1st Manchurian Army (Russian Empire)

1st Manchurian Army
Coat of arms of the Imperial Russian Army
active	September 1904 to February 1906
Country	Russian Empire
Armed forces	Imperial Russian Army
Type	army
Strength	about 100,000 men
Butcher	Russo-Japanese War Battle of the Shaho Battle of Sandepu Battle of Mukden
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

The 1st Manchurian Army ( Russian 1-й Маньчжурская армия , 1-j Mantschurskaja armija ) was a large unit of the Imperial Russian Army . It was established in September 1904 and dissolved in February 1906.

history

After the lost battle of Liaoyang , Tsar Nicholas II decided that the Russian forces deployed in Manchuria should no longer be commanded by a single commander and therefore divided the Manchurian Army into the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Manchurian Army . In September 1904 the 1st Manchurian Army was set up under the command of Lieutenant General Nikolai Linewitsch . In mid-January 1905 it comprised 127 battalions , 43 squadrons and 360 field guns and had a total strength of around 100,000 men. On March 15, 1905, General Alexei Kuropatkin took command of the army. She took part in the battles of the Shaho , Sandepu and Mukden .

After the end of the war, the 1st Manchurian Army was disbanded in February 1906.

structure

• 1st Army Corps
  • 22nd Infantry Division
  • 37th Infantry Division
• 2nd Independent Siberian Rifle Corps
  • 6th Siberian Rifle Division
  • 8th Siberian Rifle Division
• 3rd Siberian Army Corps
  • 4th Siberian Rifle Division
  • 7th Siberian Rifle Division
• 4th Siberian Army Corps
  • 2nd Siberian Rifle Division
  • 3rd Siberian Rifle Division

Commander in chief

	Surname	From	To
1.	General Nikolai Petrovich Linevich	September 1904	March 15, 1905
2.	General Alexei Nikolaevich Kuropatkin	March 15, 1905	February 1906

literature

• Rotem Kowner : Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War . Scarecrow, 2006, ISBN 0-8108-4927-5 .

Web links

• Organization of the Russian Armies in Mandchuria, 1904 , English

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kowner, p. 220
2. ^ Kowner, p. 221
3. ↑ Alexei Nikolajewitsch Kuropatkin : The Russian army and the Japanese war, being historical and critical comments on the military policy and power of Russia and on the campaign in the Far East. Volume 2, EP Dutton and Company, New York 1909, p. 258 ( digitized ).
4. ↑ Kowner, p. 220