The 21st Infantry Division (russian: 21-я пехотная дивизия, ''21-ya Pekhotnaya Diviziya'') was an
infantry
Infantry is a military specialization which engages in ground combat on foot. Infantry generally consists of light infantry, mountain infantry, motorized infantry & mechanized infantry, airborne infantry, air assault infantry, and marine i ...
formation of the
Russian Imperial Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...
.
Organization
*1st Brigade
**81st His Imperial Highness Grand Duke George Mikhailovich's Apsheron Infantry Regiment
**82nd His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich's Dagestan Infantry Regiment
*2nd Brigade
**83rd Samur Infantry Regiment
**84th Shirvan Infantry Regiment
*21st Artillery Brigade
Commanders
*1826-1828:
Georgiy Evseevich Eristov
*1865-1868:
Ivan Davidovich Lazarev
Ivan Davidovich Lazarev ( hy, Հովհաննես Դավթի Լազարյան, Hovhannes Davti Lazarian; russian: Иван Давыдович Лазарев; 17 October 1820 – 14 August 1879) was an Imperial Russian Army general of Armenian ...
*1868-1871:
Fyodor Radetzky
Fyodor Fyodorovich Radetsky (Radetzky in German) (; 1820–1890) was a Russian general of German- Silesian extraction. He founded the city of Krasnovodsk (modern Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan) in 1869. He commanded the Russian forces at the 3rd stag ...
*1913-1914:
Samad bey Mehmandarov
Samad bey Sadykh bey oghlu Mehmandarov ( az, Səməd bəy Sadıx bəy oğlu Mehmandarov; October 16, 1855 – February 12, 1931) was an Azerbaijani General of the Artillery in the Imperial Russian Army and served as Minister of Defense o ...
*1915:
Mikhail Kvetsinsky
:''Kvetsinsky leads here. For the Polish variant, see Kwieciński''
Mikhail Fyodorovich Kvetsinsky (russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Квецинский) (January 3, 1866 – March 31, 1923), also known as Michael (von) Kwetzinsky ...
Chiefs of Staff
*1856-1858:
Fyodor Radetzky
Fyodor Fyodorovich Radetsky (Radetzky in German) (; 1820–1890) was a Russian general of German- Silesian extraction. He founded the city of Krasnovodsk (modern Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan) in 1869. He commanded the Russian forces at the 3rd stag ...
Commanders of the 2nd Brigade
*March-September 1908:
Konstantin Lukich Gilchevsky
References
{{Russian Empire Divisions
Infantry divisions of the Russian Empire
Military units and formations disestablished in 1918