The Russian Danube Army was a

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Russian field army that fought on the

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. Field management was established in November 1916, when the

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was disbanded after the loss of the Cernavodă-

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line (following the

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) to the German-Bulgarian-Ottoman Army under command of

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. 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

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) **Trans-Amur Horse Division (General Georgiy Rozalion-Soshalskiy) **4th Armed Vehicle Division (Lieutenant Colonel Orest Zhelyabuzhskiy) **10th Armed Vehicle Detachment **11th Armed Vehicle Detachment **12th Armed Vehicle Detachment The commander of the Army was General

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. In December 1916, the Army was renamed to the 6th Army and became part of the Russian Romanian Front.

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