Western Front (Russian Empire)
Encyclopedia
The Western Front was a major unit
of the Imperial Russian Army
during the First World War. It was formed on the base of the Northwestern Front
and disbanded in 1918.
Front (Russian Empire)
Front was the term used by the Russian Empire during the First World War for the largest fighting formation. The term was also later used by the Red Army Front was the term used by the Russian Empire during the First World War for the largest fighting formation. The term was also later used by...
of the Imperial Russian Army
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...
during the First World War. It was formed on the base of the Northwestern Front
Northwestern Front (Russian Empire)
The Northwestern Front was a military formation of the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War.It was established in August 1914. In August 1915 it was split into Northern Front and Western Front....
and disbanded in 1918.
Composition
Field Office (HQ)- 1st Army (August 1915 - April 1916)
- 2nd Army2nd Army (Russian Empire)The Russian Second Army was commanded by General Alexander Samsonov. It was destroyed at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914....
(August 1915 - the beginning of 1918) - 3rd Army3rd Army (Russian Empire)The Russian Third Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern theatre of war.Field management was established in July 1914 at the headquarters of the Kiev Military District. The unit was disbanded in the beginning of 1918...
(August 1915 - June 1916, July 1916 - early 1918) - 4th Army4th Army (Russian Empire)The Russian Fourth Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern Front.-Composition:At the beginning of the war, the army consisted of:...
(August 1915 - October 1916) - 10th Army10th Army (Russian Empire)The 10th Army of the Imperial Russian Army was a military unit engaged in the First World War.- Military Fronts and engagements in which the 10th Army participated :* Northwestern Front...
(August 1915 - the beginning of 1918) - Special Army (August - September 1916, November 1916 - July 1917)
Supreme Commanders
- 04.08.1915—18.08.1915 — Mikhail Alekseyev
- 23.08.1915—11.03.1917 — Alexei EvertAlexei EvertAlexei Evert was a Russian Imperial General in World War I, notable for his role as commander of the Russian Western Army Group in the Brusilov Offensive....
- 03.1917 — Vladimir Smirnov
- 31.03.1917—23.05.1917 — Vasily GurkoVasily GurkoVasily Iosifovich Gurko served for a brief period as a Chief-of-Staff of the Imperial Russian Army before being forced out of the country in exile following the October Revolution of 1917.- Biography :Son of the Iosif Gurko...
- 31.05.1917—30.07.1917 — Anton Denikin
- 31.07.1917—05.08.1917 — Pyotr Lomnovskii
- 05.08.1917—12.11.1917 — Pyotr Baluyev