The Northwestern Front (russian: Се́веро-За́падный фронт) was an

army group An army group is a military organization consisting of several field armies, which is self-sufficient for indefinite periods. It is usually responsible for a particular geographic area. An army group is the largest field organization handled ...

of the

Imperial Russian 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 ...

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 1914 and existed for one year prior to being divided into the Northern Front and

Western Front Western Front or West Front may refer to: Military frontiers * Western Front (World War I), a military frontier to the west of Germany *Western Front (World War II), a military frontier to the west of Germany *Western Front (Russian Empire), a maj ...

.Severozápadní front (1914-1915)
The armies subordinated to the Western Front took part in the Russian invasion of East Prussia at the beginning of the war.

Commanders of the Northwestern Front

* 19.07.1914–03.09.1914 — General Yakov Zhilinskiy * 03.09.1914–17.03.1915 — General

Nikolai Ruzsky Nikolai Vladimirovich Ruzsky (russian: Никола́й Влади́мирович Ру́зский; – October 18, 1918) was a Russian general, member of the state and military councils, best known for his role in World War I and the abdi ...

* 17.03.1915–04.08.1915 — General

Mikhail Alekseyev Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev (russian: Михаил Васильевич Алексеев) ( – ) was an Imperial Russian Army general during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Between 1915 and 1917 he served as Tsar Nicholas II's Chi ...

Armies deployed on the Northwestern Front

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 ...

(July 1914 – August 1915) * 2nd Army (July 1914 – August 1915) * 10th Army (August 1914 – August 1915) * 5th Army (September 1914 – August 1915) * 12th Army (January 1915 – August 1915) * 3rd Army (June 1915 – August 1915) * 4th Army (June 1915 – August 1915) * 13th Army (June 1915 – August 1915)

References

Fronts of the Russian Empire Military units and formations established in 1914 1914 establishments in the Russian Empire {{mil-hist-stub

Commanders of the Northwestern Front

Armies deployed on the Northwestern Front

See also

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