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

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. It was established in August 1915 when the

Northwestern Front The Northwestern Front (Russian: ''Северо-Западный фронт'') was a military formation of the Red Army during the Winter War and World War II. It was operational with the 7th and 13th Armies during the Winter War. It was re-cre ...

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

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, but it was later moved to

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.Západní front (1915-1918)

Composition

* Field Headquarters * 1st Army (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 (August - September 1916, November 1916 - July 1917)

Commander of the armies of the Western Front

* 04.08.1915 — 18.08.1915 —

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 Ch ...

* 23.08.1915 — 11.03.1917 —

Alexei Evert Aleksei Ermolaevich Evert (russian: Алексей Ермолаевич Эверт; german: Alexei Ewert; also written ''Everth'' or ''Ewarts''; 4 March 185712 November 1918 or 10 May 1926) was an Imperial Russian general of Orthodox German ext ...

* 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 b ...

* 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 Pyotr Semyonovich Baluyev (21 June 1857 – 1923 in Moscow) was an army general in the Imperial Russian Army and commander of the Southwestern Front from 24 July 1917 to 31 July 1917. Biography Baluyev was an inspector and an instructor in the ...

* 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