The Western Front (russian: Западный фронт) was an

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in the

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of the

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during the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

. It was established in August 1915 when the Northwestern Front was split into the Northern Front and Western Front, and was disbanded in 1918. From the time of its formation until the final year of its existence, the Western Front's field headquarters was in Smolensk, but it was later moved to

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.Západní front (1915-1918)

Composition

* Field Headquarters *

1st Army First Army may refer to: China * New 1st Army, Republic of China * First Field Army, a Communist Party of China unit in the Chinese Civil War * 1st Group Army, People's Republic of China Germany * 1st Army (German Empire), a World War I field Arm ...

(August 1915 - April 1916) * 2nd Army (August 1915 - the beginning of 1918) * 3rd Army (August 1915 - June 1916, July 1916 - early 1918) * 4th Army (August 1915 - October 1916) * 10th Army (August 1915 - the beginning of 1918) *

Special Army The Russian Special Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern Front. Field management was established in August 1916. The Army was named ''Special'' because it was thought that the name ''13th Army'' would bring bad lu ...

(August - September 1916, November 1916 - July 1917)

Commander of the armies of the Western Front

* 04.08.1915 — 18.08.1915 — Mikhail Alekseyev * 23.08.1915 — 11.03.1917 — Alexei Evert * 11.03.1917 — 31.03.1917 — Vladimir Smirnov * 31.03.1917 — 23.05.1917 —

Vasily Gurko Vasily Iosifovich Romeyko-Gurko (russian: Васи́лий Ио́сифович Роме́йко-Гу́рко; 20 May 1864 in Tsarskoye Selo – 11 February 1937) served for a brief period as a Chief-of-Staff of the Imperial Russian Army before ...

* 31.05.1917 — 30.07.1917 —

Anton Denikin Anton Ivanovich Denikin (russian: Анто́н Ива́нович Дени́кин, link= ; 16 December Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._4_December.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New St ...

* 31.07.1917 — 05.08.1917 — Pyotr Lomnovsky * 05.08.1917 — 12.11.1917 — Pyotr Baluyev * 12.11.1917 — 11.1917 — Vasily Kamenshchikov * 11.1917 — 1918 —

Alexander Miasnikian Alexander Fyodori Miasnikian or Myasnikov; russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Мяснико́в. Also spelled Myasnikyan. His patronymic is variously given as Asatur, Astvatsatur, Fyodor and Bogdan. (28 January February1886 – ...

Composition

Commander of the armies of the Western Front

References

See also