st Infantry Division (General Panteleimon Simanskiy) **115th Infantry Division (General Aleksandr Freiman) **3rd Caucasian Rifle Division (General Feliks Iozefovich) **3rd Don Cossack Division (General Aleksandr Dolgorukov) **27th Mortar Artillery Battalion * the 6th Cavalry Corps (General Aleksandr Pavlov) **12th Cavalry Division (General Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim) **Trans-Amur Horse Division (General Georgiy Rozalion-Soshalskiy) **4th Armed Vehicle Division (Lieutenant Colonel Orest Zhelyabuzhskiy) **10th Armed Vehicle Detachment **11th Armed Vehicle Detachme ...
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Konstantin Fan-der-Flit
The first name Konstantin () is a derivation from the Latin name ''Constantinus (name), Constantinus'' (Constantine (name), Constantine) in some Languages of Europe, European languages, such as Russian language, Russian and German language, German. As a Christianity, Christian given name, it refers to the memory of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. A number of notable persons in the Byzantine Empire, and (via mediation by the Christian Eastern Orthodox Church) in History of Russia, Russian history and earlier Early East Slavs, East Slavic history are often referred to by this name. "Konstantin" means "firm, constant". There is a number of variations of the name throughout European cultures: * Константин (Konstantin) in Russian language, Russian (diminutive Костя/Kostya), Bulgarian (diminutives Косьо/Kosyo, Коце/Kotse) and Serbian * Костянтин (Kostiantyn) in Ukrainian language, Ukrainian (diminutive Костя/Kostya) * Канстанцін ...
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Nikolai Ruzsky
Nikolai Vladimirovich Ruzsky (russian: Никола́й Влади́мирович Ру́зский; – October 18, 1918) was a Imperial Russia, Russian general, member of the state and military councils, best known for his role in World War I and the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, Tsar Nicholas II. Early life Nikolai Vladimirovich Ruzsky was born in the Russian Empire on March 6, 1854, into a family of nobility from the Kaluga Governorate. The Ruzsky family's origins trace back to the mayor of the town of Ruza near Moscow during the late 1700s, Aleksei Mikhailovich Lermontov (the Ruzsky family was of the Ostrozhnikovskaya line of the Lermontov family). His father, Vladimir Dmitriyevich, was an official in the 12th Grade. His father died when Ruzsky was a year old and he was put under auspices by the Moscow Custodian Council. Early career In 1870, Ruzsky graduated from the Cadet Corps (Russia), Cadet Corps at first class. In 1872, he graduated from the Konstantino ...
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Vladimir Gorbatovsky
Vladimir Nikolayevich Gorbatovsky (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Горбато́вский, May 26, 1851 – July 30, 1924) was an Imperial Russian army commander. He fought in the wars against the Ottoman Empire and the Empire of Japan. Gorbatovsky commanded the Twelfth Army during the Lake Naroch offensive. Awards *Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov), 3rd class, 1876 *Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class, 1878 *Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov), 2nd class, 1879 *Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class, 1883 *Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th class, 1888 *Order of Saint Vladimir, 3rd class, 1896 *Order of Saint Anna, 1st class, 1904 *Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov), 1st class, 1904 *Order of Saint George, 4th degree, 1904 *Order of Saint Vladimir, 2nd class, 1905 *Order of the White Eagle (Russian Empire), 1911 *Order of Saint George The Order of Saint George (russian: Орден Святого Георгия, Orden Svyatogo Georgiya) is ...
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Afanasy Curikov
Afanasy (russian: Афана́сий) is the Russian form of Athanasios, a Greek name meaning "immortal". It may refer to: People: * Afanasy Bagration, Prince Adarnase of Kartli (1707–1784), Georgian prince royal and Russian Empire general * Afanasy Beloborodov (1903–1990), Russian general * Afanasy Fet (1820–1892), Russian poet * Afanasy Grigoriev (1782–1868), Russian architect * Afanasy Nikitin (died 1472), Russian merchant and traveler * Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin (1605–1680), Russian statesman * Afanasy Razmaritsyn (1844–1917), Russian-Ukrainian painter * Afanasy Seredin-Sabatin (1860–1921), Russian architect and journalist, first Western architect to live and work in the Korean Empire * Afanasy Shchapov (1830–1876), Russian historian Fictional people: * Afanasy Ivanovich Tovstogub, the main character of Nikolai Gogol's short story ''The Old World Landowners'' The surname Afanasyev (russian: Афана́сьев) is derived from the name. The surname Afonin Afon ...
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List Of Russian Armies In World War I
List of Russian armies in World War I This page is a list of Russian army formations existing during World War I. * 1st Army * 2nd Army * 3rd Army * 4th Army * 5th Army * 6th Army * 7th Army * 8th Army * 9th Army * 10th Army * 11th Army * 12th Army * 13th Army * Caucasus Army * Dobruja Army * Danube Army * Special Army See also * List of armies * Imperial Russian Army formations and units (1914) This article lists Imperial Russian Army formations and units in 1914 prior to World War I mobilisation for the Russian invasion of Prussia and the liberation Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia. The prewar chain of command was: military distr ... {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Russian Armies In WWI Russian Empire in World War I Lists of military units and formations of World War I Military units and formations of Russia in World War I Military of the Russian Empire Armies of the Russian Empire Lists of Russian and Soviet military units and formations ...
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List Of Imperial Russian Army Formations And Units
This article lists Imperial Russian Army formations and units in 1914 prior to World War I mobilisation for the Russian invasion of Prussia and the liberation Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia. The prewar chain of command was: military district, corps (or ''Army corps''), then to division, brigade, regiment, and then the regiment's battalions. After mobilisation in the event of war the chain of command of the Imperial Russian Army ran from Stavka, the Russian general headquarters, which was created during mobilization, to Front-level ( Army group) also created during mobilization, to the Army level. Army headquarters were created during mobilization by transformation of the military district headquarters. Below Army level the chain was the same as in peace-time; corps (or ''Army corps'' (terms used interchangeably), division, brigade, and regiment. ;Abbreviations used: *ACorps = Army Corps (ak = armeysky korpus) *MD = Military district (VO = voenny okrug) *GrenCorps = Gren ...
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